2020. 3. 22. 17:48ㆍ카테고리 없음
I've been eyeing up a storage upgrade for my MacBook Air, which is a late 2013, and I'm looking to dip into the wallet for one of the OWC Aura SSD drives: Anyone have any experience with these drives?? I'm not expecting a speed bump over the standard Apple SSD I already have - I don't think the Aura SSD is any faster at all, its more for the capacity. Yes, I know its not cheap, but having 1TB internal capacity in my MacBook Air sounds good considering its my daily machine, and I'm not into having to carry external drives etc.
May go for the entire kit and place my Apple SSD in the 'Envoy Pro' which will make the cloning process easier, as well as making a good backup. Will report back with my results if I go ahead!!
Installed the drive today for initial testing. All works perfectly well - cloned my OS across and its been working fine. The drive is recognised as an external device, as stated above, but even still its been fine. Its a little slower then the stock 256GB drive I removed but I guess thats the trade off when it comes to having higher capacity! Nevertheless, during general usage I hardly notice any difference in speed.
The Envoy enclosure also wells well - I'll create a video review on the drive soon, but initial impressions are pretty impressive! I did something similar for my 2012 rMBP by buying and installing Transcend's 1TB stick, which works perfectly well, though I do understand that there are more options available for the pre-late-2013 machines (OWC is the only game in town so far to produce a native one for late 2013 to present-day). I also have a 2010 MBA, though, and I recently became aware of the fact that some people make adapters now that allow for your MBA or rMBP to take a standard M.2 SSD stick! I got one of those adapters and a really cheap 250GB M.2 SATA stick to bump up from the 120GB my Air came with, and it works perfectly fine, TRIM and all!
For late 2013+ machines, I managed to find this guy:. The only downside to going this route with the current crop of machines is that there actually aren't that many options (especially compared to the SATA M.2 market) when it comes to available M.2 sticks that will work, because 2013-2015 MacBooks only support the AHCI protocol for PCIe storage, and PCIe AHCI sticks were a relative flash-in-the-pan.things moved over to NVMe relatively quickly.
As a result, I haven't been able to find a single PCIe AHCI M.2 stick with a capacity above 512GB. So it looks like if you want a third-party 1TB upgrade for your 2013-2015 machine, OWC is still the only game in town.
However, if you want to bump up to half a TB from something smaller, with this adapter, you have some other options. Click to expand.Interesting! Thanks for this.
Some thoughts: 1. Wow, what a spartan web page.
No real information about the company, their history, where they are located, press releases, etc. Thank goodness for Wayback Machine. Product descriptions are also super sparse.
Love that they are focusing on plug-and-play compatibility. It's only very briefly hinted at in the review you linked to, but am I to understand that any version of MacOS will automatically enable TRIM for this drive without having to resort either to kext patches or 'trimforce'? How did they accomplish that exactly? Does it pretend to be / identify itself as an Apple-model drive?
Owc Aura Pro X Ssd
HOLY COW, those prices. Since they are clearly emphasizing performance that is even better than stock/OEM, then they can probably get away with charging that, and you surely get what you pay for.
I don't think OWC has to worry about entering into a price war here. It also makes sense to target performance-conscious buyers when manufacturing and selling drives for 'Pro' machines. But the MacBook Air? I can only speak for myself, but in my Air, I'd just as soon sacrifice a little bit of performance for more storage capacity, at the lowest price I can get away with paying, and I have a feeling I'm not alone.
I don't understand trying to sell a $600 512GB SSD to MBA owners. I also don't understand why the prices are as different as they are between the nMP, rMBP/MBA Gen2, and rMBP/MBA Gen3 drives. Or even why there are different models to begin with. I see that some are PCIe 2.0 and some are PCIe 3.0, but (and I could be wrong here) I don't think the connector changed between 2014 and 2015, and I'd guess that a PCIe 3.0 device would work just fine on a PCIe 2.0 host, just at slower speeds. Also, why is the nMP (2013) $100-150 more expensive than the rMBP Gen3 drive.I don't get it. Haha, check out what they did for the rMBP Gen1 option: it looks like an mSATA device on an adapter card. Hey, I could have assembled that myself, and spent way less money on it!
To get back to this particular thread, they have a 1TB option for rMBP, but not for MBA, while OWC does. ONE-YEAR WARRANTY. At these prices. I still want to see relatively inexpensive, moderately-performing, high-capacity PCIe AHCI M.2 blades on the market.
Your Mac’s Flash Drive, Reimagined Your upgrade should be a seamless experience. That’s why Aura SSD upgrade kits come with Envoy Pro., the beautifully designed, high-performance SSD enclosure to reimagine your Mac’s factory PCIe-based flash drive. When you remove your original flash SSD, it fits perfectly into Envoy Pro so you can transfer all of your data to the new Aura inside your laptop.
Once the file transfer is complete, enjoy using your Mac’s factory-installed flash SSD as a fast USB external drive with transfer speeds up to 426MB/s.