New SSD for MacBook Air

Apple’s history with SSDs

Apple was in big trouble last year, when the demand for their Mac devices was at its peak. The MacBooks sold millions of units last year, but the year wasn’t completely trouble-free for Apple. The unexpected chaos caused by the flood in Thailand last year also had some disastrous consequences in the computer hardware sector. It is the manufacturers in Thailand that provide hard disk drives for Apple which comes in the Apple devices. But with the flooding, Apple found it hard to include hard disk drives in their MacBooks.

Apple had to go for an alternative for hard disk drives and used the Solid state drives (SSD) instead. The solid state drives are more powerful and faster making your computer faster even during boot ups. Eventually Apple got back on its feet and things just became normal. But many people now believe that MacBooks should feature SSD drives with greater capacities. If you use the SSD drive in your MacBooks for storage, you will notice that it is pretty fast in read/write operations.

New SSD for MacBook Airs

MacBook Airs now come with Solid state drives but of low capacities. The present Solid state drives in MacBook Airs also don’t reach top read/write speeds, and would go only till half their top speeds. But there are better Solid state drives. The SSD manufactured by Other World Computing (OWC) sports a SandForce memory controller which enables the drive to function at its maximum speed, reaching to up to 500 MB per second.

OWC now released a bigger model of SSDs with a capacity twice as that of the present SSD capacity. If you are wondering if the SSD drives will lose their speeds proportionately with an increase in their capacities, you are wrong. The 480 GB OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD coming in the new MacBook Airs deliver the peak speed of an SSD even at this large a size. Data block management techniques and advanced free space management “recycling” techniques in the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSDs mean more optimization isn’t necessary in the OWC SSDs.

The Mercury Aura Pro SSDs will be at full potential through out their lifespan. Data protection in this SSD is 100 times more than that provided by the greatest of the HDDs. Aura Pro OWC 480 GB SSDs are compatible with both MacBook Air sizes, with 3 year warranty. However, this cool hardware does come at a big price…….literally. It costs about $1,100 approximately. If it sounds a bit expensive, you will have a second opinion when you see for yourself, how fast the Mercury Aura Pro 480 GB SSD is in your MacBook Air.