OWC Announces 6Gb/s Blade SSD

[jayhawk11]

Interesting addition to OWC's MacBook Air product lineup today:


OWC Announces Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G As Industry’s First 6Gbps Solid-State Drive For 2011 Apple MacBook Air


Ought to be a pretty big upgrade.

 

[nuckinfutz]

I'm happy with my speed.

In a couple of years these drives will be 384 and 512GB and that's what I'd like to move to.

 

[komoornik]

GG for all the people that recently bought SATA2 drives from OWC for the 2011 MBA's, because they wanted speed.

 

[xraydoc]

Hopefully if/when I need more space on my Air in 2-3 yrs they'll have a 512GB or 768GB model (for the price of the 240GB today).

 

[zzz99]

I am more concern about if we can use the Apple SSD for other desktop/laptop, it is really a waste if I can't use it for other computer...

Is there any adapter in the market that can convert it to regular SATA port?


The price only dropped ~30% since the 1st generation of the SSD...

Hopefully if/when I need more space on my Air in 2-3 yrs they'll have a 512GB or 768GB model (for the price of the 240GB today).

 

[orfeas0]

I am more concern about if we can use the Apple SSD for other desktop/laptop, it is really a waste if I can't use it for other computer...

Is there any adapter in the market that can convert it to regular SATA port?


The price only dropped ~30% since the 1st generation of the SSD...

While searching about upgrading a MBP to ssd, I found out you can use your old Hard Drive as an external with usb connection (and a case).
It's probably the same with the ssd. Buy a case, put it in and connect with usb (or maybe, some day, with thunderbolt!)

 

[zzz99]

For the regular 2.5" hdd, yes.

But not this special Apple SSD card...

While searching about upgrading a MBP to ssd, I found out you can use your old Hard Drive as an external with usb connection (and a case).
It's probably the same with the ssd. Buy a case, put it in and connect with usb (or maybe, some day, with thunderbolt!)

 

[jsolares]

While searching about upgrading a MBP to ssd, I found out you can use your old Hard Drive as an external with usb connection (and a case).
It's probably the same with the ssd. Buy a case, put it in and connect with usb (or maybe, some day, with thunderbolt!)

there currently are no cases for the blade ssd's in the air, owc said they were developing one but so far no news

scratch that, it seems they were introduced silently (or at least i hadn't noticed XD) http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Express

 

[zzz99]

Oh right, it is there! But... I wish there is an adapter for desktop... it is still a waste to use a 250MB read speed SSD as USB2.0...(since there is no FW on MBA...)

 

[jsolares]

Oh right, it is there! But... I wish there is an adapter for desktop... it is still a waste to use a 250MB read speed SSD as USB2.0...(since there is no FW on MBA...)

It says it includes special sata adaptor, no idea if it's removable from the enclosure tho. at least it's usb 3.0 for when macs do support it

 

[zzz99]

Apple will focus on ThunderBolt, I guess... I will forget this upgrade... and save the $ for the next MBA.

It says it includes special sata adaptor, no idea if it's removable from the enclosure tho. at least it's usb 3.0 for when macs do support it