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What is the maximum ssd reading that a macbook air 13 2017 A1466 with i5 can produce
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From a quick research, this is what I can see:
I'm going to assume that you're wanting to know about transfer speeds of external drives. Your internal drive (20gbps) can be as fast as 1500MB/s read/write, or it might be a bit slower, like half of that, depending on the size of the drive.
I don't know, but I don't think you can swap the internal drive to get a higher speed. I think the speed is determined by the speed of the PCIe bus.
You have 1 Thunderbolt port that can (unless you're using it for an external display) deliver 20gbps (Gb, GigaBITS, not GB, gigaBYTES), that means up to 1500MB/s often less.
Then you have a couple of USB 3.0 ports (5gbps), and in my experience that gives me around 300MB/s r/w speed, maybe a little more.
For context; 300MB/s is really not bad at all. Remember spinning HDs? The fastest ones with 7200rpm had 70MB/s r/w or lower.
Do you find the speed of the internal drive too slow? What are you hoping to achieve?
Here's a free app to measure disk speed with:
I'm going to assume that you're wanting to know about transfer speeds of external drives. Your internal drive (20gbps) can be as fast as 1500MB/s read/write, or it might be a bit slower, like half of that, depending on the size of the drive.
I don't know, but I don't think you can swap the internal drive to get a higher speed. I think the speed is determined by the speed of the PCIe bus.
You have 1 Thunderbolt port that can (unless you're using it for an external display) deliver 20gbps (Gb, GigaBITS, not GB, gigaBYTES), that means up to 1500MB/s often less.
Then you have a couple of USB 3.0 ports (5gbps), and in my experience that gives me around 300MB/s r/w speed, maybe a little more.
For context; 300MB/s is really not bad at all. Remember spinning HDs? The fastest ones with 7200rpm had 70MB/s r/w or lower.
Do you find the speed of the internal drive too slow? What are you hoping to achieve?
Here's a free app to measure disk speed with:
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video! Simply click the start button and Disk Speed Test will write test your disk using large blocks of data, and then display the result. Disk Speed Test will continue to...
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I have a 128 SSD, I want to increase it to 512 and therefore I want to know what the read and write speed should be, so as not to buy a too slow SSD and not overpay for an overly expensive one that will not reveal its potential.From a quick research, this is what I can see:
I'm going to assume that you're wanting to know about transfer speeds of external drives. Your internal drive (20gbps) can be as fast as 1500GB/s read/write, or it might be a bit slower, like half of that, depending on the size of the drive.
I don't know, but I don't think you can swap the internal drive to get a higher speed. I think the speed is determined by the speed of the PCIe bus.
You have 1 Thunderbolt port that can (unless you're using it for an external display) deliver 20gbps (Gb, GigaBITS, not GB, gigaBYTES), that means up to 1500GB/s often less.
Then you have a couple of USB 3.0 ports (5gbps), and in my experience that gives me around 300GB/s r/w speed, maybe a little more.
For context; 300MB/s is really not bad at all. Remember spinning HDs? The fastest ones with 7200rpm had 70MB/s r/w or lower.
Do you find the speed of the internal drive too slow? What are you hoping to achieve?
Here's a free app to measure disk speed with:
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video! Simply click the start button and Disk Speed Test will write test your disk using large blocks of data, and then display the result. Disk Speed Test will continue to...apps.apple.com
And therefore I am interested in what the maximum read and write speed can be for my 2017 MacBook Air.
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I suggest that you make sure the firmware is fully updated. Check in System Information/Hardware Overview.
I have one of those 13-inch, 2017 MacBook Air, and the firmware should be 489.0.0.0.0
If not, install the latest Monterey on the OEM SSD, which should result in updated firmware. THEN, replace the SSD with whatever third-party SSD. (I have a Solidigm 512GB, which gives me about 1350 MB/s R/W -- fast enough for me)
I have one of those 13-inch, 2017 MacBook Air, and the firmware should be 489.0.0.0.0
If not, install the latest Monterey on the OEM SSD, which should result in updated firmware. THEN, replace the SSD with whatever third-party SSD. (I have a Solidigm 512GB, which gives me about 1350 MB/s R/W -- fast enough for me)
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SSD Upgrade Kits for MacBook Air 2013 - 2017
Upgrade your 2013-2017 MacBook Air hard drive to an SSD for 16x the capacity and 5.8x faster speeds of the original drive. Kit includes all tools needed.
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It's not the current version, which is 12.7.6.
Download the current version installer, make a bootable USB from that. Boot to that installer USB. Install the update--to your OEM SSD installed in your 2017 MBAir.
Check your firmware version, both before you install Monterey, and after the install. You may find that it is already at version 289.0.0.0.0, in that case, you don't need to proceed with the Monterey install, as the firmware is already current. Continue on with whatever replacement SSD you want to use.