You can easily detect when a device is performing subpar and, and with the spinning disk, you can see is transfer speeds deteriorates over time. Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality products for the feature film, post and broadcast industries including URSA cameras, DaVinci Resolve and ATEM switchers. I have run Blackmagic on USB 2, thumb drives, USB 3, and USB C devices to see if I’m getting my money’s worth.
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On an older MacBook Pro the rates I see are 500 MB/S both read and write, as you would expect. I have tried this on my older mackbooks with SSD and they do scale down as the device is older. On my 2016 MacBook Pro, I am seeing speeds like 1,000+ MB/s write, and 1100+ MB/S read. Since the “volume” is on your Startup Disk, you will see how fast it drive is. In Blackmagic select the disk image mounted. Mount the volume (if it is not already mounted). 1 Someone knows alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. Make it big enough for Blackmagic to work with (7+ GB) and name it what you will. Alternatives to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Thread starter eurasian Start date Sort by reaction score Forums. Disk Speed Test is an easy to use tool to quickly measure and certify your disk performance for working with high quality video Simply click the start butto. Create a disk image (.dmg) using the disk utility specifying file->new image->blank image. I found a workaround that will report the rates of the Startup Disk. Indicates that I can only read or write PAL or NTSC which seems wrong to me. It is showing about 95mbps write and 105mbps read. When Blackmagic tries to read the Startup Disk, you get the message that the device is not writeable, hence you cannot rate the the transfer rates of the drive. I have tried this on a folder (as it wont let me access c drive) and it is throwing up results that look way too low to me for a new laptop. Blackmagic has been updated to adequately report the speed of SSD devices.