Our review drive is the 120GB capacity, but OWC offers an entire spread including 60GB, 240GB and a 480GB SSD coming soon. We show you how much installing an OWC Aura Pro MBA SSD improves the performance of a 2008/2009 MacBook Air. The Aura Pro X SSD is compatible with the folllwing Mac Models: Note: requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or. The Aura Pro delivers the familiar SF-1200 performance of sustained reads up to 285MB/s and reads up to 275MB/s.
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Also included are installation tools, a heat sink, a USB cable, and an Envoy Pro carrying case. The OWC Aura Pro X upgrade kit includes the award-winning Envoy Pro SSD enclosure, allowing you to easily repurpose the factory-installed Mac Pro SSD as an elegant aluminum-body USB 3.0 external drive for incredible portable performance. The Aura Pro X2 comes complete with an Envoy Pro external enclosure that enables you to use your Mac's original flash SSD as a fast, external USB drive with transfer speeds up to 426 MB/s. Additionally, the Aura Pro X2 is calibrated to consume only 5.7W during operation and to run cool. The drive reserves 7% of the overall capacity as free space to perform background maintenance tasks that optimize the health, performance, and endurance of your flash drive. The Aura Pro X2 is designed for macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later, taking full advantage of the advanced features of APFS including strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals.
The drive uses 3D TLC synchronous NAND flash memory with advanced SLC caching to deliver sequential data read and write speeds of up to 15 MB/s respectively�up to twice as fast as the factory-installed drives. OWC OWCS3DAPT4MB05 480GB Aura Pro X2 SSD for MacBook Air (Mid 2013-2017), and MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 - Mid 2015) Computers (S3DAPT4MB05) click to zoom in. Designed for installation in a Mac Pro desktop computer (late 2013), this internal flash/SSD drive upgrade features a PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.3 interface and a custom blade form factor.
Keep your edge with the Aura Pro X2 480GB NVMe SSD Upgrade Kit from OWC / Other World Computing.