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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
MacBook Air 2017 m.2 SSD
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDr" data-source="post: 1790945" data-attributes="member: 140857"><p>Patrick,</p><p></p><p>The Apple SSD is on the SATA/SATA Express controller which operates at a much slower speed (x2 link width) and the NVMe drive is on the NVMExpress controller which operates at x4 link width.</p><p></p><p>That’s why you have the speed difference. After spending a few weeks with my NVMe drive and my Apple SSD drive currently installed... you really notice the difference in drive performance...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDr, post: 1790945, member: 140857"] Patrick, The Apple SSD is on the SATA/SATA Express controller which operates at a much slower speed (x2 link width) and the NVMe drive is on the NVMExpress controller which operates at x4 link width. That’s why you have the speed difference. After spending a few weeks with my NVMe drive and my Apple SSD drive currently installed... you really notice the difference in drive performance... [/QUOTE]
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