OWC Aura Pro MBA (for MacBook Air 2008(sata)/2009 Models) with 3

OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA Solid State Drive for MacBook Air 2008/20091 Edition.

!!! Mercury Aura Pro MBA does not work with MacBook Air January 2008 Model !!!

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 up to 41X faster than factory hard drive models. (up to 20%
faster than factory SSD models.*)
* Go BIGGER up to 4X more capacity than original factory SSD 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.

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Mercury Aura Pro MBA

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

MacBook Air 2009 Shootout
Stock HD vs. OWC Aura Pro MBA SDD

See the massive increase in performance you'll get when you install an OWC Aura Pro MBA SDD in your 2008/2009 MacBook Air!
Owners of 2008-2009 MacBook Air Late 2008 to Sept 2010 models can now make their machines faster than the newest models by installing an OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA SSD.

Besides adding a 20% speed boost in boot, app load, and overall system responsiveness, the OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA SSD provides the flexibility for up to 4X 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 2008-2009 MacBook Air 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 SSD 268MB/s vs 2010 factory SSD speed of 215MB/s
**OWC 480GB SSD vs factory optional 128GB SSD



* COMPATIBILIT

The Mercury Aura™ is compatible with

MacBook Air
MacBook Air (Late 2008)(October, 2008)
Model ID: MacBookAir2,1 1.6GHz, 1.86GHz
MacBook Air
MacBook Air (Mid 2009)(June, 2009)
Model ID: MacBookAir2,1 1.86GHz, 2.13GHz
MacBook Air

!!! NOT COMPATIBLE WITH !!!
MacBook Air (January, 2008)
Model ID: MacBookAir1,1 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz


Mercury Auro™ Pro MBA 1.8″ Specs:

Form Factor
1.8″ SSD

Interface
SATA 3Gb/s

Capacity
60GB useable capacity

Total Flash Memory Components - 64GB

4GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity
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)

Reliability
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.