DIY Bundle

Name: DIY Kit: NewerTech AdaptaDrive + 2TB OWC Extreme Pro 6G Solid-State Drive Bundle.
SKU: OWCADPTA6G2TB
Price: 459.75 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.95 (139 reviews)

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.

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.

2.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller

Silicon Motion SM2246EN Series

NAND

Tier 1 3D NAND

Form Factor

Standard 7mm 2.5"

Interface

SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 Compliant

Capacity¹

1920GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components – 2048GB
128GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity²

1860GiB

RAID Support

Qualified for single drive and multiple drive production workstation RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN usage.

SMART Attributes

Standard⁵

Native Command Queuing

up to 32 commands

Manufacturer Model Number

OWCSSD7P6G02S

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

7mm (0.276″)

OWC 7mm – 9.5mm Adapter

1 included (buy additional)

Width (max)

70.06mm (2.758″)

Length (max)

100.12mm (3.941″)

Weight

77 grams +/- 2 grams
0.170 lbs +/- 2.71 oz

Reliability³

Data Reliability

Built-in BCH ECC: Up to 66 bits correctable per 1024 bytes

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant

TRIM Support

Yes

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

Less than 1 sector per 10¹⁶ bits read

Performance

Sequential Reads (6Gb/s, Compressible Data)

525 MB/s

Sequential Writes (6GB/s, Compressible Data)

402 MB/s

Sequential Reads (6GB/s, Incompressible Data)

515 MB/s

Sequential Writes (6Gb/s, Incompressible Data)

407 MB/s

Power

Active

Less than 2000mW (2.0W) expected maximum draw

Idle

Less than 700mW (0.7W)

Environmental (Operating)

Temperature (°F)

32°F to 158°F

Temperature (°C)

0°C to 70°C

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 185°F

Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 85°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

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.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability.
Temperature reporting is currently an unsupported feature because due to the operating characteristics of SSDs, it is highly unlikely one would ever exceed an OWC Mercury SSD's stated operating temperature ceiling of 158F/70C. However, we are looking into supporting this feature in the future via a firmware update. Firmware updates can be found here: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/OWC/SSD.

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

Gallery

Video

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 / 5 132 out of 139 (95%) reviewers would recommend this product

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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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Reviewer: DBruce Location: Kirkland, WA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 New Life for 2007 iMac October 19, 2017 When the hard disk drive failed on our 2007 iMac (that we're using for some limited, but important file sharing tasks) I thought it was the end of this machine. Instead I ordered this SSD, followed the video to install it, and after a bit of an issue, it's like a new machine! Speedy!

I had a problem with my Snow Leopard Disk Utilities, but one call to OWC with a very helpful and patient support representative and my problem was fixed.

So, I highly recommend this product and the support from OWC.

Thanks!

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Reviewer: RebukeM

Rating: 5/5 Perfect 3.5" form factor September 20, 2017 I needed this converter bracket so I could put an SSD in my Dell Server. The bracket fits perfectly in the 3.5" drive bay system. My only concern after seeing the bracket in person, was regarding the performance of the SATA interface. I haven't run any performance tests but my system feels just as fast as the direct connection.

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Reviewer: 2get Location: Glenview Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent Service and Information August 20, 2017 Arrived quickly and works perfectly. Videos were awesome at helping me to complete the job.

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Reviewer: windvane Location: Harare, Zimbabwe Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Just the upgrade needed for older I Mac's and Mac Books August 3, 2017 My MacBook and my I Mac are pre 2011, and both were showing there age, particularly my Mac book pro. I decided that I really did not want to invest in new computers and carried out some research on possible upgrades to improve the performance of my existing computers, which is where I discovered OWC. Both machines have now received 480GB SSD's, and the improvement in performance is brilliant! Although I'm a relatively technical individual, I've never tackled any work on computers before, Thanks to OWC's video presentations, the task of replacing the HDD's with SSD's was a "walk in the park"

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Reviewer: Funnyboy48 Location: Ohio Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 This Product is Perfect! August 1, 2017 This is just what I needed to add SSD drives to my Mac Pro. Easy to install and works like a charm. Thanks so much!

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Reviewer: OldProInstall Location: Frederick, MD Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Great upgrade for older mac July 25, 2017 While waiting for the new Macs to come out I decided to increase my disk space with this solid-state drive. The website led me directly to what I wanted with no ambiguity. Installation was as easy as the videos suggest. The only minor sticking point was how to move all my files over to the new drive, but Disk Utility Restore did the job. Some guidance for that would be useful in the videos. My machine now runs faster and smoother.

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2.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Physical

Reliability3

Performance

Power

Environmental (Operating)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Acoustics

AdaptaDrive Specifications:

NewerTech Part Number

Drive Inteface

Drive Supported

Material

Dimensions

Weight (Without Drives

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Video

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Warranty

Customer Ratings

2.0TB OWC 6G SSD
and NewerTech AdaptaDrive

Reliability³