{"id":13398,"date":"2012-02-23T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:12:21","slug":"owc-announces-firmware-update-for-industry-leading-mercury-solid-state-drive-ssd-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13398-owc-announces-firmware-update-for-industry-leading-mercury-solid-state-drive-ssd-line\/","title":{"rendered":"OWC Announces Firmware Update For Mercury SSD Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13399\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PR_SSD2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PR_SSD2012.jpg 280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PR_SSD2012-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PR_SSD2012-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PR_SSD2012-120x120@2x.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Other World Computing\u00a0announced today it has released a new firmware version\u2014MP5.0.1\u2014to deliver optimum performance and stability from its industry-leading, SandForce Driven\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/\">Mercury Solid State Drive line<\/a> when installed in the latest Macs and PCs. The GUI driven, Mac experience friendly and bootable updater for Solid State Drives is freely available from OWC for use exclusively with OWC Mercury Extreme\u00a0Pro, Mercury Electra, and Mercury Aura\u00a0Pro SSD models.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Only Mac Friendly Update Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OWC\u2019s proprietary firmware updater, now available with support for all of Apple\u2019s latest Mac models, as well as nearly all prior machines, eliminates the need for a PC, ownership of Windows or other operating system, or the creation of a specially designated drive partition that many SSD updaters have required. Mac users only need to <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/tech_center\/OWC\/SSD\">download the updater from OWC\u2019s site<\/a>, obtain and burn a DVD, and then boot from that DVD to launch an easy to use, point and click GUI for installing the latest firmware revision to their OWC Mercury SSD. OWC\u2019s Mac-friendly firmware updater continues OWC\u2019s unmatched firmware update support for Mac users of SandForce-based SSDs. OWC also provides update support for PCs running the Windows or Linux OS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We recognized SSDs would be an ever-evolving product, so we made it our priority to ensure users of OWC Mercury brand SSDs would immediately be able to utilize the benefit from any hardware and\/or firmware updates,<\/em>\u201d said Larry O\u2019Connor, Founder and CEO, Other World Computing. \u201c<em>As such, this latest firmware update is quick, easy and performed with no guesswork or doubt via the only point and click Mac-friendly updater; as well as standard upgrade packages for Windows and Linux Operating System users<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other World Computing\u00a0announced today it has released a new firmware version\u2014MP5.0.1\u2014to deliver optimum performance and stability from its industry-leading, SandForce Driven\u00a0Mercury Solid State Drive line when installed in the latest Macs and PCs. 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