I've purchased 3 SSD drives from OWC in the past. All 3 failed within 6 months. These were their extreme performance 2.5" drive. The first was a purchase, the next two were failed replacements. When the 3rd one failed I told them I don't want another replacement I want my money back. They refused. While I like most of their other products, I'll never by another SSD from them again. I'm not convinced they know what they are doing nor do they take the time and engineering to produce a quality product. JMHO.
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There is unfortunately no such machine... the latest Mac Mini is the 2014 model. Personally, I'm hoping that doesn't remain true for long...
+1. The only hard drive i've ever had fail on me (knock on wood) was from them. Stuff seems way too expensive for the quality.
That's why I avoided OCZ until now, to see how the Toshiba controller goes (at the least, I expected it to be an Indilinx derivative).
And it's why I'm not ready to trust Seagate SSDs (SSHDs are OK).
It puzzles me when companies buy poisoned brands, and even keep on using them.
No TRIM, no bootcamp support, questionable controller decisions.
Pass.
Edit: also FileVault is not supported either.
So, if you want more space but don't mind sacrificing pretty much everything else compared to the official Apple drive (performance, features, reliability) then I guess it's not the worst thing out there.
Pass.
Edit: also FileVault is not supported either.
So, if you want more space but don't mind sacrificing pretty much everything else compared to the official Apple drive (performance, features, reliability) then I guess it's not the worst thing out there.
My problem with OWC is in the beginning they will use top-shelf components, controllers, etc. So the reviews will say how great they are, etc. But down the line, they will start using lower end stuff without telling anyone. I've been hit with this a couple times mainly for warranty parts.
Yeah. NVMe is a 4x PCIe connection. Though, Apple uses its own proprietary connector so you can’t just use any NVMe Solid State Drive.
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You might be able to desolder the RAM chips from the logic board and a couple of new RAM modules and then solder the new RAM chips to the logic board, but I don’t think I’d want to risk it. The RAM chips on the new modules might not even match the sockets on the logic board, at which point, it would be a waste of time and effort and it would have been an unnecessary risk. Somebody may have tried and succeeded and I just don’t know about it.
Hm, in the product specifications it actually says "TRIM: not supported".
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDAB2MB10K
I'm sure they meant natively supported.
OS X automatically enables Trim but only on genuine Apple drives.
There just saying if you don't manually enable it the drive will look after itself.
As for the performance comments from everyone else realistically you won't notice anything different between the factory drive and this in real world use.
I'm not so sure. This is what the marketing blurb says:
"OWC Aura PCIe-based flash storage upgrades are precisely engineered for your Mac, so you’ll never need to compromise your data by relying on complicated software hacks or TRIM enablers to get the most from your upgrade."
Doesn't sound to me like it can be activated using the shell command. Perhaps the controller simply can't do TRIM and purely relies on garbage collection (which is not as good once the drive starts filling up). Frankly, all this vague information is a turnoff for me.
Why oh why couldn't Apple use a standard format for once.
Then we could simply plop in a nice Samsung 950 Pro ...
The flash controller, the Silicon Magic 2256, does recognize TRIM commands, though.
See: http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...2256-controller-with-samsung-tlc-nand-review/
I bet if you're in El Capitan 10.11.3, you're just a 'trimforce enable' command away from activating TRIM.
See: http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...2256-controller-with-samsung-tlc-nand-review/
I bet if you're in El Capitan 10.11.3, you're just a 'trimforce enable' command away from activating TRIM.
Only if OWC's firmware enables it. Would be nice to get a clear statement from them (especially since it's not that easy to determine if TRIM actually works without doing some long-term testing).
I'm an Aperture user that benefits from large capacity drives for media creation. I guess I'm just one of those customers Apple has no need for anymore.
Storage is the primary reason I'm stuck on a 2012 15" MBP with dual drive 256GB SSD/2TB HDD. I wish I had a lighter machine with retina screen but I can't give up my internal storage solution so I'm riding this out until it dies and then I'll have to figure out what to do later. I really hope a solution comes along but I don't think there's anything in the pipeline for dinosaurs like me.
Storage is the primary reason I'm stuck on a 2012 15" MBP with dual drive 256GB SSD/2TB HDD. I wish I had a lighter machine with retina screen but I can't give up my internal storage solution so I'm riding this out until it dies and then I'll have to figure out what to do later. I really hope a solution comes along but I don't think there's anything in the pipeline for dinosaurs like me.
I'm in the same boat except with music and still have a rather large photography collection as well that I do for fun. I started with Macs in 1993 and they were always user friendly to upgrade stuff and at a point, seemed like Jobs had even made things easier with the early iMacs I believe. They were always an artist tool that the windows world could never compete with, though those times have changed. I think they gave up on their base in favor of more money and while I can't blame them, I think having over $100,000,000,000+ in cash or cash equivalents is probably enough to make some machines that won't sell a ton, but will continue to support their artist base that kept them alive through the 80's and 90's. I appreciate the thin, lightweight great looking retina macbook pros, but without any real user upgrades available, I don't see myself upgrading to them anytime soon, not for $3000+ for a top of the line macbook pro I can't ever upgrade in any way.
