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Stibium 1.0 will now benchmark your SSDs

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Improved tests, statistical analysis, and interface, together with a 21 page Help book detailing its range of tests in 5,000 words. Ready to use for real.

January 11, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to benchmark your storage using Stibium

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Detailed tutorial steps you through getting accurate and reproducible benchmarks for your disks. Also further projects and tests you can try.

January 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Disk read and write tests go random in Stibium 1.0b6

Now with proper random write and read tests, sophisticated analysis including group medians and linear regression, and detailing reporting.

January 4, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Getting SSD performance data which make sense

Can M1 Macs really defy the laws of physics and read files from SSD at around 12 GB/s? Or are their performance improvements more modest?

December 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Securing sensitive data

Securing sensitive data from access by others, and safeguarding it from loss of damage, is common. Solutions range from encrypted images to specialist external disks.

December 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Internal SSDs can read files at extreme speed

Using 140 files of sizes 10 KB – 2 GB, the M1 read files significantly faster than a T2 Mac, but the latter wrote files slightly quicker. Highest read rate on the M1 was 10.8 GB/s, which seems almost incredible.

December 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

It looks like the M1 SSD is faster than those in Intel Macs, but…

A new version of Stibium which performs series tests raises further questions about benchmarking SSDs on Intel and M1 Macs. And is an X5 worth the extra cost?

December 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk: it is possible

If you’ve been unable to create a bootable external disk to use with your M1 Mac, this explains what you need and its limitations and quirks.

December 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Measuring performance of different SSDs using Stibium 1.0b3

A new version using Mach absolute time brings accuracy to a few microseconds, and a Help page. Tests progress well, and continue to make interesting comparisons.

December 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Comparing SSD performance between T2 and M1 Macs with Stibium

Developing an app to assess the real-world performance of SSDs: initial results from a T2 Mac and an M1 Mac mini are different but there’s no simple answer to which is the faster.

December 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

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