Owc 240gb Mercury Accelsior Pcie Ssd For Mac
It seems that OWC has been at it once again and we recently received a new OWC Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD, fitted with two 240GB blade SSDs for excellent performance and capacity once again. The Accelsior is the latest design of the OWC engineering team and contains two 6Gbps eSATA ports that provide for external storage up to 32TB as well as. Search This Blog Mac Me Up Share.
The 240GB Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD Card from Other World Computing is a high-performance solid-state drive that connects to the PCIe slot in your Mac or PC computer. You will actually be able to boot from the Mercury Accelsior E2 as a Plug-and-Play solution.
With its custom SandForce Driven Accelsior SSD blades, the Mercury Accelsior E2 card enables Mac and PC users to enjoy a more responsive and productive computing experience along with cooler, quieter and more energy efficient operation, especially when compared to traditional mechanical hard disk drives. There are also two eSATA ports on the card so you can connect your external storage drives to the system. Offering nearly three times the performance of a regular solid-state drive in a SATA 2.0 3 Gb/s drive bay, the Mercury Accelsior E2 is suitable for I/O-intensive applications such as Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Pro Tools. Rendering, capturing and processing media files require high sustained data transfer speeds and the Mercury Accelsior E2 delivers with up to a 762 MB/s read speed and up to a 763 MB/s write speed. Keep in mind that those speeds are when the Mercury Accelsior is connected to a Sandy Bridge Intel processor. Mac and PC Bootable with No Driver Setup The Mercury Accelsior E2 is bootable on PC and Mac computers.
The Mercury Accelsior E2 delivers near instant startup and app launching. And with a driverless setup, it's truly a high-performance Plug and Play solution.
You do have an option to download a driver for Mac Pro computers, which ensures proper powering down of Mercury Accelsior E2 during sleep and shutdown actions. However, this driver has nothing to do with the data operation of the Mercury Accelsior E2 and Mac Pro computers A More Efficient & Reliable Computing Experience Massively boosting data transfer rates is only one of the benefits to the Mercury Accelsior E2. With its custom SandForce Driven SSD blades, you'll experience a more responsive, quiet and energy efficient computing experience. Those benefits don't come at the expense of reliability however since SandForce RAISE technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability User Friendly, Professionally Robust Simple enough for mainstream business use, yet robust enough for professional multimedia production environments, the Mercury Accelsior E2 is the clear choice for pro audio and video studios producing HD-quality work. This high performance upgrade is designed and built in the U.S. From domestic and imported parts as well as backed by a three-year limited warranty Easy Installation If you can install a RAM memory module, you'll find adding this high-performance card into your desktop/tower machine is a breeze. By utilizing a PCIe slot in an Apple Mac Pro or PC, the Mercury Accelsior E2 offers nearly 3x faster performance than a 3 Gb/s SSD and also faster than 6 Gb/s SSDs High Performance and Fast Read/Write Speeds Experience supercharged speeds up to 762 MB/s read and 763 MB/s write and stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process.
With up to 100K IOP/s, business critical applications are given an instant boost while Accelsior E2's extreme performance speed dramatically reduces game level-loading, object streaming, and save times for more play time and less waiting SandForce Technologies DuraWrite extends the endurance of your Mercury Accelsior E2. Intelligent block leveling and wear leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire Mercury Accelsior E2. Intelligent read distribution 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 Mercury Accelsior E2 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. ECC (Error Correcting Code) protection allows for long data retention and drive life Compatibility PC Throughput. PCIe 2.0 x4 slot or better is required.
Use of a PCIe 1.0 x4 slot will reduce performance. Mac Pro Throughput. 2009-2010 Mac Pro: Installing Accelsior E2 into any open x4 or x16 PCIe 2.0 slot will deliver full throughput up to 785 MB/s.
