Macos mojave performance on macbook pro 2012 non retina

#Macos mojave performance on macbook pro 2012 non retina install#

The amount of data read or written by each test is the same as for our usual Linux-based synthetic benchmark results.

#Macos mojave performance on macbook pro 2012 non retina install#

A clean install of MacOS 10.14 Mojave was used on each drive, and instead of having the tests access the drive as a raw block device, the tests were run against ordinary files residing on the same APFS filesystem as macOS and the testing software. Instead of running the OS off a separate drive, the drives under test were used as the only storage attached to the system. Without our ATSB tests to give a more real-world picture to counterbalance the idealized synthetic benchmark results, we chose to reconfigure the synthetic tests to use a somewhat more realistic configuration. This is the best way to measure a drive's raw performance capability without any interference and minimal overhead, but that's not usually a very realistic configuration. Our usual configuration for these tests has the drive under test as a secondary drive, with nothing on the drive other than the data written by the test itself. However, our suite of synthetic benchmarks uses the cross-platform FIO tool, so these tests could be easily adapted to run under macOS. Our AnandTech Storage Bench trace-based tests are Windows-only, and running them on a Mac in a Boot Camp configuration wouldn't give us much insight beyond running the same ATSB tests on our usual desktop testbed.