MacBook Pro M5 has an incredibly fast SSD that even Apple undersold with its marketing
Apple’s MacBook Pro M5 has a faster-than-expected SSD
Apple said it was ‘up to 2x’ faster than its M4 predecessor
In fact, it’s well over twice as fast, at least for read speeds, and possibly more like 3x as quick in some scenarios
The MacBook Pro M5 really does have a seriously speedy SSD, and in fact, Apple has underplayed the performance of the drive in its laptop.
9to5Mac noticed that while Apple boasted that the new MacBook Pro offers “up to 2x faster SSD performance” compared to its M4-based predecessor, Max Tech on YouTube ran a whole battery of tests, including storage, with a very surprising result for the read speeds.
When it came to write speeds, the MacBook Pro M5 (with 512GB drive) achieved 6,068MB/s in the Blackmagic disk speed test compared to 3,293MB/s for the M4 model. So, that’s about 1.85x faster and in line with Apple’s ‘up to 2x’ claim (remember, ‘up to’ means a ballpark figure for a best-case scenario).
However, for read speeds, the SSD in the M5 absolutely blew away the drive in the M4, hitting 6,323MB/s compared to 2,031MB/S – so the new laptop is over 3x faster, in fact, in this test.
M4 vs M5 MacBook Pro ULTRA Comparison – Holy SMOKES, Apple! – YouTube
In short, Apple has underrated the speed on offer here, and the generational jump in these drives for read performance. During our testing at the Future Labs – on 1TB SSDs from these MacBook Pro models, as opposed to 512GB – we found similar results.
Indeed, we recorded write speeds that were actually closer to 2x faster with the M5 (around 1.95x) compared to M4 model, but read speeds were more like 2.3x faster for the M5 – which is still extremely impressive, and outguns the ‘up to 2x’ expectation Apple gave us.
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