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. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for OWC 1.0TB Aura Pro X2 SSD for MacBook Air (Mid 2013-2017), and MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 - Mid 2015) Computers (OWCS3DAPT4MB10) at. Additionally, the Aura Pro X2 is calibrated to consume only 5.7W during operation and to run cool. Anandtech posted a review on the OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD A quote from the article: Apple was an early adopter of PCIe SSDs, introducing them in 2013 when the NVMe specification was still in its infancy and before any M.2 NVMe hardware was available. Not compatible with Apple Boot Camp on MacBookPro11,1 or MacBookAir6,1 or MacBookAir6,2.
Upgrade to macOS 10.13 or higher before installing Aura Pro X2. 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. 5 Year OWC Limited, Designed for macOS 10.13 and beyond: NOTE: Aura Pro X2 is designed for APFS file system available on macOS 10.13 High Sierra and later. In principle, this allows for not only higher capacities at lower prices, but also.
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 OWC Aura Pro X2 is based on much newer technology than the Apple original SSDs it is intended to replace. 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. This item: OWC 1.0TB Aura Pro X2 SSD for MacBook Air (Mid 2013-2017), and MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 - Mid 2015) Computers (OWCS3DAPT4MB10) 199.00 In Stock. 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.