Hard Drives/Solid State Drives

Get Back in the Game

After years of good, hard work, storage on your Mac is getting tight and load times and data transfers lag. You've invested years of gear, programs and customizations and it's not the time to switch. Upgrade with OWC Aura® N2 to make your Mac fast and more spacious than ever - for a fraction of the cost of a new model - and keep everything else just the way you like it.

Stretch Out and Run

Aura N expands your Mac with up to 1TB of storage space, so you can add to your media, games, and apps without picking favorites. It's advanced NVMe technology revives read speeds up to 2382MB/s write speeds up to 1732MB/s, giving your Mac the power to run like new again.

Sprints and Marathons

Aura N2 combines speed and stamina to prepare your Mac for the short race and the long haul. Engineered with advanced SLC caching, this SSD provides incredible burst performance for a faster and more responsive experience. Plus, the extra storage and speed can increase the working life of your Mac by years.

Right-Sized for Work and Play

The smaller stock SSDs for Mac can fill up quickly, especially with photo and video files, games, or even your email. Aura N2 SSDs are available in capacities up to 1TB, giving you more space to work and play. Newly calibrated to use less power and run cooler, Aura N2 is the best way to upgrade your PCIe equipped Mac.

No Hassles or Hacks Compatibility

Aura N2 SSD upgrades are precisely engineered for your Mac laptop, 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. Just install, migrate your data, and enjoy the great performance of flash storage with up to 8 times the capacity of the original drive.

7% Over Provisioning

OWC SSDs perform maintenance tasks in the background that optimize the health, performance, and endurance of your drive. These jobs take advantage of available, unwritten areas on the SSD. Aura N2 storage reserves 7% of the overall capacity as free space. Always. With this allocated free space, Aura N2 SSDs can perform these normal maintenance tasks making your drive more stable, dependable, and ultimately a safer place to store your data.

Quality That Lasts

Aura N2 SSDs are proudly designed in Austin and are backed by a lifetime of free, award-winning support.

Up to 4x More Storage Capacity

The Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G is the capacity giant that crushes all other SATA SSDs. By stuffing an astounding industry highest 16TB in its 2.5-inch form factor, this SSD lets you utilize up to 4x more storage capacity per drive in your Mac or PC, external drives, storage arrays, and servers.

The Highest Level of Security

Highest-level security protocols are used to ensure data stored in the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G is safe from loss, theft, or repurposing. Data is automatically stored in AES-256 encryption...the strongest format used by the U.S. government to ensure national security.

Protects Against the Unexpected

Built to deliver enterprise class reliability, the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G keeps your data safe even during life's unexpected events. SmartFlush™ technology provides the critical additional time to finish a data write in the event of a power loss or system failure.

Uses Less Space and Power

Featuring a 2.5-inch form factor, the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G takes up 8x less space than a 3.5-inch HDD. And with a miserly 3.8W active/2.0W idle power consumption, it uses 38% less power than a 16TB HDD. Space-saving, cool running, energy efficient...the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G makes your data storage better in all ways.

Ideal LTO Tape Archiving Staging Drive

Huge volumes of data are stored on LTO tape because it's the lowest cost/longest life storage format. Adding the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G as a high capacity "staging drive" to LTO archiving solutions like the Mercury Pro LTO enables faster transfer of large data files to the tape drive. Imagine...being able to load up a 12TB LTO-8 tape in one smooth fast process!

Meet the Fastest OWC SSD Ever Built

When OWC launched its first Solid State Drive in 2010, it was engineered to deliver the same attribute formula that Mac and PC users expected from OWC external storage solutions:

High performance + high reliability + affordable price = The OWC Difference

Nearly a decade later, our commitment to that winning formula remains steadfast as we push the boundaries of leading-edge SSD development with the Accelsior 4M2. It's ideal for uncompromised, data intensive, high bandwidth needs like large format video editing, VR/AR/MR environments, high transactional and complex calculation applications, and extreme gaming.

Accelsior 4M2 houses four OWC Aura Ultra III NVMe M.2 SSDs under a finned heat sink cover that provides silent, throttle-free cooling. These "blade" style SSDs utilize Quad-Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND with SLC caching and a Phison E12 controller with 7% over-provisioning.

All those "ingredients" combine to deliver over 6,000MB/s real-world speed with the highest reliability possible to satisfy the biggest storage performance appetite.

Highly Versatile with Mobile Possibilities

Whether you have the Mac Pro 2019, a Mac Pro 2012 or 2010, or PC tower, Accelsior 4M2 can go to work for you. As a half-length x8/x16 compatible card, this game-changer offers the versatility you need, so you"re not tied to one slot size or limited by a space-confined computer case.

You can also enjoy the performance boosting benefits of Accelsior 4M2 with your Thunderbolt 3-equipped notebook computer, iMac workstation, or slot filled gaming rig. It's plug-and-play easy with a PCIe expansion chassis like theOWC Mercury Helios 3S.

Change Your Reality

Accelsior 4M2 offers performance gains in so many diverse ways that it will change your storage reality:

• Stream and edit high-res video and graphics files without a glitch.
• Experience faster previews, renders, and processing in VFX programs.
• Keep page scenery and textures looking sharp and flowing uninterrupted in virtual reality environments.
• Enhance the realism of augmented reality visualizations.
• Change levels seamlessly and play simulation and MMO games with continuously changing scenery or heavy mods without micro-stuttering.
• Give your computer a significant speed boost with improved system "snappiness," a fast OS boot drive, or a bottleneck-free scratch drive.

The Most Powerful RAID Tool on the Planet.

SoftRAID is the world's fastest and most flexible application to configure, maintain, and protect your RAID volumes on Mac and PC. OWC enclosures include 3 Years of SoftRAID Premium.

