OWC Aura Pro X2 500GB Gen4 PCIe NVMe SSD for MacBook

Tight deadlines, long nights, and terabytes of media – your Mac has been with you through it all. If storage is tight, there’s no reason to ditch the Mac you know and love. The Aura Pro X2 Gen4 SSD gives you up to 16 times more space and the speed to keep up with your imagination today and tomorrow. Upgrade your Mac with Aura Pro X2 Gen4 SSD for a fraction of the cost of a new model and keep your Mac running for years.

Aura Pro X2 Gen4 combines speed, stamina, and efficiency that will change the way you experience your Mac. With read speeds reaching 3335MB/s and write speeds of 3271MB/s, the 500GB Aura Pro X2 Gen4 is up to twice as fast as the original SSDs, delivering performance on par with the latest models. It runs cooler and consumes less power than earlier SSD models, so you can run at peak for longer than ever.

When it’s go time, getting off the line and maintaining a high level of performance are equally important. Aura Pro X2 Gen4 is engineered with advanced SLC caching, providing instant full-speed write acceleration, meaning those media projects and games stream fluidly and respond without lag time.

The Aura Pro X2 Gen4 SSD is designed for the latest macOS versions (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.

FEATURES:

High performance for high demands
Read speeds up to 3335MB/s
Write speeds up to 3271MB/s
Consumes less power and runs cooler
Designed for macOS 10.13 and beyond
NVMe – PCIe 4.0 x4

SPECIFICATIONS:

Controller: Innogrit IG5220 with 3% over-provisioning
NAND: 3D TLC Synchronous Triple level cell NAND Flash
Form Factor: Custom blade
Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.4
Capacity: 500GB of usable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components: 512GB, 12GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
Formatted Capacity: 466GiB
Drive Format: APFS for Mac
Native Command Queuing: up to 32 commands
Sequential Read: Up to 3335MB/s
Sequential Write: Up to 3271MB/s
Average Access Time: <0.1ms
MTBF(Mean Time Between Failures): 1,5000,000 hours
TRIM Support: OS Dependent
Error Correction: Built-in ECC
Endurance: 1000TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 392GB per day for 7 years
OS Requirements:
macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 10.15 Catalina
macOS 11.x Big Sur
macOS 12.x Monterey
macOS 13.x Ventura
macOS 14.x Sonoma
Host Requirements: The host computer must be updated over an Apple factory SSD to the latest OS available before installing this drive.
RoHS Compliant: Yes
Format: Unformatted
Dimensions: 8.9 x 2.2 x 0.3 cm
Weight: 7g

What’s in the box
1 x OWC 500GB Aura Pro X2 SSD – Blue