OWC Aura Pro 250GB 2012-13 macbook with Retina mSATA SSD

Overview:

OWC – 250GB Aura Pro – Solid-State Drive for Mac
For 2012 – early 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display

Features:

Designed for your Mac
Once again, OWC provides Mac users the only upgrade solution that delivers higher performance, functionality, and reliability! When first introduced, the MacBook Pro with Retina display base model offered a 256GB SSD configuration with no upgrade option. And current base models start from 128GB to 256GB. Now, instead of being “factory locked”, the OWC Aura Pro 6G gives you the freedom to upgrade your capacity to meet your storage needs. Just like other OWC upgrades, we include a free ‘how-to’ video to make this an easy and money-saving DIY upgrade.

The Aura Pro 6G SSD features a suite of industry leading controller technologies for performance and reliability.

• DuraWriteextends the endurance of your solid-state drive (SSD).
• RAISE(Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup.
• Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.

Highlights

• One of the fastest Internal SSDs available specifically for the MacBook Pro with Retina display
• OWC 5 Year SSD Limited Warranty
• 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.
• Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention and drive life.

Synchronous Interface NAND
To achieve the higher bandwidth potential of the SATA 6Gb/s bus standard, the OWC Aura Pro 6G SSDs utilize Tier-1 Synchronous NAND instead of commonly utilized Asynchronous NAND. Synchronous NAND enables reads and writes to be “synced” with the SSD processor’s clock signal for maximum data throughput.

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. This adds up to a MTTF that is higher than most SSDs and enterprise class hard drives on the market today.