SSD Speed Variations in 2014 MacBook Air...

May 6, 2014, 12:54 PM

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/06/ssd-2014-macbo...

For many years, Apple has used different suppliers for the solid-state drives (SSDs) in its MacBook Air models, with drive performance varying among manufacturer brands. A recent study by Macworld demonstrated rather dramatic differences in SSD read and write speeds between tested 2013 and 2014 models, but at the time it was unclear whether the poorer performance for the 2014 models was still simply due to drive brand variances or if there was something specific to the 2014 machines causing an o...