• High-PerformanceRAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10) volumes
• Predictive Health Monitoringproactively notifies of Volume and Disk issues well before failure - provided on your computer and remotely
• 35+ Years of Experienceof Pro Support to provide peace-of-mind with setup help, ongoing questions, or urgent disk issues
• And many more unique features.
• Learn more about SoftRAID

SoftRAID works with macOS 10.14+, Windows 10+, and Windows Server 2019/2022. M1 Macs require macOS 11.3 or later. SoftRAID is licensed per computer.

Professional Grade = Ready to Work

We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That's why every Accelsior 4M2 pre-configured solution undergoes a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures your Accelsior 4M2 arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.

Learn More

Meet the Fastest OWC SSD Ever Built

When OWC launched its first Solid State Drive in 2010, it was engineered to deliver the same attribute formula that Mac and PC users expected from OWC external storage solutions:

High performance + high reliability + affordable price = The OWC Difference

Nearly a decade later, our commitment to that winning formula remains steadfast as we push the boundaries of leading-edge SSD development with the Accelsior 4M2. It's ideal for uncompromised, data intensive, high bandwidth needs like large format video editing, VR/AR/MR environments, high transactional and complex calculation applications, and extreme gaming.

Accelsior 4M2 houses four OWC Aura Ultra III NVMe M.2 SSDs under a finned heat sink cover that provides silent, throttle-free cooling. These "blade" style SSDs utilize Quad-Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND with SLC caching and a Phison E12 controller with 7% over-provisioning.

All those "ingredients" combine to deliver over 6,000MB/s real-world speed with the highest reliability possible to satisfy the biggest storage performance appetite.

Highly Versatile with Mobile Possibilities

Whether you have the Mac Pro 2019, a Mac Pro 2012 or 2010, or PC tower, Accelsior 4M2 can go to work for you. As a half-length x8/x16 compatible card, this game-changer offers the versatility you need, so you're not tied to one slot size or limited by a space-confined computer case.

You can also enjoy the performance boosting benefits of Accelsior 4M2 with your Thunderbolt 3-equipped notebook computer, iMac workstation, or slot filled gaming rig. It's plug-and-play easy with a PCIe expansion chassis like theOWC Mercury Helios 3S.

Change Your Reality

Accelsior 4M2 offers performance gains in so many diverse ways that it will change your storage reality:

• Stream and edit high-res video and graphics files without a glitch.
• Experience faster previews, renders, and processing in VFX programs.
• Keep page scenery and textures looking sharp and flowing uninterrupted in virtual reality environments.
• Enhance the realism of augmented reality visualizations.
• Change levels seamlessly and play simulation and MMO games with continuously changing scenery or heavy mods without micro-stuttering.
• Give your computer a significant speed boost with improved system "snappiness," a fast OS boot drive, or a bottleneck-free scratch drive.

The Most Powerful RAID Tool on the Planet.

SoftRAID is the world's fastest and most flexible application to configure, maintain, and protect your RAID volumes on Mac and PC. OWC enclosures include 3 Years of SoftRAID Premium.

• High-PerformanceRAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10) volumes
• Predictive Health Monitoringproactively notifies of Volume and Disk issues well before failure - provided on your computer and remotely
• 35+ Years of Experienceof Pro Support to provide peace-of-mind with setup help, ongoing questions, or urgent disk issues
• And many more unique features.
• Learn more about SoftRAID

SoftRAID works with macOS 10.14+, Windows 10+, and Windows Server 2019/2022. M1 Macs require macOS 11.3 or later. SoftRAID is licensed per computer.

Professional Grade = Ready to Work

We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That's why every Accelsior 4M2 pre-configured solution undergoes a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures your Accelsior 4M2 arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.

Learn More

Astonishingly, Mind-Blowingly Holy Cow Fast

Whether it leaves you speechless in amazement or uttering colorful phrases, the Accelsior 8M2 can be summed up in one definitive sentence:

It's the fastest, highest capacity PCIe SSD in the galaxy.

This beast destroys performance barriers and every PCIe SSD on the market today. So much so that we considered naming it the Annihil8r! We continuously push the boundaries of SSD capabilities so you can realize your true potential. With the Accelsior 8M2, we're taking you beyond your wildest dreams and into the most demanding applications imaginable with certified reliability. From M&E postproduction, to real-time AI, to huge dataset climate research... you now have the power to confidently reach higher.

Obliterates Workflow Bottlenecks

As storage performance innovators, we know that bottlenecks cramp your style. The Accelsior 8M2 was purposely created to be the fastest drive you can use in any workflow. With eight on-board NVMe SSDs and speeds up to 12,000MB/s on the PCIe Gen 3 equipped 2019 Mac Pro, video editors have the real world speed for sustaining the most demanding VFX, color, and high-end video editing including seamless playback of:

• 16 streams of 8K ProRes444 in Final Cut Pro X
• 8 streams of 12K ProRes444 in Final Cut Pro X
• 9 streams of 4K 16bit EXR in DaVinci Resolve

Now you have the overhead to go faster, process more, and save almost limitlessly.

Ultra-Reliable Design

Creating the fastest PCIe SSD meant combining bold engineering with the latest technology. Each of the Accelsior 8M2's eight NVMe SSDs run at their full x4 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 data throughput. All that insanely fast speed is pumped through a full PCIe x16 lane architecture. And to ensure Accelsior 8M2 keeps running at peak speed for the long haul, there's a quiet cooling fan in the aircraft grade aluminum heat sink. And when PCIe Gen 4 SSDs and systems become more widely available, it's an easy upgrade to experience speeds over 26,000MB/s on a PCIe Gen 4 machine, No compromises. No surrender. Just the ultra-reliable performance that Mac and PC users have come to depend on from OWC storage solutions.

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