Please keep in mind all the testing and by doing this to the extreme: filling up your new SSDs is affecting the lifetime, not my much, but I think it is unnecessary to verify whether a certain drive drops in speed for writing if it is going to get filled. My motto is to not even fill up an drive at all, so it is best practice to get what is way beyond the capacity you may need or use and just do not bother about speed at all.
Nobody asks people to fill their drives... but the point is, that everyone does fill their drive to some extent.
In this thread, verifying write speed let people know what the real speed of drives will be.
Anything you buy that is not original Apple will be faster and in the long run, you will not actually notice the speed difference anyways, but it is of course great that a speed bump is possible by exchanging the SSD that the system originally came with.
That's no true at all..
To say such a thing you may never have tested a slow QLC, dramless, NVMe drives like the Crucial P1, the Intel 600p or even the Crucial P3 / P3 Plus that is sold today.
This last drive announces itself as being able to do 5000MB/s read, 4000MB/s write...
Yeah, sure, but this is only true
inside the SLC cache and
on PCIe4.0 machines
Such drives
slows down to 100MB/s once SLC cache is filled.
SSUBX and Polaris Apple drives were MLC drives with RAM cache,
On machines without PCIe 3.0, they had nearly unbeatable constant read speed of 1400MB/s and write speed of 900MB/s for low consumption.
I would also advise not to try and sell original Apple pulled drives, keep them in case of an emergency, so that you can quickly swap the original drive in and you immediately can re-use your system. This is what I plan to do with all of my upgrades.
Enjoy the larger capacity, but relax a bit regarding speed ratings
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I'd agree with that last sentence, but, sorry, I'm not very relax with a 100MB/s NVMe write speed
The point is not to get worked up fighting over a few MB/s difference..
But when you swap an Apple MLC SSD capable of writing comfortably in all cases, even when full, at 900MB/s, for a QLC drive that has no RAM, has a write speed 10 times slower than Apple drives, and makes the system totally unresponsive when Dropbox, Google Drive or Synology Drive synchronize files, you have to wonder...
Hynix disks have no such shortcomings, and cost very little.
All you need to do is buy the right capacity and speed hard drives at the right price.