In as much as the new Core i7-based MacBook Pro has been described as being toasty, an article over on DIGILLOYD offers benchmarks citing strong SATA write performance on the new model.
Per the article, the April 2010 MacBook Pro has top-flight performance on both internal SATA ports via the following benchmarks:
DIGLLOYD tracked these benchmarks courtesy of its diglloydTools 2.0 package, which is currently available for US$40.
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