OWC Announces Aura Flash Storage Upgrades for Mid-2013 and Later Mac Laptops

[Drew]

Love OWC!

480GB and 1TB upgrades for newer Macbooks.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/08/owc-...-upgrades/

[Lew Zealand]

1/3 the throughput of Apple SSDs in the MacBook Pros. They're still very fast at 450-750 MB/s and you can install them after purchase so that tradeoff isn't too bad.

[sekker]

Lew Zealand wrote:
1/3 the throughput of Apple SSDs in the MacBook Pros. They're still very fast at 450-750 MB/s and you can install them after purchase so that tradeoff isn't too bad.

Do these newer Apple SSDs slow down as they fill up past 75%? If so, even these new ones are likely faster than Apple OEMs once they are installed since they will have added scratch space.

[jdc]

sekker wrote:
Do these newer Apple SSDs slow down as they fill up past 75%? If so, even these new ones are likely faster than Apple OEMs once they are installed since they will have added scratch space.

no drive likes to be full, HDD or SSD (technically apple drives are flash based)

But going over 75% full doesnt automagically make them Zip disc slow.

plenty fast -- rated faster thatn any 2.5" SSD -- Peak data rate: 763MB/s read and 446MB/s write

But Lew is right, 1/3 the thoughtput of a newer MBP -- 2015 rMBPs are getting 2000 MB/s read 1500MS/s write

[Bill in NC]

At 3x the price of 2.5" SATA SSDs.

Why isn't there a PCI-SSD standard?

Drew wrote:
Love OWC!

480GB and 1TB upgrades for newer Macbooks.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/08/owc-...-upgrades/

[decay]

Bill in NC wrote:
At 3x the price of 2.5" SATA SSDs.

Why isn't there a PCI-SSD standard?

[quote=Drew]
Love OWC!

480GB and 1TB upgrades for newer Macbooks.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/08/owc-...-upgrades/

Because it's Apple.

And aren't the newer faster drives soldered to the logic board?

[Lew Zealand]

Not soldered, all Apple's drives (except maybe the MacBook?) are removable.