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Re:New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model by pier25 on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:02PM (#20443447)
1.3GBps is still super fast.

It wasn't that long ago that we were using 7200rpm HDs which capped at around 110MB/s for large files.

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Re:New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model by xenospn on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:18PM (#20443588)
110MB/s was the super-best-case-scenario if you're doing sequential writes with exactly 1MB blocks, which almost never happened anyway.
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