240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior

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240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior

PCIe Solid-state Drive

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Mfr P/N: SSDPHW2R240 OWC SKU: OWCSSDPHW2R240

240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior
240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior
  • 240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior
  • 240GB OWC Mercury Accelsior

No drivers* are required making Accelsior a simple Plug and Play bootable solution.

  • Easy, no drivers* required installation
  • Dual LSI® SandForce SF-228X processors
  • Sustained Data Transfer Rates of up to 758MB/s read and 743MB/s write
  • May also be used in external Thunderbolt expansion chassis.
  • Features High-Performance, Tier 1 Synchronous-NAND
  • Up to 960GB Capacity Today
  • Upgradeable to Future Released Higher Capacities
  • 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty
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One Of The Easiest Upgrades You Can Install
If you can install a memory module, you'll find adding this high-performance card into your desktop/tower machine a breeze. By utilizing the fastest data interface available in a Apple Mac® Pro or PC-the PCIe slot-Mercury Accelsior offers nearly 3x faster performance than a 3Gb/s SSD...and beyond even 6Gb/s SSDs!
Experience supercharged speeds up to 756MB/s read and 673MB/s write and stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. With up to 100K IOP/s, business critical applications are given an instant boost while Accelsior's extreme performance speed dramatically reduces game level-loading, object streaming, and save times for more play time and less waiting.
Mac and PC Bootable with No Driver* Setup
Bootable on PCs and the only Mac-bootable/supported PCIe SSD available, Mercury Accelsior delivers near instant startup and app launching. And with a driverless* setup, it's truly a Plug and Play, high-performance solution
A More Efficient & Reliable Computing Experience
Massively boosting data transfer rates is only one of the benefits to the Mercury Accelsior. With its SandForce Driven™ SSDs, you'll enjoy a more responsive and productive computing experience, cooler and quieter processing, and greater energy efficiency compared to standard hard drives. Those benefits don't come at the expense of reliability however; SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability.
User Friendly, Professionally Robust
Simple enough for mainstream business use, yet robust enough for professional multimedia production environments, the OWC Mercury Accelsior is the clear choice for pro audio and video studios producing HD-quality work. This game changing performance upgrade is designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts and backed by a three-year warranty.
The Mercury SSD line 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.
Accelsior Now Supports Sleep Mode!
We're pleased to offer this driver that enables Accelsior to be used as an OS X start-up/boot volume in a Mac Pro or Xserve.

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  • 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

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4.96 out of 5

24 out of 24 (100%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Made my 2008 Mac Pro run really fast.

I don't notice much of a performance difference for light tasks, between my 2018 15" MacBook Pro, and my 2008 Mac Pro, with this new PCIe SSD. When it comes to the little animations, and all the little things the OS does, the experience feels identical to my new MBP. To make this a viable option as a boot volume on an 08 MP, it has to be selected from an already working

I would recommend this product to a friend!

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HaitianDalmation, 
Feb, 20 2019 
review of: (*) 480GB OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Storage Solution for Mac Pro (2008-2012) & PC
  • Reviewer:HaitianDalmation
  • From:Cherry Hill, NJ
  • Age:18-24
  • Experience:IT Professional
  • Owned Product:less than a month
Fast, reliable, bootable flash drive

Have used product & upgraded model for past 3-years ; extremely fast performance as a primary boot drive for my 2012 MacPro. Other than some "sleep" related issues with the original model, and driver updates needed in order to upgrade from OS X Mountain Lion to El Captan, this SSD has performed reliably and good performance.

I would recommend this product to a friend!

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Jan, 12 2016 
  • From:Florida
  • Age:55-65
  • Experience:Home User
  • Owned Product:over 6 months
Great PCIe drive

I love this thing. Greatly improved the performance of a 2009 Mac Pro. Just good stuff at OWC. Thanks

I would recommend this product to a friend!

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Nov, 29 2015 
review of: (*) 960GB OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Storage Solution for Mac Pro (2008-2012) & PC
  • From:Torrance, Ca
  • Age:Over 65
  • Experience:Home User
  • Owned Product:over 6 months
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