Overview
Give your Mac Pro tower or PC a 6G performance boost
The 480GB OWC 6G SSD and OWC Accelsior S DIY bundle is the simple solution to add a high speed SATA 6G drive to PCs or silver Mac Pro towers otherwise restricted to 3G architecture. Combined with the high-performance Mercury Extreme SSD, Accelsior S brings cutting edge 6G performance to your SATA 3G system.
High-performance storage
With sustained reads up to 559MB/s and writes up to 527MB/s, up to 100X greater data protection than enterprise class Hard Disk Drives, and RAISE technology for RAID like data protection and reliability, the OWC Mercury Extreme SSD line delivers unbeatable performance that's backed by a 5 year OWC SSD Limited Warranty.
Internal storage expansion at lightning speed
With more than 500 MB/s of throughput, the Accelsior S dual-lane PCIe 2.0 card delivers flexible storage expansion – with a speed boost – to your Mac or PC. Accelsior S is the perfect complement to OWC's Mercury family of high-performance SSD's, allowing up to an extra 1TB of fast storage expansion.
With no drivers or extra software needed, upgrading your Mac Pro or PC tower with a Mercury Extreme Pro and Accelsior S is a breeze.
- Add extra storage to your PC or Mac
- High-performance Mercury Extreme SSD
- High performance Accelsior S dual-lane PCIe 2.0 card
- Sustained reads up to 559MB/s and writes up to 527MB/s
- 100X greater data protection than enterprise class HDDs.
- RAISE technology
- Brings cutting edge 6G performance to your SATA 3G system
- Plug and Play. No drivers required
Video
OWC's step-by-step video of how to and install the OWC Accelsior S PCIe storage card.
Compatibility
Compatible with the devices listed below.
Mac Pro
Specifications
- PRODUCT
- OWC MERCURY EXTREME SSD
- NAND Flash Components
- Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) High-Performance Sync-NAND Flash
- Form Factor
- 2.5"
- Interface
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- SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gb/s) compliant
- Supports SATA Revision 2.0 (6Gb/s) and 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)
- RAID Support
- RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN
- SMART Attributes
- Standard
- Performance
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- Sustained Reads: 559MB/s
- Sustained Writes: 527MB/s
- Format
- Unformatted
- Security
- Chip based data encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant
- I/O Per Second (IOPS)
- Random 4KB: up to 60,000 IOP
- PRODUCT
- OWC ACCELSIOR S
- Form Factor
- Half height, half length
- HBA controller
- Asmedia 1062
- Interface
- PCIe 2.0 x2
- AHCI Compliant
- Yes – Plug and Play, no drivers required
- Total Dimensions
- L: 22cm x H: 13.5cm x W: 3.5cm
- Total Weight
- 270g
What's in the box?
- 1 x 480GB OWC Mercury Extreme 6G SSD
- 1 x Accelsior S PCIe to 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD Host Adapter
- 1 x OWC Accelsior S Quick Start Guide
Warranty
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
Part Number
- OWCSSDACL6G480