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OWC DIY Upgrade Bundle with Mercury Extreme 6G, tools and external USB enclosure to change main hard drive for SSD on MacBook Pro Non-Retina Early 2011 to Mid 2012 and Mac Mini mid 2011 to late 2012
Get more storage when you upgrade/replace the existing 2.5" drive in your Mac.
- Backup and store your data with style and confidence.
- Take your data with you - small enough to keep in a pocket!
- Easily add additional laptop storage with no AC adapter required.
- Everything you need in one package, immediately ready to assemble
- 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty
Upgrade/Replace Your Internal Drive
The Drive and Tools you need to Upgrade/Replace the existing 2.5" Drive in your laptop, Mac mini, Xbox, PS3, etc + make the drive being replaced an External for data transfer, backup, and/or additional portable storage.
Everything you need in one package, immediately ready to assemble and:
- Backup and store your data with style and confidence.
- Take your data with you – small enough to keep in a pocket!
- Easily add additional laptop storage with no AC adapter required.
Real World Uses
Power Users / Travelers: Relocate your "home folder" to your Express and have your files with you at home, at work or on the road without the need to synchronize your machines.
Laptop Owners: Clone your current internal SATA hard drive in your laptop to the new drive. Then install the new, larger drive in your laptop and keep the smaller drive in your Express for additional storage space.
iTunes Aficionados: Keep a copy of your iTunes library on your external drive to play on multiple machines.
Gamers: Add additional storage to your XBox 360 or PS3 game console to store music, media, and other downloads. PS3 even includes a backup utility to protect your internal drive's data.
For Everyone: Have the piece of mind of a complete backup plan. Create a bootable clone of your hard drive at regular intervals so if your computer goes down, your productivity doesn't go down with it. Boot to another computer and keep on working!
Everything You Need – All in One Package
- OWC Express USB 3.2 (5Gb/s) Portable Storage Enclosure
- OWC Mercury Extreme 6G SSD
- OWC 5-Piece Mini Toolkit
- Nylon Spudger
- Phillips #00 Driver
- Straight Blade 1.8mm Driver
- Torx T8 Driver
- Torx T6 Driver
- High-Quality Double-Shielded USB Micro-B to USB-A Cable
- Assembly Manual & User Guide
- Quick Start Guide
- OWC Express Carrying Sleeve
Yes, You Can Do-It-Yourself. Watch video guides.
Includes
- (1) OWC Express USB 3.2 (5Gb/s) Portable Storage Enclosure
- (1) OWC Mercury Extreme 6G SSD
- (1) OWC 5-Piece Mini Toolkit
- (1) Nylon Spudger
- (1) Phillips #00 Driver
- (1) Straight Blade 1.8mm Driver
- (1) Torx T8 Driver
- (1) Torx T6 Driver
- (1) High-Quality Double-Shielded USB Micro-B to USB-A Cable
- (1) Assembly Manual & User Guide
- (1) Quick Start Guide
- (1) OWC Express Carrying Sleeve
- 5 Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Controller: Phison PS3112-S12 with 7% over-provisioning
- NAND: Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
- Form Factor: Standard 7mm 2.5-inch
- Capacity: 240GB/ 480GB/ 1TB/ 2TB/ 4TB
- Manufacturer part numbers: OWCS3D7P6G240/ OWCS3D7P6G480/ OWCS3D7P6G960/ OWCS3D7P6GS2.0/ OWCS3D7P6GS4.0
- Manufacturer part number kits: OWCY3SSD6X240/ OWCY3SSD6X480/ OWCY3SSD6X1TB/ OWCY3SSD6X2TB/ OWCY3SSD6X4TB
- Interface: SATA III 6Gb/s
- RAID Support: Yes
- SMART Attributes: Standard
- Data Reliability: Built-in BCH ECC: Up to 66 bits correctable per 1024 bytes
- Security: Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant
- Nonrecoverable Read Errors: Less than 1 sector per 10/16 bits read
- Sustained Reads 6G (up to): 550MB/s
- Sustained Writes 6G (up to): 530MB/s
- Random 4K Read: Up to 100,000 IOPS
- Random 4K Write: Up to 90,000 IOPS
- Warranty: 5 Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Use of any SSD in an external enclosure is dependent on the power available from the enclosure. OWC Mercury Electra 6G and Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs are engineered for use in any OWC Enclosure that supports 2.5-inch SSDs.
- OWC Express 2.5" SATA Hard Drive or Solid State Drive Enclosure
- High-Quality Double Shielded USB 3.0 connecting cable
- Printed Guide
- Carrying sleeve
- 1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
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MacBook Pro:
- 15-inch mid 2012 Model ID: MacBookPro9,1 - A1286 - EMC 2556
- 13-inch mid 2012 Model ID: MacBookPro9,2 - A1278 - EMC 2554
- 13-inch early 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,1 - A1278 - EMC 2419
- 13-inch late 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,1 - A1278 - EMC 2555
- 15-inch early 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,2 - A1286 - EMC 2353
- 15-inch late 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,2 - A1286 - EMC 2563
- 17-inch early 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,3 - A1297 - EMC 2352
- 17-inch late 2011 Model ID: MacBookPro8,3 - A1297 - EMC 2564
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Mac Mini:
- Late 2012 Model ID: Macmini6,2 - A1347 - EMC 2570
- Late 2012 Model ID: Macmini6,1 - A1347 - EMC 2570
- Mid 2011 Model ID: Macmini5,1 - A1347 - EMC 2442
- Mid 2011 Model ID: Macmini5,2 - A1347 - EMC 2442
- Mid 2011 (server) Model ID: Macmini5,3 - A1347 - EMC 2442