![]() ![]() In our case, we cloned the factory drive to a Thunderbolt enclosure using Carbon Copy Cloner. Is the flash storage upgrade easy to install? Yes. It is much more sophisticated than the OS dependent TRIM support in the Apple factory flash module. I'm speaking of the OS independent intelligent block management, intelligent wear leveling, intelligent read disturb management, intelligent recycling, redundant array of independent silicon elements, and advanced ECC protection. One very important advantage of the Aura Pro Express does not show up in the graphs. If you want speed and mobility, the SSD upgrade is the way to go.ĥ. And both Thunderbolt enclosures require AC power. As good as the Thunderbolt enclosures are with 6G SSDs, counting the SSDs, they are two to three times as expensive as the internal 6G SSD kit of comparable capacity. The Aura was surprisingly slower than the Factory Samsung in the Restart test, but both the Aura and Factory Samsung flash storage modules Restarted faster than both Thunderbolt RAID 0 boot volumes.Ĥ. In the Finder Duplicate test, the Aura was 29% faster than the Factory Samsung flash storage.ģ. The Aura performs three times as many small random reads per second as the Apple factory flash storage and 35% more writes per second.Ģ. ![]() ![]() The OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G flash storage module was approximately twice as fast as the Apple factory Samsung flash storage in the QuickBench small random and large sequential data transfers.
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