2008 Mac Pro: These models have two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, which enable Accelsior E2 to deliver full throughput up to 785 MB/s. Installing Accelsior E2 into of the two x4 PCIe 1.0 slots will result in Accelsior E2 being addressed as a gen one, one-lane card with performance limited to real world 190 to 200 MB/s data rates. 2006-2007 Mac Pro: These models utilize PCIe 1.0 slot which cannot be configured (even with the Expansion Utility in OS X) to address Accelsior E2 as anything but as a first generation one-lane card. As a result, Accelsior E2 performance will be limited to 190to 200 MB/s data rates.
ESATA Expansion Ports. Compatible with all eSATA equipped storage solutions. (Requires 6 Gb/s certified cables for connecting to eSATA drives - available separately. Not compatible with port-multiplier enclosures.
The eSATA ports do not support hot-swapping. Accelsior E2 eSATA ports are bootable.). A sleep conflict may be encountered when using certain eSATA chipsets via the eSATA ports when booted to the Accelsior E2. See the specifications tab for affected solutions where System Sleep mode MUST be disabled in order to ensure reliable operation. Allowing system sleep to occur while one of the affected external drives is connected via the Accelsior E2 eSATA ports could result in loss of data following wake from sleep. Although the above are our general recommendations for use, wake from sleep has been determined to only be an issue when the Accelsior PCIe is used for startup (SSD or eSATA connected device). We are working with our partners to see that the sleep/wake function is fully supported with all solutions and startup scenarios.
Dual Card Use/Booting. Dual Accelsior E2 Usage: The use of two or more Accelsior E2 SSDs requires OS X 10.6.8 or later. 2008 Mac Pro (with model ID MacPro3,1): only supported in PCIe slots #3 & #4. All models: To boot Windows via Bootcamp on Accelsior E2, only one Accelsior E2 SSD can be installed. 2006-2008 Mac Pro (with model ID MacPro1,1; MacPro2,1; MacPro3,1): Due to an Apple limitation, any volume located on a Mercury Accelsior E2 SSD will not appear in the 'option boot' menu.
A volume installed on an Accelsior E2 can be set as the Mac Pro's boot volume through the 'Startup Disk' pane in System Preferences. Drive Type SSD Form Factor PCIe card Noise Level 0.0 dB (Active) 0.0 dB (Idle) Flash Controller SandForce SF-2281 Flash Memory Type Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash Memory Grade Grade A / Tier 1 ECC Recovery 55 Bytes per 512 Bytes Encryption 128-Bit AES Hardware Encryption Operating Temperature 32 to 158°F / 0 to 70°C Storage Temperature -67 to 302°F / -55 to 150°C Interface 2 x eSATA II Certifications AHCI, ENERGY STAR, RoHS, as per Manufacturer Dimensions (W x H x D) 4.7 x 0.8 x 7.1' / 12.0 x 2.1 x 18.0 cm Weight 3.0 oz / 85.0 g Package Weight 0.7 lb Box Dimensions (LxWxH) 9.7 x 7.1 x 3.2'. Rated 3 out of 5 by NickName from Had issues with first two. Third one ok I had major issues with this product. I had to return two of them before I got something that worked properly. The first one the manufacture forgot to stripe the drive so it was unusable.
The replacement had different issues (crashing constantly and also had a faulty port). The third one appears to be working ok. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as I lost way too much time trying to get all of this working.
Not terribly impressed that I would have the misfortune of getting two faulty OWC products in a row. Rated 1 out of 5 by Maximo C. From First drive a total dud I ordered one of these drives to be a boot drive for my 2008 Mac Pro tower, with friends having total success and hitting incredible Read and write speeds. For me, well that wasn’t the case.
Owc 240gb Mercury Excelsior Pcie Ssd For Macbook Pro
Maxed out around 250mb/s Read and write, and eventually stopped booting without multiple restarts. I spoke to a (frankly pretty oblivious) representative at OWC who claimed that’s the regular response of the drive in speed test software, but upon second call with a better representative I was issued an RMA. Hoping the replacement isn’t a dud after they return it.