PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS – MAC
In testing with QuickBench 4.0, we benchmarked with both the Large File Test, as well as the Extended File Test. In the first, QuickBench determines read and write speeds of files graduating from 2-10MB while in the second, the file sizes increase significantly from 20-100MB.
Transfer speed highs of 91MB/s read and 59MB/s write were excellent to see in our MBA.
ZONEBENCH 2.0
Here we see much the same with ZoneBench 2.0, where the different transfer speeds associated to file sizes are monitored:
DISK SPEED TEST
Disk Speed test is the most familiar benchmark to most OSX users and has been around for some time, extending results from synthetic to video as well: