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DIY Bundle

2.0TB OWC 6G SSD
and NewerTech AdaptaDrive

Mac / PC
Mercury Extreme® Pro 6G SSD and AdaptaDrive Kit
A 2.5" Drive for your 3.5" Drive Bay
A perfect combination
Experience the Extreme performance of an OWC SSD upgrade with this easy DIY AdaptaDrive and Mercury Extreme Pro Kit. AdaptaDrive enables you to install the high-speed Mercury SSD in an available 3.5" SATA drive bay in moments, delivering blistering transfer speeds and outstanding reliability.
Fast and reliable solid-state storage
With sustained reads up to 559MB/s and writes up to 527MB/s, up to 100X greater data protection than enterprise class Hard Disk Drives, and RAISE technology for RAID like data protection and reliability, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD line delivers unbeatable performance, that's backed by a 5 year OWC SSD Limited Warranty.

Unlike traditional hard disk drives, OWC SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, and highly rugged storage solution that also offers near instantaneous system response.
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Maintains highest performance while offering ultimate convenience
The NewerTech AdaptaDrive has been benchmark test proven to deliver the same data transfer rates as is experienced when a drive is connected directly to the SATA data bus. The AdaptaDrive doesn't create a bottleneck or any performance throttling...it delivers pure data pass-through performance and drive use convenience from any 2.5" SATA 1.5Gb/s, 6Gb/s, or 6Gb/s hard drive or SSD.

Release Candidate (RC) firmware set

There are two kinds of firmware for SSDs Mass Production (MP) and Release Candidate (RC). Prior to an MP firmware release, there are beta firmware releases and an RC firmware release. Often, the RC is the same as the MP release, however there can be small changes and bug fixes made between the two. OWC has evaluated the RC for the 6Gb/s SandForce 2281 Processor and found it to be stable with no issues reported during our testing. However, as with any evolutionary product, issues may surface as different usages and configurations are employed and it is important to understand that there will be further updates and revisions.

Since no firmware update is currently offered for the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD, no update page exists. To see the typical steps involved with a self performed field firmware update, please visit our 3Gb/s product update page at: http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=sf_firmware.html

It is important to note that the current firmware update tool requires the use of Windows XP/Vista/7. OWC is currently working on a Mac OS based update tool, but we do not have an exact availability date.

2.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller
Phison PS3112-S12 with 7% over-provisioning
NAND
Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
Form Factor
2.5-inch 7mm
Interface
SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Capacity
1920GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components – 2048GB
128GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction
Formatted Capacity
1788GiB
RAID Support
Yes
SMART Attributes
Standard attributes supported
Native Command Queuing
up to 32 commands
Manufacturer Model Number
S3D7P6GS2.0
RoHS Compliant
Yes
Format
Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)
0.7 cm (0.3 in)
OWC 7mm – 9.5mm Adapter
1 included (buy additional)
Width (max)
7.0 cm (2.8 in)
Length (max)
10.0 cm (3.9 in)
Weight
77.0 g (0.17 lbs)

Reliability

TRIM Support
OS Dependent

Performance

Sequential Reads (Max)
Up to 550 MB/s
Sequential Writes (Max)
Up to 530 MB/s
Sequential 4K Read
Up to 100,000 IOPS
Sequential 4K Write
Up to 90,000 IOPS

Power

Active
Write: 2700mW (2.7W) Maximum draw

Environmental (Operating)

Altitude
-304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
Temperature (°F)
32°F to 158°F
Temperature (°C)
0°C to 70°C

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Altitude
304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
Temperature (°F)
-40°F to 185°F
Temperature (°C)
-40°C to 85°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)
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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.


AdaptaDrive Specifications:

NewerTech Part Number

  • ADPTADRV

Drive Inteface

  • Fully SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gb/s) compatible
  • SATA Revision 2.0 (6Gb/s) and 1.0 (1.5Gb/s) compatible

Drive Supported

  • (1) 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s drive

Material

  • Black painted Aluminum

Dimensions

  • Height: 0.4 in (1.0 cm)
  • Width: 4.0 in (10.2 cm)
  • Length: 5.8 in (14.7 cm)

Weight (Without Drives

  • 3.5 oz (99.2 g)
Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n ADPTA6G1TB UPC#: 812437028362

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Includes

  • (1) 2.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD
  • (1) AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket
    • (4) 2.5" drive to bracket mounting screws
    • (4) Bracket to 3.5" drive bay mounting screws
    • AdaptaDrive Assembly Manual & User Guide

Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use - but should the need occur - we're proud to provide a superior level of support and service coverage to our customers.

5 Year OWC SSD Limited Warranty

5 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty

Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.9 / 5 133 out of 140 (95%) reviewers would recommend this product
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Reviewer: TravisAllen Location: Rochester, Mn Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Good enough for ME to write a review March 2, 2020 I’m not one to write reviews, but why not? I purchased this SSD for my Mac Pro 1,1 to use as my system drive for audio recording purposes. Not only did I get the drive in a timely fashion, it was easy to install, and probably halved my start up time! Works so well I ordered another to put in for audio file storage. Just bought a couple more to install in my MacBook Pro! Thanks, OWC!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from DIY Kit: NewerTech AdaptaDrive + 480GB OWC Extreme Pro 6G Solid-State Drive Bundle.. Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: Juns Location: Japan Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 The wonderful support March 2, 2020 Dear MACSALES.COM I appreciate you in case of the polite support. It awaits for product's reaching. Jun Sasaki

This review is from DIY Kit: NewerTech AdaptaDrive + 500GB OWC Electra 3G Solid-State Drive Bundle.. Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: Ipader Location: Pittsburgh, PA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Easy install January 9, 2020 Thanks to the install video on the OWC website, I was able to easily disassemble my old iMac and install the ssd. I would never have attempted this without first viewing the video a few times. I did have difficulty formatting and installing my OS. I called OWC tech support and was promptly helped by Darren. Darren was very patient with me. He took time explaining the steps I needed to follow to successfully boot up my machine. He was easy to understand and extremely knowledgeable. I’m glad I purchased from OWC! First time I ever disassembled a computer.

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Reviewer: LorenzoF
Rating: 5/5 Buono November 20, 2019 I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket. Customer Videos:
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Reviewer: grrr Location: Napa, CA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Gold standard for support August 16, 2019 The drive has not yet arrived, but support for my older failing drive has been really superb. Patient, caring, hanging in there until the old drive was brought back to life, at least for now.

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Reviewer: Sjones Location: Jacksonville Fl Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great drive for Imac 7.1 March 12, 2019 Installed easily, formatted quickly, and runs smoothly and quietly. Great drive I installed on Imac 7.1.

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Reviewer: DuffENator
Rating: 5/5 Great upgrade for an old iMac December 27, 2018 Was given a free 2009 20-inch iMac (9,1), 2.66 Ghz, 2GB Ram. Wiped it and installed last OS it could handle, El Capitan 10.11.3.

Slow is the word. Tweaked the OS to turn off fancy GUI stuff (GPU is only 256mb). Still slow. Upgraded the Ram to 8GB (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/8566DDR3S8GP/). Helped quite a bit. Recommended.

This SDD kit did the trick though. After installing this and restoring from a backup, this machine is night and day from before. Over a minute to boot and launch email before, now around 10-15 secs. Sure, it's a 9-10 year old iMac, but the difference is real. It's a workable machine again. Feels new and it's almost 10 years old!

The video instructions on how to install this weren't quite on the money for this machine, but close enough to figure out. My screen has slightly different connections - I just disconnected the one cable by the fan and flipped the screen over to the right side, leaving the other connectors intact. Also, this iMac had 4 long screws on the bottom of the bezel, not two.

Great upgrade!

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Reviewer: Adwblanco Location: Rockland, Maine Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Worked great! October 29, 2018 Easy adaptor to fit a SSD into an older iMac. Also need the temp sensor to make it work, which OWC also has. Old iMac back to life and smoking fast!

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Reviewer: Puguglybonehead Location: Toronto, ON Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Brings an Old Mac Up To Speed October 1, 2018 I wanted to keep using my G5 iMac as I find I still need a PowerPC machine for certain things. I'm running the last version of Lightwave 3D (9.6) that was coded specifically for PPC. I had purchased numerous plugins for Lightwave in the PPC days and several of them were never ported to the Universal Binary version of Lightwave. No running these on an Intel Mac. Maxing out the RAM on the G5 helped a bit, but still didn't speed up things like rendering. I had read about how installing an SSD can make a difference in tasks that require writing to disc. I was already used to the snappiness of my MacBook Air with its built-in SSD and was hoping for similar responsiveness in my G5. Most SSDs currently available are not compatible with something as old as a G5, but OWC sell ones that are. I have only been using it for a few days but I can already notice the difference. Besides making the GUI respond quicker on the G5, I am also noticing raytracing in Lightwave is much faster now. (due to the quicker writing to disc) Hopefully it will improve radiosity rendering a tiny bit as well. (although radiosity is mostly processor-intensive rendering) Overall, I'm very happy with the OWC SSD. The drive adapter made installation very easy. No problems formatting the drive. (I used Mac OS Extended) I will be using the old hard disc in an external box for backups. Nice to be enjoying a fast G5 again!

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Reviewer: finspeed Location: SoCentralCoast CA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Great product September 13, 2018 Actually, I bought this five years ago and used it for an SSD in two different MacPros. Then I decided to put the SSDs on PCIe cards.

It is a great product which served me well for five years.

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Reviewer: TMac
Rating: 5/5 Worked in my iMac! June 4, 2018 After using another kit to open up my iMac, this adapter fit exactly to mount my SSD. Very happy with the speed and noise improvements! Built very sturdy, too, not some cheap plastic.

