Name: (*) 960GB OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Storage Solution for Mac Pro (2008-2012) & PC
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCSSDPHW2R960
Rating: 5 (7 reviews)

960GB OWC Mercury Accelsior

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No drivers* are required making Accelsior a simple Plug and Play bootable solution.

Easy, no drivers* required installation
Dual LSI® SandForce SF-228X processors
Sustained Data Transfer Rates of up to 758MB/s read and 743MB/s write
May also be used in external Thunderbolt expansion chassis.
Features High-Performance, Tier 1 Synchronous-NAND
Up to 960GB Capacity Today
Upgradeable to Future Released Higher Capacities
1 Year OWC Limited Warranty

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One Of The Easiest Upgrades You Can Install

If you can install a memory module, you'll find adding this high-performance card into your desktop/tower machine a breeze. By utilizing the fastest data interface available in a Apple Mac® Pro or PC-the PCIe slot-Mercury Accelsior offers nearly 3x faster performance than a 3Gb/s SSD...and beyond even 6Gb/s SSDs!

Experience supercharged speeds up to 756MB/s read and 673MB/s write and stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. With up to 100K IOP/s, business critical applications are given an instant boost while Accelsior's extreme performance speed dramatically reduces game level-loading, object streaming, and save times for more play time and less waiting.

Mac and PC Bootable with No Driver* Setup

Bootable on PCs and the only Mac-bootable/supported PCIe SSD available, Mercury Accelsior delivers near instant startup and app launching. And with a driverless* setup, it's truly a Plug and Play, high-performance solution

A More Efficient & Reliable Computing Experience

Massively boosting data transfer rates is only one of the benefits to the Mercury Accelsior. With its SandForce Driven™ SSDs, you'll enjoy a more responsive and productive computing experience, cooler and quieter processing, and greater energy efficiency compared to standard hard drives. Those benefits don't come at the expense of reliability however; SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability.

User Friendly, Professionally Robust

Simple enough for mainstream business use, yet robust enough for professional multimedia production environments, the OWC Mercury Accelsior is the clear choice for pro audio and video studios producing HD-quality work. This game changing performance upgrade is designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts and backed by a three-year warranty.

The Mercury SSD line features industry leading SandForce® DuraClass™ Technologies:

DuraWrite™ extends the endurance of your Solid State Drive (SSD).

Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.

Intelligent Read Disturb Management spreads the active read/write across the flash components eliminating data corruption caused by constant use.

Intelligent "Recycling" for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted.

RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup.

Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention and drive life.

Accelsior Now Supports Sleep Mode!

We're pleased to offer this driver that enables Accelsior to be used as an OS X start-up/boot volume in a Mac Pro or Xserve.

Includes

(1) Solid-state Drive
1 Year OWC Limited Warranty

Specs

Capacity

0 GB

Formatted Capacity

0GiB

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Controller

Dual LSI® SandForce SF-228x series processors

NAND Flash Components

Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash

S.M.A.R.T. Attributes

Standard attributes supported

Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Up to 32 simultaneous commands

RAID Support

Form Factor

Low Profile PCI Express

Storage Interface

PCIe 2.0 x2, AHCI

Random 4K Read

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Sequential Read (Max)

Up to 0 MB/s

Sequential Write (Max)

Up to 0 MB/s

Sustained Read (3Gb/s)

Up to 756 MB/s

Sustained Write (3Gb/s)

Up to 646 MB/s

Sustained Read (6Gb/s)

Up to 811 MB/s

Sustained Write (6Gb/s)

Up to 673 MB/s

Read Latency (Max)

1 µs

Write Latency (Max)

1 µs

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

TRIM Support

Not Supported

Error Correction

Built-in ECC

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

Endurance

0TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 0 GB per day for 5 years

Read Mode (Max)

Up to 0 Watts

Write Mode (Max)

Up to 0 Watts

Seek Mode (Max)

Up to 0 Watts

Idle Mode (Max)

Up to 0 Watts

Dimensions

Height: 12.0 cm (4.7 in)
Length: 18.0 cm (7.1 in)
Width: 2.1 cm (0.8 in)

Weight

85.0 g (0.19 lbs)

RoHS Compliant

Reach Certification

Ambient Temperature

Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
Non-Operating: -67°F to 302°F (-55°C to 150°C)

Altitude

Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

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Made my 2008 Mac Pro run really fast.

I don't notice much of a performance difference for light tasks, between my 2018 15" MacBook Pro, and my 2008 Mac Pro, with this new PCIe SSD. When it comes to the little animations, and all the little things the OS does, the experience feels identical to my new MBP. To make this a viable option as a boot volume on an 08 MP, it has to be selected from an already working

I would recommend this product to a friend!

Verified Purchase.

HaitianDalmation,

Feb, 20 2019

review of: (*) 480GB OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Storage Solution for Mac Pro (2008-2012) & PC

Reviewer:HaitianDalmation
From:Cherry Hill, NJ
Age:18-24
Experience:IT Professional
Owned Product:less than a month

Fast, reliable, bootable flash drive

Have used product & upgraded model for past 3-years ; extremely fast performance as a primary boot drive for my 2012 MacPro. Other than some "sleep" related issues with the original model, and driver updates needed in order to upgrade from OS X Mountain Lion to El Captan, this SSD has performed reliably and good performance.