OWCs Aura Pro SSD provides up to nearly 8x the capacity over factory SSDs while offering Faster Performance vs. Factory Options. Get 3G speeds with 2010 Mac Book Air More SPEED get up to 275MB/s...68% faster than factory. More STORAGE get up to nearly 8x more capacity! More OPTIONS choose from 120GB, 240GB or 480GB models. Get 6G speeds with 2011 Mac Book Air More SPEED get up to 507MB/s...3x faster than factory. More STORAGE get up to nearly 8x more capacity! More OPTIONS choose from 120GB, 180GB, 240GB or 480GB models. The Aura Pro SSD line features industry leading Sand Force Dura Class™ Technologies: Dura Write extends the endurance of your Solid State Drive (SSD). Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD. Intelligent Read Disturb Management spreads the active read/write across the flash components eliminating data corruption caused by constant use. Intelligent " Recycling" for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted. RAISE (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup. Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention & drive life. Once again, OWC provides Mac users an upgrade path that delivers higher performance, functionality, & reliability! Whether you own or are considering a 2010 or 2011 base model 11& Prime; Mac Book Air with a 64GB Solid State Drive or the top of the line 13& Prime; model with a 256GB SSD, OWCs Aura Pro SSD offers higher speed than the factory SSD. Get up to 275MB/s speeds & up to 8X more storage capacity than factory options with your 2010 Mac Book. & get up to 507MB/s speeds & up to 8x more storage capacity than factory options with your 2011 Mac Book Air! & unlike the factory pre-configured models with no other SSD choices offered. Now thanks to OWC & the Aura Pro SSD line, you can buy the Mac Book Air you want today & enjoy the flexibility of upgrading for higher performance when you need it. Better by Design: " Mean Time To Failure"
- We all know that nothing lasts forever. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt get the most out of your investment. OWC SSD with Dura Write Technology, optimizes writes to the flash memory over conventional controllers increasing the overall endurance & reliability of the complete SSD. Highly intelligent block management & wear leveling also extends the overall endurance. With this technology, even MLC-based SSDs can operate for years in demanding use applications without daily write restrictions. This adds up to a MTTF that is higher than most enterprise class hard drives & SSDs on the market today. in addition, as there are no volatile memory elements in this storage device, the need for cache is completely negated. The drive is just that fast from the get-go! OWC SSD Maximum total flash capacity 512GB before 7% overprovisioning with 480GB actual usable capacity compared to Apple 64GB Flash option for 11.1" model. Random 4K write data rates of 57.56 for OWC SSD vs 18.49 for Apple factory stock SSD. Note: The Aura Pro 6G SSD achieves 6G speeds with compatible 2011 Mac Books & 3G speeds with 2010 Mac Books. 240GB Aura Pro Specifications: Specifications Capacity: 240GB useable capacity Total Flash Memory Components
- 256GB 16GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction Formatted Capacity
- 224 Gi B NAND
- Tier 1 Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory Controller
- Sand Force Processor with full SF2200 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set. SMART Attributes
- Standard RAID Support
- Yes Manufacturer Model Number
- OWCSSDAPAE240 Ro HS Compliant
- Yes Reliability: MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- 2, 000, 000 Data Reliability
- ECC Recovery: Up to 24 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector Security
- Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant TRIM Support
- Yes Nonrecoverable Read Errors
- Less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read Performance: Sequential Read 6 Gb/s (up to)
- 507MB/s Sequential Write 6 Gb/s (up to)
- 454MB/s Sequential Read 3 Gb/s (up to)
- 285MB/s Sequential Write 3 Gb/s (up to)
- 275MB/s Random 4K Read
- Up to 50, 000 IOPS Random 4K Write
- Up to 50, 000 IOPS Read Latency
- less than 0.1ms Write Latency
- less than 0.1ms Power Read Power
- 2.2 Watts Write Power
- 2.5 Watts Idle Power
- 0.09 Watts Power Nap compatible: Environmental (Operating) Temperature (°F)
- 32°F to 158°F Temperature (°C)
- 0°C to 70°C Environmental (Non-Operating) Temperature (°F) -67°F to 302°F Temperature (°C) -55°C to 150°C Acoustics Idle (Typical)
- 0.0 bels Seek (Typical)
- 0.0 bels 1GB = 1, 000, 000, 000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1 Gi B ≈ 1.074GB & refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier & Microsoft Windows OS. Specific application environments such as temperature & duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates. Based on Sand Force processor operation. Specifications provided by Sand Force.