The new Apple MacBook Air M3 has a significantly faster SSD

Significantly Improved SSD Speeds in the New MacBook Air M3: The Evolution of Storage in Apple's Macbook Series

Apple this week released the new MacBook Air M3, with the new MacBook Air M3. improved performance, Wi-Fi 6E and support for dual external displays.

As it turns out, Apple also addressed another problem that plagued the previous entry-level MacBook Air model: SSD storage speeds.

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The background here is that the entry-level model of the MacBook Air M2 with 256GB of storage offered slower SSD speeds than the higher configurations. This is because the entry-level model used a single 256GB storage chip, instead of two 128GB storage chips. This was a step behind the base model MacBook Air M1, which used two 128GB storage chips.

As offered for the first time by Gregory McFadden on Twitter, The new MacBook Air M3 offers significantly faster SSD speeds than the previous MacBook Air M2. A teardown conducted by Max Tech on YouTube confirms that this is because Apple is now using two 128GB storage chips

for the entry-level MacBook Air model, instead of a single 256GB drive.

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Therefore, the two 128GB NAND chips MacBook Air M3 can process tasks in parallel, significantly increasing data transfer speeds.

Tests conducted by Max Tech have revealed that the MacBook Air M3 can reach up to the write speeds of 2108 MB/s, instead of the MacBook Air M2's speeds of 1584 MB/s. For the reading speeds, the MacBook Air M3 reached the 2880 MB/s, while the MacBook Air M2 reached 1576 MB/s.

This suggests that the MacBook Air M3 offers SSD write speeds which is about 33% faster and reading speeds which is about 82% faster. These speeds match and sometimes exceed the speeds of the MacBook Air M1.

Source :: 9to5mac