- Go FASTER
Up to 41x Faster than factory hard drive models.
(Over 3x faster than factory SSD models) - Go BIGGER
Up to 4x more capacity than original factory SSD option** - Go ROUGHER
No moving Parts for reliability up to 100x higher than hard drives
Owners of MacBook Air Late 2008* to September 2010 models can now make their machines faster than the newest models by installing an OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA SSD.
- If you have "MacBookAir1,1", click here
- If you have "MacBookAir3,1; MacBookAir3,2", click here
- If you have "MacBookAir4,1; MacBookAir4,2", click here
Netbooks & Subnotebooks Mercury Aura Pro MBA
MacBook Air 2008/2009 Edition Mercury Aura Pro Express
MacBook Air 2010/2011 Edition
MacBook Air 2009 Shootout
Stock HD vs. OWC Aura Pro MBA SDD
See the massive increase in performance you'll get
when you install an OWC Aura Pro MBA SDD
in your 2008/2009 MacBook Air!
View the shootout now!
Why OWC SSD?
- Designed & built in the US from domestic & imported parts.
- Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant.
- Intelligent "recycling" for advanced free space management.
- Best in class error correction (ECC) and SandForce RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability without loss of transfer speed due to parity.
- SandForce® Processor with 7% over-provisioning maximizes read and write performance to greatly extend the endurance and overall reliability of the drive.
- Up to 100X greater data protection than what the highest rated enterprise class conventional hard disk drive (HDD) provides.
- SandForce DuraClass™ technology with Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling offers highest endurance, performance and power efficiency in a SSD.
Over Provisioning & Wear Management Explained
Some of the drive space in OWC SSDs are allocated for RAISE - which provides real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space.
Example: An OWC Pro SSD that's 240GB in size with 7% over-provisioning is actually a 256GB drive with 7% allocated for data management, and to maintain the drive's high-performance level.
Unlike most SSDs on the market today, the Mercury Pro family uses advanced DuraWrite™ wear-leveling and block management technologies to keep Read/Write performance at peak while others see performance fall.
Base Data Findings © Copyright 2010 DIGLLOYD INC (MacPerformanceGuide.com).
- SandForce Processor with full SF1200 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set
- Qualified for single drive and multiple drive usage.
- Standard
- Sustained Sequential Read: up to 285MB/s
- Sustained Sequential Write: up to 275MB/s
- Random 4KB: Up to 50,000 IOPS
- Tier 1/Grade A Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory
- less than 0.1ms
- less than 0.1ms
- 2,000,000 Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)
(based on SandForce processor operation)
- SATA I (1.5Gb/s) and SATA II (3.0Gb/s) supported, SATA 2.6 Compliant
- Native Command Queuing up to 32 commands
- SMART Command Transport
- Advanced TRIM Support in Windows 7
- 0ºC to +70ºC
- -55ºC to +150ºC
- Active: 2200mW (2.2W) Typical, up to 2500mW (2.5W)
- Inactive (DIPM): 90mW (.09W) Typical
- ECC Recovery: Up to 24 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
- Unrecoverable Read Errors: Less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read
- Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant
- Yes
- Unformatted.
- Designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts
- 2.16" W x 3.11" L x 0.19" H (55mm x 79mm x 5mm) - (not including ribbon cable)
