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480GB OWC Aura Pro 6G Solid State Drive for 2012-13 MacBook Pro with Retina display. High performance internal MLC flash storage with 7% over provisioned redundancy. 3 Year OWC Warranty. (OWCSSDAP12R480) Get $20 off of this purchase when combined with certain OWC On-The-Go drive enclosures! Click Here for qualifying items	Same Day	$549.99 OWC Discounted Price: $529.99

OWC

480GB Aura Pro 6G Solid State Drive

for 2012-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina™ display

The Aura Pro 6G SSD features industry leading SandForce® DuraClass™ Technologies:

DuraWrite™ 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 and drive life.

First and Only Complete Storage Upgrade

Once again, OWC provides Mac users the only upgrade solution that delivers higher performance, functionality, and reliability! When first introduced, the MacBook Pro with Retina display base model offered a 256GB SSD configuration with no upgrade option. And current base models start from 128GB to 256GB. Now, instead of being "factory locked", the OWC Aura Pro 6G gives you the freedom to upgrade your capacity to meet your storage needs. Just like other OWC upgrades, we include a free 'how-to' video to make this an easy and money-saving DIY upgrade.

Better by Design

"Mean Time To Failure" - We all know that nothing lasts forever. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get the most out of your investment. OWC SSD with DuraWrite™ Technology, optimizes writes to the flash memory over conventional controllers increasing the overall endurance and reliability of the complete SSD. Highly intelligent block management and wear leveling also extends the overall endurance. This adds up to a MTTF that is higher than most SSDs and enterprise class hard drives on the market today.

Highlights

The fastest SSD available built in the USA specifically for the MacBook Pro with Retina display!
Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling
OWC Free Install Videos make it easy to upgrade!
3 year OWC warranty

OWC's A Closer Look

Take a closer look at the OWC Aura
Pro Envoy 6G SSD Upgrade Kit.

Synchronous Interface NAND

To achieve the higher bandwidth potential of the SATA 6Gb/s bus standard, the OWC Aura Pro 6G SSDs utilize Tier-1 Synchronous NAND instead of commonly utilized Asynchronous NAND. Synchronous NAND enables reads and writes to be "synced" with the SSD processor's clock signal for maximum data throughput.

The Aura™ Pro is compatible with... Learn how to find your Mac's model ID

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display 2013)

(January, 2013)

Model ID: MacBookPro10,1

2.4GHz, 2.7GHz, 2.8GHz

Detailed specs

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Display 2013)

(January, 2013)

Model ID: MacBookPro10,2

2.5GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.9GHz, 3.0GHz

Detailed specs

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display 2012-2013)

(June, 2012)

Model ID: MacBookPro10,1

2.3GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.7GHz

Detailed specs

Install Videos

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Display 2012-2013)

(October, 2012)

Model ID: MacBookPro10,2

2.5GHz, 2.9GHz

Detailed specs

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OWC Aura Pro 6G SSD

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480GB Aura™ Pro 6G Specifications:

Specifications

Capacity¹

480GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components - 512GB
32GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity²

447GiB

NAND

Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) High-Performance Sync-NAND Flash

Controller

SandForce 2281 Series Processor with 7% Over Provisioning

SMART Attributes

Standard

Native Command Queuing

up to 32 commands

Manufacturer Model Number

OWCSSDAP12R480

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Reliability³

Data Reliability

ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

TRIM Support

OS Dependent

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

Less than 1 sector per 10¹⁶ bits read

Warranty

3 Year OWC Warranty
(Standard return policy applies.)

Performance

Sustained
Reads (up to)

501MB/s

Sustained
Writes (up to)

503MB/s

Random 4K Read⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Read Latency

less than 0.1ms

Write Latency

less than 0.1ms

Power

Active Power

Less than 3000mW (3.0W) expected maximum draw

Idle Power

Less than 1200mW (1.2W)

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, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
Based on SandForce processor operation.
Specifications provided by SandForce.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n OWCSSDAP12R480 UPC#: 794504769029

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OWC 480GB Aura™ Pro Solid State Drive Mfr P/N: OWCSSDAP12R480 OWC SKU: OWCSSDAP12R480 for MacBook Pro Retina display 2012-2013 3 Year OWC Warranty Ships: Same Day only $529.99