OWC Aura Pro 1.8" SATA with 3yr Warranty

OWC
60GB Mercury Aura Pro
Solid State Drive.
For special applications, netbooks,
& subnotebooks that utilize a 1.8" drive.
When only the fastest and most reliable Solid State Drive on the market today will suffice for your data storage and backup, look no further than the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSD.

* Go FASTER with data rates up to 275MB/s
* Go BIGGER up to 16X more capacity than original factory hard drive option.*
* Go ROUGHER NO Moving Parts for reliability up to 100X
higher than hard drives.

The Mercury Aura SSD line features industry leading SandForce® DuraClass Technologies:

* DuraWrite™ extends the endurance of your Solid State Drive (SSD).
* Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.
* Intelligent Read Disturb Management spreads the active read/write across the flash components eliminating data corruption caused by constant use.
* Intelligent "Recycling" for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted.
* RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup.
* Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention and drive life.

No Risk, No Hassle 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.
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Mercury Aura Pro
Highlights

* One of the fastest Internal SATA 1.8″
SSD available...and Built in the USA!
* Ultra-efficient Block Management
& Wear Leveling
* Extreme Power Efficiency
* 3 year OWC warranty

OWC's SSD vs HDD Shootout!

Seeing is believing! Watch a side-by-side
shootout between an SSD and HDD in a
MacBook Pro loading Adobe's
Creative Suite on startup.
Besides adding a tremendous speed boost in boot, app load, and overall system responsiveness, the OWC Mercury Aura Pro 1.8″ SSD provides the flexibility of capacity choices for up to 16X more capacity than originally offered by the factory. All of which come with award-winning ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling technologies to virtually eliminate any speed reduction over long term use of the drive. And for hard drive equipped netbook/ subnotebook owners, there's the added benefit of having the rugged dependability of a SSD that offers up to 100X greater reliability than traditional hard drives. Go faster, go bigger, go rougher...with the OWC Mercury Aura Pro 1.8" SSD.
Better by Design
"Mean Time To Failure" - We all know that nothing lasts forever. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get the most out of your investment. OWC SSD with Durawrite™ Technology, optimizes writes to the flash memory over conventional controllers increasing the overall endurance and reliability of the complete SSD. Highly intelligent block management and wear leveling also extends the overall endurance. With this technology, even MLC-based SSDs can operate for years in demanding use applications without daily write restrictions. This adds up to a MTTF that is higher than most enterprise class hard drives and SSDs on the market today.

Additionally, as there are no volatile memory elements in this storage device, the need for cache is completely negated. The drive is just that fast from the get-go!
High Performance Internal Storage
Replace your conventional hard drive with a reliable solid state drive. Unlike traditional hard disk drives, OWC solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness.

*OWC 480GB SSD vs Dell factory equipped 30GB HDD

* SPECS


60GB Mercury Auro™ Pro MBA 1.8″ Specs:
Specifications
Form Factor
1.8″ SSD
Interface
SATA 3Gb/s
Capacity1
60GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components - 64GB
4GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction
Formatted Capacity2
111GiB
NAND
Tier 1/Grade A Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory
Controller
SandForce Processor with full SF1200 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set
SMART Attributes
Standard
RAID Support
Yes
Manufacturer Model Number
OWCSSDAPMB060
RoHS Compliant
Yes
Format
Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)
Reliability3
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)4
2,000,000
Data Reliability
ECC Recovery: Up to 24 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
Security
Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant
TRIM Support
Yes
Nonrecoverable Read Errors
Less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read
Warranty
3 Year OWC Warranty
Performance
Sequential Read (up to)
285MB/s
Sequential Write (up to)
275MB/s
Random 4K Read5
Up to 50,000 IOPS
Random 4K Write5
Up to 50,000 IOPS
Read Latency
less than 0.1ms
Write Latency
less than 0.1ms
Power
Read Power
2.2 Watts
Write Power
2.5 Watts
Idle Power
0.09 Watts
Environmental (Operating)
Temperature (°F)
32°F to 158°F
Temperature (°C)
0°C to 70°C
Environmental (Non-Operating)
Temperature (°F)
-67°F to 302°F
Temperature (°C)
-55°C to 150°C
Acoustics
Idle (Typical)
0.0 bels
Seek (Typical)
0.0 bels

1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
4. Based on SandForce processor operation.
5. Specifications provided by SandForce.


IMPORTANT LAPTOP USER NOTE: There have been reports of system hangs in relation to hibernation mode.
We recommend not using ANY program that puts your laptop into hibernation mode when using an SSD.

Normal, automatic sleep mode functions perfectly with no issues.

We also highly recommend you avoid draining your battery completely (5% or less remaining charge) to avoid being automatically switched into hibernation mode by your machine's power saving settings. If your notebook does go into hibernation mode, the machine can hang once it is plugged into an outlet or when using a charged battery as the machine comes out of hibernation mode. If you should experience this, you will need to restart your machine and any unsaved work from that session will be lost. SandForce is working on this issue and it will be addressed in a future firmware update. We will post the update on our firmware update page as soon as it becomes available.