Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G Solid State Drive and Envoy Storage Solution Review

OWC the company known for their Mac upgrades have released the Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G Solid State Drive and Envoy Storage Solution. This bundle includes a faster SSD drive than the native MacBook Air models while providing an enclosure for the original Apple SSD. If you can use a screwdriver, then your can swap out your original SSD for the Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD. These drives are designed for MacBook Air 2011 editions and come in 120GB, 180GB, 240GB or 480GB models.

Besides increasing the capacity of your MacBook Air these drives are also faster than the factory installed SSDs. The OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G Sandforce enabled with firmware level garbage collection meaning the SSD’s performance should not degrade over time.

The Mercury Aura Envoy arrives in a black cardboard package with the device visualized on the top indicating it works with either Mac or PC and uses the USB 3.0 standard. On the front side of the package is an actual size image of the external enclosure with additional images on the left and right side. The bottom of the package lists features, system requirements, and specifications along with package contents.