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One of our favorite stops at CES consistently seems to be the Other World Computing Booth where Larry O’Connor and Team always seem to have something new on the go in the world of SSDs. This year was no different. First off, the OWC team has always been on the cutting edge of Apple SSD updates, regardless of Apple’s frequent …

Since Day One in the SSD arena, there has been a constant struggle where a seemingly three way tug of war is seen between performance, capacity and value. Enter TLC memory and we just may hit both value and capacity at some point, however, manufacturers still believe the feasibility of marketing a 1TB SSD just isn’t there yet. This a …

Every now and then its nice to break away from the SSD world just a bit and take a look at traditional storage innovations.  With that, I called up our friends at OWC and asked them to send me their Mercury Elite Pro Storage Solution for a quick look. After all, I thought it might be nice to see what …

Our report today is going to take a look at the OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and we guarantee that is unlike any you will ever see. In fact, we don’t know of many others who could even pull this off! In this report, we will not only cover the Helios as it was shipped to us with …

With the popularity of mSATA SSDs being all the rage as of late, it was only a matter of time before a new PCIe adapter was introduced that might allow users to take advantage of that extra storage should they find an mSATA SSD at a great price. Our review today will look at the new OWC Mercury AccelsiorM mSATA …

OWC has today announced  a little something that the SSD industry seems to have overlooked, but had to find its way to the surface eventually. This is a PCIe Controller Card that accommodates mSATA SSDs and it has been aptly named the OWC Mercury AccelsiorM PCIe Controller Card.  Given its ability, I am sure we will be seeing one of …

Sonnet Technologies has announced the release of its 2.5″ Tempo SSD cards. The “Pro” variant will support up to two SATA 6 GB/s SSDs configured in RAID 0 in order to provide an aggregate bandwidth of up to 900MB/s while the non-pro version provides accommodations for one drive. The Tempo SSD and SSD Pro cards will be priced at 149.95 …

This SSD report will be a detailed analysis of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD, the first and only third party SSD compatible with the new 2012 MacBook Air. This report will also carry things a step further by detailing our migration of the Aura Pro into our 2012 MBA, a system that we had successfully set up …

These just may be the worlds first official pictures of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSD for the new 2012 MacBook Air and our thanks definitely go to OWC for sending us this SSD so quickly. We should also thank the Electronista for breaking the news as this allowed us a bit of leverage with respect to early release of …

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced the release of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express / Mercury Aura Envoy as the industry’s first high-performance Solid State Drive upgrade and bus-powered enclosure bundle for 2010-2011 MacBook Air computers.  OWC is referring to this as a “Dream Team” of performance and convenience.  The Mercury Aura Bundle includes a Mercury Aura Pro Express …