Overview
OWC Aura Pro X2 Gen4 NVMe SSD
A Mac’s small stock SSD can fill up quickly — especially with photos, video files, games, and even your email. When storage gets tight, there's no reason to ditch the Mac you know and love. The OWC Aura Pro X2 provides up to 16 x more capacity, and the speed to keep up with your imagination. With that capacity and power, you can keep your Mac running optimally for years — all at a fraction of the cost of buying new.
Blazing Fast and Super Cool
Aura Pro X2 combines speed, stamina, and efficiency that will change the way you experience your Mac. With read speeds reaching 2989MB/s and write speeds of 1208MB/s, Aura Pro X2 is up to 2 x faster than the factory Apple SSD, delivering performance on par with the latest Mac models. Calibrated to use less power and run cooler, Aura Pro X2 SSDs are the best way to upgrade your Mac.
Enhanced Burst Performance
In addition to groundbreaking read and write speeds, the Aura Pro X2 is engineered with enhanced burst performance for instant full-speed write acceleration. Media projects and games stream fluidly and respond without lag on Aura Pro X2 enhanced Macs. You might even forget what that beachball looks like.
Built for Your Mac
Aura Pro X2 is designed for macOS to take full advantage of the advanced features of APFS (Apple File System) 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. All that adds up to one heckuva drive that’s built to make your Mac perform at its best.
7% Over-Provisioning
OWC SSDs perform maintenance tasks in the background that optimise the health, performance, and endurance of your drive. These tasks utilise available unwritten space on the SSD. Aura Pro X2 SSDs reserve 7% of the overall drive capacity as free space to perform these normal maintenance tasks — making your drive a stable, dependable, and safe place to store all of your data.
15 Minute DIY Upgrade
Transform your Mac with Aura Pro X2 speed and capacity. OWC Install Videos guide you step-by-step through the install process.
- 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
Compatibility
Compatible with the devices listed below.
MacBook Air
MacBook Pro
Mac Pro
iMac
Mac mini
Specifications
- Capacity
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- 500GB useable capacity
- Total flash memory components: 512GB
- 12GB allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
- Formatted Capacity
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- 466GiB
- Controller
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- Innogrit IG5220 with 3% over-provisioning
- NAND Flash Components
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- Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
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- Up to 32 simultaneous commands
- Form Factor
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- Custom blade
- Storage Interface
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- PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.4
- Sequential Read (Max)
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- Up to 3335MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max)
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- Up to 3271MB/s
- Average Access Time
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- <0.1 ms
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
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- 1,500,000 hours
- TRIM Support
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- OS dependent
- Error Correction
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- Built-in ECC
- Endurance
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- 1000TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 392 GB per day for 7 years
- Mac OS Compatibility
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- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- 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
- Read Mode (Max)
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- Up to 1.39 Watts
- Write Mode (Max)
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- Up to 1.13 Watts
- Idle Mode (Max)
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- Up to 0.09 Watts
- RoHS Compliant
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- Yes
- REACH Certification
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- Yes
- Dimensions
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- H: 3 x L: 89 x W: 22 mm
- Weight
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- 7 g
What's in the box?
- 1 x OWC Aura Pro X2 Gen4 NVMe SSD
Warranty
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
Part Number
- OWCSP4P1T1AT.5