Note that those benchmarks are very likely based on unencrypted APFS. APFS volumes do not use CoreStorage and use filesystem-level encryption instead: you'll n

Note that those benchmarks are very likely based on unencrypted APFS. APFS volumes do not use CoreStorage and use filesystem-level encryption instead: you'll notice that because it does not require reboot to turn on encryption anymore. Since many of us use Full Disk Encryption I'd prefer seeing encrypted FS benchmarks. As per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15333036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15333036 it doesn't look so promising: Speed in MB/s HFS+ HFS+ Encrypted APFS APFS Encrypted 1M WRITE 1375 1373 1372 933 1M READ 2446 2340 2162 1304 4K WRITE 852 797 502 378 4K READ 2106 1486 2156 1001