Hi all, I just bought my first Mac for use in my personal photo studio, a refurbed 2011 Mac Mini i5 2.5ghz. As I was setting up external drives and putting the mini through its paces, I ran a disk benchmark (BlackMagic Disk Speed Test) and got some pretty poor scores.
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My mini's internal drive hits roughly 40MB/s for both sequential read and sequential write. Am I correct in thinking that this is poor performance even for a 5400 rpm drive? The drive is mostly full; there are 50GB free. Would you recommend that I address this with Applecare?
Here are two other Minis (same 5400 rpm drive) hitting much higher marks:
Hdd Speed Test
Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2), 2.5 GHz, 8GB ram, 500GB 5400 rpm
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