OWC Aura Pro X2 Gen4 500GB PCIe NVMe SSD for Mac Mini Late 2014
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 3282MB/s and write speeds of 2432MB/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. You might even forget what that beachball looks like.
Aura Pro X2 Gen4 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 3282MB/s
- Write speeds up to 2432MB/s
- Consumes less power and runs cooler
- Designed for macOS 10.13 and beyond
- NVMe – PCIe 4.0 x4
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Controller: Silicon Motion SM2262EN Series Processor with 7% over-provisioning
- NAND: 3D TLC Synchronous Triple level cell NAND Flash
- Form Factor_ Custom blade
- Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Capacity: 480GB of usable capacity
- Total Flash Memory Components_ 512GB, 32GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
- Formatted Capacity_ 447GiB
- Drive Format_ Unformatted
- Native Command Queuing_ up to 32 commands
- Sequential Read_ Up to 3282MB/s
- Sequential Write_ Up to 2432MB/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: 225TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 89 GB per dat for 70 days
- 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: 8 g
WHAT’S IN THE BOX_
- OWC 500GB Aura Pro X2 SSD – Blue x1 (Mac Mini Late 2014)
