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- Easily expands your internal storage
- Included SSD increases drive longevity and performance
- Included AdaptaDrive makes installation simple
- 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty
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A perfect combination
Experience the extreme performance of an OWC SSD upgrade with this easy DIY AdaptaDrive and Mercury Electra 3G Kit. AdaptaDrive enables you to install the high-speed Mercury SSD in an available 3.5" SATA drive bay in moments, delivering phenomenal transfer speeds and outstanding reliability.
Fast and reliable solid-state storage
Delivering the latest in flash NAND and controller technology, utilizing SLC and 3D NAND for long-lasting, power-efficient performance. Mercury Electra 3G SSD's offer a powerful combination of performance and reliability for demanding everyday computer users.
Unlike traditional hard disk drives, OWC SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, and highly rugged storage solution that also offers near-instantaneous system response.
Maintains the highest performance while offering ultimate convenience
The NewerTech AdaptaDrive has been benchmark test proven to deliver the same data transfer rates as is experienced when a drive is connected directly to the SATA data bus. The AdaptaDrive doesn't create a bottleneck or any performance throttling — it delivers pure data pass-through performance and drive use convenience from any 2.5" SATA 1.5Gb/s, 3Gb/s, or 6Gb/s hard drive or SSD.
Includes
- (1) Mercury Electra 3G SSD
- (1) AdaptaDrive 2.5" to 3.5" Drive Converter Bracket
The best warranty is one you never have to use - but should the need occur - we're proud to provide a superior level of support and service coverage to our customers.
3 Year OWC SSD Limited Warranty
5 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty
Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry-leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.
- Available capacities: 250GB/ 500GB/ 1TB/ 2TB
- Manufacturer part numbers: OWCS3D7E3G250/ OWCS3D7E3G500/ OWCS3D7E3GT1.0/ OWCS3D7E3GT2.0
- Manufacturer part numbers (Bundle): OWCADPTA3G250/ OWCADPTA3G500/ OWCADPTA3G1TB/ OWCADPTA3G2TB
- Form Factor: 2.5-inch
- Interface: SATA 3.0 Gb/s
- RAID Support: Yes
- SMART Attributes: Standard 2
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
- Reach Certification: Yes
- Security: ATA Security Feature Command Set and Password Login Support
- Error Correction: Built-in ECC
- TRIM Support: OS Dependent
- Wear Leveling: Supported
- Nonrecoverable Read Error: Less than 1 sector per 10/15 bits read
- Mac OS Compatibility: Yes
- PC OS Compatibility: Yes
- Other Requirements: Requires a Mac, PC, or drive enclosure with an available SATA drive bay. SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) or faster is required for best performance.
- Sequential Read (Max): 274MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max): 253MB/s
- Shock: 1500 G max at 0.5 ms
- Temperature (°F) / (°C): 32°F to 158°F / 0°C to 70°C
- Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
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Newertech Adapta drive specification:
- Compatible with any 2.5" SATA hard drive or Solid State drive
- Fits all 3.5" SATA drive bays, including backplane trays found in the Mac Pro
- Fully SATA 3.0 Revision (6Gb/s) compatible
- Backward compatible with SATA 2.0 Revision (3Gb/s) and 1.0 Revision (1.5Gb/s) drives
- Open design allows for full air flow for proper drive cooling
- Material: Black painted aluminum
- Measurements: 5.77" L (146.7mm) x 3.98" W (101.2mm) x .35" H (9mm)
- Weight: 3.5 ounces
- 5-Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty
- Note: Temperature reporting is currently an unsupported feature because due to the operating characteristics of SSDs, it is highly unlikely one would ever exceed an OWC Mercury SSD's stated operating temperature ceiling of 158F/70C. However, we are looking into supporting this feature in the future via a firmware update. Firmware updates can be found here.
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iMac:
- Model ID: 20-inch iMac9,1 - A1224 - EMC 2266 Early 2009
- Model ID: 20-inch iMac9,1 - A1224 - EMC 2316 Mid 2009
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MacPro:
- 2006 | MacPro1,1 - A1186 - EMC2113
- 2007 | MacPro2,1 - A1186 - EMC2138
- 2008 | MacPro3,1 - A1186 - EMC2180
- 2009 | MacPro4,1 - A1289 - EMC2314
- 2010 | MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2314
- 2010 | MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2314-2
- 2012 | MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2629