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A comment on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by syspec on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:34PM (#28909472)
If you don't max out the HDD space, but max out all the portions which effect performance, it only about half that.
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by stouset on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:59PM (#28909934)
IIRC bigger SSDs in previous generations had higher performance.
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by wtallis on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:12PM (#28910988)
That's fundamental to how NAND flash memory works. For high-end PCIe Gen4 SSD product lines, the 1TB models are usually not quite as fast as the 2TB models, and 512GB models can barely use the extra bandwidth over PCIe Gen3. But 2TB is usually enough to saturate the SSD controller or host interface when using PCIe Gen4 and TLC NAND.
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