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The flash memory used by OWC in the Aura Pro is synchronous NAND, as opposed to Asynchronous NAND. The OWC Aura Pro SSD (top) and the stock 256 GB Apple SSD (Bottom) The Aura Pro actually contains 512 GB worth of flash components, but 32 GB is used for real-time data redundancy and error correction, leaving 480 GB of usable space. The Aura Pro’s 480 GB capacity is less than that of Apple’s 512 GB SSD, but for a good reason. In fact, enabling TRIM with OWC SSDs may actually decrease performance and reliability, and so the company recommends that customers leave TRIM disabled.) It is fully SMART compliant and supports TRIM if enabled from within OS X ( Reviewer's Update: While the drive does indeed support TRIM, OWC SSDs have built-in hardware-level "garbage collection" that maintains drive performance, meaning that users do not need to enable TRIM in their operating system. The Aura Pro is powered by a SandForce 2281 controller with 7 percent over provisioning to prevent performance degradation over time. The Aura Pro SSD includes everything you need to replace the SSD in the Retina MacBook Pro
OWC AURA PRO SSD GUID PARTITION TABLE DRIVER
In this case, that’s a Pentalobe driver for the case screws and a Torx T–5 driver for the screw that holds the SSD in place inside the rMBP. Along those lines, the company includes all the tools you’ll need to perform the installation.
OWC AURA PRO SSD GUID PARTITION TABLE UPGRADE
Shortly after its release, tear-downs of the rMBP revealed both good and bad news: RAM was soldered to the system, and would not be user-upgradeable, but the internal SSD, despite its custom design, was removable and potentially upgradeable.Ībout two months after the rMBP’s release, Other World Computing (OWC), a longtime member of the Apple community and the first to release upgrades for many Macs with non-industry standard parts, released the Aura Pro, the first and thus far only third party SSD for the rMBP.Ĭurrently available in a single 480 GB capacity, the Aura Pro promises to increase rMBP storage speeds and provides a nice upgrade path for users who initially purchased their rMBP with a stock 256 GB drive and are now looking for more space.Īs mentioned above, OWC has been serving the Apple community since 1988, and they follow Apple’s “it just works” mentality. As Apple customers slowly stepped out of the “reality distortion field,” however, some were concerned that upgrading such a tightly-integrated beast would be impossible. When Apple announced the newly designed MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, many marveled at the power and speed that a completely custom design could bring.
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