For which workflows do SSD speed matter?

[Sagnet]

There's (understandably) a lot of noise at the moment, about the fact that the smaller SSD drives on the M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis have lower sequential read/write speeds than their M1 counterparts. (The M2s do have faster random r/w speeds, though, as far as I can tell.)

In which real life workflows will an end user notice the difference between say 3000 MB/s and 6000 MB/s?

 

[jdb8167]

There's (understandably) a lot of noise at the moment, about the fact that the smaller SSD drives on the M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis have lower sequential read/write speeds than their M1 counterparts. (The M2s do have faster random r/w speeds, though, as far as I can tell.)

In which real life workflows will an end user notice the difference between say 3000 MB/s and 6000 MB/s?

Sequential is for things like exporting videos or groups of edited photos. Random rw is practically everything else. That's why I wanted people to post on this thread.

When testing Apple silicon disk speed can you please use AmorphousDiskMark

 

[Fishrrman]

If you don't already know WHY you need or require the faster speed (between the "two-speeds of" Apple's latest SSDs) -- then you probably don't need it.

 

[Basic75]

The big and important jump was the one from HDDs to SSDs. Faster or slower SSDs do not make a noteworthy difference in most everyday applications. I'd bet that many people would be just as happy if their MacBook Air had a SATA SSD.