Also included are installation tools, a heat sink, a USB cable, and an Envoy Pro carrying case. Apple uses the term ‘Flash storage’ because SSD’s have the same form factor (connection) as a regular spinning hard drive, and Apple uses Flash modules similar to the OWC 480GB Aura Pro X2. OWC Aura Pro X2 480 GB Solid State Drive (NVMe 1.3 (PCIe 3.1 x4)). We will give you the short answer: ‘SSD’ is the abbreviation of Solid State Drive, which is a Flash-based hard drive. The Aura Pro X2 comes complete with an Envoy Pro external enclosure that enables you to use your Mac's original flash SSD as a fast, external USB drive with transfer speeds up to 426 MB/s. OWC Aura Pro SSD SSD 480GB Macbook Air 2010/2011 (OWCSSDAP116G480) OWCSSDAP116G480. Additionally, the Aura Pro X2 is calibrated to consume only 5.7W during operation and to run cool. The drive reserves 7% of the overall capacity as free space to perform background maintenance tasks that optimize the health, performance, and endurance of your flash drive. I completely wiped it and installed MacOS Sierra everything was working fine and after a day or two my MacBook Pro started heating up I installed SMC FanControl to see the temp of my system it shows 55 to 60 C (131 to 140 F) always even when I am not using anything. The Aura Pro X2 is designed for macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later, taking full advantage of the advanced features of APFS including strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals. I upgraded my MacBook Pro with a OWC Aura 480GB SSD recently.
The drive uses 3D TLC synchronous NAND flash memory with advanced SLC caching to deliver sequential data read and write speeds of up to 15 MB/s respectively�up to twice as fast as the factory-installed drives.
OWC AURA PRO X 480GB SOLID STATE DRIVE UPGRADE
Designed for installation in a Mac Pro desktop computer (late 2013), this internal flash/SSD drive upgrade features a PCIe 3.1 x4, NVMe 1.3 interface and a custom blade form factor. Keep your edge with the Aura Pro X2 480GB NVMe SSD Upgrade Kit from OWC / Other World Computing.