Tight deadlines long nights and terabytes of media – your Mac has been with you through it all. If storage is tight there’s no reason to ditch the Mac you know and love. The Aura® Pro X2 Gen4 SSD gives you up to 16 times more space and the speed to keep up with your imagination today and tomorrow. Upgrade your Mac with Aura Pro X2 Gen4 SSD for a fraction of the cost of a new model and keep your Mac running for years. Aura Pro X2 Gen4 combines speed stamina and efficiency that will change the way you experience your Mac. With read speeds reaching 3335MB/s and write speeds of 3271MB/s the 1TB Aura Pro X2 Gen4 is up to twice as fast as the original SSDs delivering performance on par with the latest models. It runs cooler and consumes less power than earlier SSD models so you can run at peak for longer than ever. When it’s go time getting off the line and maintaining a high level of performance are equally important. Aura Pro X2 Gen4 is engineered with advanced SLC caching providing instant full-speed write acceleration meaning those media projects and games stream fluidly and respond without lag time. You might even forget what that beachball looks like. Aura Pro X2 Gen4 is designed for the latest macOS versions (macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later) taking full advantage of the advanced features of APFS including strong encryption copy-on-write metadata space sharing cloning for files and directories snapshots fast directory sizing atomic safe-save primitives and improved file system fundamentals. FEATURES: High performance for high demands Read speeds up to 3335MB/s Write speeds up to 3271MB/s Consumes less power and runs cooler Designed for macOS 10.13 and beyond NVMe – PCIe 4.0 x4 SPECIFICATIONS: Controller: Innogrit IG5220 with 3% over-provisioning NAND: 3D TLC Synchronous Triple level cell NAND Flash Form Factor: Custom blade Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 Capacity: 1000GB of usable capacity Total Flash Memory Components: 2048GB 48GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction Formatted Capacity: 996GiB Drive Format: APFS for Mac Native Command Queuing: up to 32 commands Sequential Read: Up to 3335MB/s Sequential Write: Up to 3271MB/s Average Access Time: <0.1ms MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures): 15000000 hours TRIM Support: OS Dependent Error Correction: Built-in ECC Endurance: 1000TB total bytes written (TBW) equal to 392 GB per day for 70 days OS Requirements: macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later macOS 10.14 Mojave macOS 10.15 Catalina macOS 11.x Big Sur macOS 12.x Monterey macOS 13.x Ventura macOS 14.x Sonoma Host Requirements: Must upgrade to macOS 10.13 or later before installation RoHS Compliant: Yes Format: Unformatted Dimensions: 8.9 x 2.2 x 0.3 cm Weight: 7 g WHAT’S IN THE BOX: OWC 1.0TB Aura Pro X2 SSD – Blue x1 (For Mac Pro w/ Retina Display Late 2013-Mid 2015 and Macbook Air Mid 2013-Mid 2017)