burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Early testing by YouTube Mac experts is showing that Apple is going cheap on their use of SSD NAND chips. They are using ONE 256GB chip instead of TWO 128GB chips in the base M2 models. The same is true of the base M2 Pro MacBook Pros... They are using ONE 512GB chip instead of TWO 256GB chips.

What this does is prevent them from using a super fast RAID array setup for the storage. Base M1 model I/O is twice as fast as base M2 model I/O. Base M1 Pro model I/O is twice as fast as base model M2 Pro I/O. The consequence is that copying to or from the M2 or M2 Pro SSD takes twice as long in the base models. Depending upon what you are doing, this may, or may not, have a negative effect on performance. Processor-intensive operations are still faster on M2/M2 Pro models.

If you want maximum performance from an M2 machine, get double the base memory configuration, OR MORE. That will give you the RAID memory configuration.

It will be interesting to see what MaxTech finds when they test and analyze the performance of the 12 M2 Macs they have ordered.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I like Max Tech and that other guy from Australia. He's wearing glasses now.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Are you thinking of Shane at Geeky Nerdy Techy? I watch his reviews.

There is a more popular Australian reviewer and photographer living in America — Matt Granger. He tests gear and teaches travel, nature, boudoir, and fashion photography.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I didn't think Matt (formerly "That Nikon Photographer") had a home. He always seems to be in a foreign country.

Created Tech - https://www.youtube.com/@CreatedTech

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

I know what you are saying but my thought was if you have a larger storage disk it would take longer to search, I have 20T of storage (and 128 GB of memory).

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

20TB? Yes, that is too much storage.

128GB of RAM is okay, though.