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Reviewer: DragonTower Location: Grand Island, NE Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Better than expected! June 2, 2018 Item is made of aluminium. I expected a cheap plastic part but was surprised when it turned out to be metal. The part combined with the selected SSD, fit perfectly without any issues. The entire upgrade was effortless and quite easy, it took a total or less than about 30 minutes to complete from tear down to finished assembly.

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Reviewer: DesignerKid Location: New York Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 2009 iMac Running like a Champ! May 23, 2018 Followed OWC tutorial video and installation was a breeze! 2009 iMac boots up much quicker. I had to first remove third party memory and put in OEM in order to install a fresh copy of El Capitan.

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Reviewer: Kenmac Location: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Works well May 8, 2018 When I saw this on the website I thought it was made of plastic but when I opened up the box I was surprised and impressed to see this was made from metal. It's a solid well made product and if I'm upgrading another hard drive to an SSD in the future I'll definitely be ordering another one. Thanks OWC.

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Reviewer: Alvin Location: California Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Very solid April 26, 2018 Very solid, well-built bracket. SSD fit perfectly in it and it fit perfectly in iMac.

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Reviewer: granada29 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Resurrected my 2009 iMac March 11, 2018 The internal drive in my 2009 iMac failed - it had done its job well for almost 9 years. After a little thought, replacing the drive with an SSD seemed to be the best option. The kit supplied by OWC was ideal and by carefully following their video instructions I was able to install the new SSD with no drama at all. Prior to installing the drive in the iMac I had connected it to another machine and installed all data and operating system (El Capitan) from a backup. On powering up the iMac for the first time after SSD installation it found the SSD and booted from the system that I had installed. A very rewarding experience.

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Reviewer: chuckle Location: Paden, OK Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Simple to use March 5, 2018 Simple to install a s 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual RAID USB 3.0 / FireWire 800 Enclosure Kit. I should have ordered 2 adapters.

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Reviewer: ori53 Experience Level: Hobbiest
Rating: 5/5 Perfect fit, just plug and play January 15, 2018 Bought this combo to upgrade my early 2009 IMac. Installation was easy with usage of how to video on owc website.

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Reviewer: Medic62 Location: Des Moines, IA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Easy to install January 4, 2018 My son helped me swap out the HD from a 2008 iMac with this bundle. It went very smoothly thanks to the excellent OWC video tutorial. Booted the SSD up from a Snow Leopard disc and then updated to El Capitan with no issues; the old Mac runs like a champ now!

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Reviewer: Emerald
Rating: 5/5 Worked great January 4, 2018 I used this to replace the original HD on my 2010 iMac with a SSD. It's working great.

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Reviewer: Watuse Location: Spain Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Bought this as part of my iMac SSD upgrade December 27, 2017 You will need this to install the SSD on your late 2009 iMac quart core i7

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Reviewer: Coldfoot Location: Gig Harbor, Wa Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 well engineered December 24, 2017 Great product and easy to add 2.5 drive to 3.5 bay. I do wish MacSales sold this without the Sata connector so that when I put it into IMAC with the thermal cable you could avoid having to make 2 extra connection points.....As it is built I had to connect the SSD to the bracket, the Thermal cable to the bracket, then the Thermal cable to the Computer bracket.. Each extra connection increases the possibility of connection issues...Fortunately everything is working well at this point...Would be nice is MacSales built one with the Thermal connection attached already.....

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Reviewer: moeefo Experience Level: Home User
Rating: 5/5 Went with SSD Drive December 16, 2017 I received my 2 products quickly and installed them right away. The SSD drive was very different in size from the old drives already in my Mac. It came with a mount which the drive screwed into and then the mount and drive together slide into the bay to connect to the computer. Relatively simple process but new for me and it worked without any problems. The drive is quiet and fast and so far has really sped up the computers functioning.

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Reviewer: Andy6456 Location: Oswego, NY Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Perfect adapter for 2.5" SSD December 15, 2017 I purchased this adapter for a HDD to SSD swap. Converting over is very simple with 1 handle bracket, 2 screw pins and 6 screws total. Extremely easy! Then just slip and press back into place and connect SATA/power connectors. That's it, besides taking apart and putting your computer back together again. Installation tool kit, available with or without SSD, is perfect for this if you don't already have one.

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Reviewer: XborderShpr Location: Canada, Eastern Ontario Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 New Life in a 2008 iMac 20" December 10, 2017 Sluggish and trapped behind OS 10.6.8 this iMac was loosing touch with the outside world.

With the video to replace the hard drive and basic skills to attach the SSD to the "Adaptadrive" it was accomplished without complication.

This kit and a RAM upgrade and in no time was ready for new software.10.7.5 was the starting point. 10.11 was where I left off. All seems to be running better than I had hoped for!

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DIY Bundle 2.0TB OWC 6G SSD and NewerTech AdaptaDrive Mfr P/N: ADPTA6G1TB OWC SKU: OWCADPTA6G2TB DIY kit includes a Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD and AdaptaDrive for install in a 3.5" SATA drive bay 5 Year OWC Limited Warranty Ships: Same Day
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