OWC's 6G Mercury Aura Pro Express uses a screaming SandForce SF-2281 controller and Toshiba Toggle NAND and when combined with the 2011 MBA's SATA 6 Gb/s interface pushes 511 MB/s read speeds and 448 MB/s write speeds according to OWC's benchmarks.Īll I can say is that the thing is fast. Apple basically hobbles the MacBook Air by shipping it with a SATA 3 Gb/s SSD. This means that the 2011 MBA is capable of pushing data rates to over 500MB/s - if you have the right SSD, that is. ![]() The 2011 MacBook Air comes with an unadvertised feature: support for the SATA 6 Gb/s interface - which has twice the bandwidth of the 3 Gb/s SATA bus in the 2010 MacBook Air. ![]() Back in February 2011 I called the OWC 3G Mercury Aura Pro Express Solid State Drive (SSD) upgrade for the 2010 MacBook Air the best upgrade that you can get because it bested the performance of the stock Apple SSD by a considerable margin and pushed data rates to over 275MB/second - or up to 68 percent faster than the Apple OEM SSD.
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