Waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process will become a distant memory business critical applications are given an instant boost and game level loading, object streaming, and save times can be reduced for more play time and less waiting. User-Friendly, Yet Robust for Demanding UsesĪs easy to install as a memory module, yet robust enough to handle the rigors of professional multimedia production environments, the half-height AccelsiorM card is the clear choice for Mac Pro and PC owners who desire the maximum performance from their 3G data bus-based machines.

By utilizing the fastest data interface available in a Mac Pro or PC-the PCIe slot-the Mercury AccelsiorM can offer data transfer speeds that exceed 3Gb/s SSDs….up to 380MB/s. Other World Computing today introduced the OWC Mercury AccelsiorM, a Mac and PC-bootable, fully supported PCIe controller card that accepts any standard 50mm mSATA Solid State Drive. Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 | Author: OWC NewsFeed Now would it be possible Apple is already using an early SATA Express implementation? Knowing their habits of adding draft implementation of standards (Thunderbolt, 802.11n, OpenAL.) it wouldn't be surprising.OWC Mercury AccelsiorM PCIe Controller Card Offers Plug and Play mSATA SSD Performance Boost to Mac Pros and PCs (SSD on the left, the would be mini-PCIe on the right).īut as mini-PCIe is supposed to support mSATA and these are clearly not compatible, what is it? Draft revision or unreleased port? Now if wee look at the motherboard of the Macbook Air we can clearly see the SSD slot next to PCIe slot and how similar they are, if not suspiciously identical: And if some pins were optional the fact that the other side of the SSD has no connectors clearly excludes any compatibility between the 2 connectors: Until I saw a side by side image of a standard mSATA SSD next to a MBA one :Ĭlearly, it's not a duck. Then I saw on multiple websites references to mSATA in the MBA and decided to follow this lead when I found a source I trusted.

But my MBA is sealed with those pentalobe screws and none of my screwdrivers can get them to move. What then?Īfter looking closely at pictures of the different drives I decided to find out. When I first saw the gumstick SSD drive I thought it was using a SATA Express connector.īut when answering a question yesterday I decided to get a bit more documentation about it and appeared SATA Express along with µSSD is not a released standard yet. I wonder what kind of connector is used in the latest MacBook Air for the SATA drive.

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