Sorry I'm a brand new Mac user coming over from PC and am having a hard time understanding how a dual core, 4GB RAM device could have much higher read and write scores. after the firmware update i was curious to see if the performance for my. When 10,8 came out I did the upgrade and then the firmware update released later on. It came with lion and I installed the Disk Speed Test and it worked perfectly fine for the internal SSD as well as other connected drives. Sustained disk read speeds run by Max Tech using the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test showed a drop from about 2,900MB/s in the M1 MacBook Pro to 1,446MB/s in the M2 MacBook Pro. HD-PA256TU3S on MacBook Pro with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test v2.1. I own an 2011 MacBook Air with i7 and 256 ssd. Please visit the main page of Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on Software Informer Disk Speed Test writes large chunks of data to your chosen disk and then reads that data, giving you a real-world read/write speed in MB/s and the output will look like this: img bs64M count1 oflagdsync Random size test in bytes-v: Verbose output-count 1-50 Specify the number of iterations to perform Random size. DVC Built Clevo P775DM3-G Laptop with UHD screen, 7700K CPU4.9Ghz, Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GPU, G-Sync UHD screen, 500GB M.2 Primary, 1x 480GB SSD, 1x1TB M.2, 1x 2TB Video drives. Download Blackmagic Disk Speed Test for macOS 10.10.0 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Just go to the support page and download it. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots and learn more about Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. What exactly is this measuring? Does this mean her Macbook is that much faster than mine? I've seen new Macbook Pro's hitting over 1600 Mb/s so I'm wondering if these computers are really 2-4 times faster at working with audio/video production. Buffalo Technologys MiniStation Thunderbolt Portable SSD offers amazing speed. Re: BlackMagic Speed Test Disk utility for Windows. My gf on the other hand has an early 2015 Macbook Air (1.6 Ghz dual core, 4gb RAM, 128 GB flash storage) and her Blackmagic results show over 1000 Mb/s on read and write. (Some RAID 0 setups have speeds around 900 Mb/s from what I've seen on youtube as well) This seems on par with most youtube video results who have a similar setup after upgrading their Mid-2012 MacBook Pro. It feels blazing fast and my Blackmagic disk speed test results measure around 400-450 Mb/s for both read and write. So I recently bought a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro (2.6 Ghz quad-quad core) that was maxed out with an SSD and 16GB of Ram.