{"id":57042,"date":"2019-12-20T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=57042"},"modified":"2019-12-23T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T05:22:30","slug":"fastest-owc-ssd-ever-built-the-accelsior-4m2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/57042-fastest-owc-ssd-ever-built-the-accelsior-4m2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Fastest OWC SSD Ever Built \u2013 the Accelsior 4M2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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High-performance M.2 NVMe SSD solution delivers 6,000MB\/s<\/em><\/strong> real-world speed for the 2019 Mac Pro and PC Towers.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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OWC today announced the all-new Accelsior 4M2 ultra high-performance PCIe M.2 NVMe internal SSD<\/a> that delivers over 6,000MB\/s real-world speeds in capacities up to 8TB. The Accelsior 4M2 is the fastest SSD ever built by OWC and is the perfect storage solution for large format video editing, VR\/AR\/MR environments, extreme gaming, compute-intensive applications and other high bandwidth needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incredible Versatility <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whether you have the Mac Pro 2019, a Mac Pro 2012 or 2010, or PC tower, the Accelsior 4M2 delivers the blazing performance, unstoppable reliability and stunning versatility that are the hallmarks of OWC\u2019s brand reputation. As a half-length x8\/x16 compatible card, this game-changer offers true versatility, so users can install it in full-length PCIe 3.0 or 2.0 slots as well. Even Thunderbolt 3-equipped laptops can experience the performance boosting benefits of Accelsior 4M2 with Plug-and-Play ease using the OWC Mercury Helios 3S PCIe expansion chassis (sold separately). In other words, it\u2019s incredibly versatile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insane Performance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Accelsior 4M2 was designed to address each of its four NVMe blade style drives at full x4 PCIe speeds, so whether users are running a single drive on the Accelsior 4M2 or running four in JBOD, each drive has the capability to run at full speed. Oh, and if over 6,000MB\/s of real-world speed and 8TB of capacity isn\u2019t enough to meet the task, users can RAID two Accelsior 4M2 cards together to experience out of this world exponential performance. With NVMe SSDs powering its heartbeat, Accelsior 4M2 offers the fastest data rates ever delivered by an OWC SSD. In other words, it\u2019s insanely fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy and Complete Drive Health Monitoring, TRIM, and Performance Management<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Accelsior 4M2 includes SoftRAID Pro to ensure you get the maximum, steady performance, protection and monitoring against drive failure, and plug and play simplicity. SoftRAID is the only solution with robust drive health monitoring and reporting capabilities and full TRIM support for attached external and PCIe slot NVMe drives under MacOS. SoftRAID\u2019s easy setup makes it customize storage to the RAID volume(s) your applications need by helping you through the entire process. Ready to go Plug-and-Play or just decide what you\u2019re use requirements are for desired RAIDs and how much space to allocate to it. It’s that simple to create your preference of speed and\/or redundancy attributes of your data volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change Your Reality<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Accelsior 4M2 offers performance gains in so many diverse ways that it will literally change the paradigm for storage applications. For 4K and 8K video and VR environments it allows streaming and editing without a glitch, plus faster previews, renders, and processing in VFX programs. Keep page scenery and textures looking sharp and flowing uninterrupted in virtual reality environments and ensure augmented reality visualizations look life-like. Hard core gamers can change game levels seamlessly and play flight\/driving\/MMO games with continuously changing scenery and heavily personal preference modded games without micro-stuttering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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