If your laptop is old enough to use a 2.5-inch HDD as its storage drive, swapping it out for a SATA SSD will make a huge difference in overall responsiveness, right from the moment you press the ...

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And it’s not a small difference: The new M2-based laptop has SSD read speeds that are 50 percent slower, while write speeds take a 30 percent hit.

Base Model 13-Inch M2 MacBook Pro SSD Is 50% Slower Than M1 Model You'll need to spend $200 more to get storage as fast as the M1 MacBook Pro. By Matthew Humphries ...

Still, it’s important to remember that MacBooks are able to use SSD space as ‘virtual RAM’ when the laptop’s actual RAM is at 100% usage, so the performance ceiling of the 256GB M2 model ...

It is unknown what could be causing this drop in SSD performance. YouTuber Created Tech suggests that it could be because Apple is using a single NAND chip on the 2022 MacBook Pro M2 models.