The brand new 6Gbps Mac laptop Air alternative SSD from OWC
(Credit: OWC)OWC introduced today the Mercury Aura Professional Express 6G solid-condition drive (SSD), so it states function as the first available on the market that matches within the new Mac laptop Air (version 2011) while offering the most recent SATA 3 (6Gbps) standard.
Just just in case you do not know, the brand new Mac laptop Air may offer the latest SATA 3 (6Gbps), that provides a high data rate close to 500MBps. However, the laptop's stock SSD supports just the reduced SATA 2 (3Gbps) standard. What this means is, despite how rapidly the equipment presently boots and works, the drive may be the bottleneck that keeps the Air's performance from being potentially greater. Because the Air utilizes a nonstandard SSD that resembles something thumb drive greater than a standard SSD, the two.5-inch laptop drives available on the market can't be utilized for a alternative. And this is when OWC's new Aura Professional drive fills in.
OWC states the new Aura Professional Express 6G SSD is made to use both 11.1-inch and 13.3-inch types of the brand new Mac laptop Air. It utilizes a SandForce controller and Tier 1/Grade A Toggle Synchronous NAND and may offer four occasions the performance from the Air's stock SSD. In addition, based on the organization, it offers as much as 100 occasions the information protection of the regular SSD by mixing the greatest degree of Error Correction Code and SandForce RAISE technology, together with 7 percent overprovisioning.
The brand new SSD can be obtained now and, you suspected it, expensive, costing around $345 and $600 for that 120GB and 240GB capabilities correspondingly.
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