If you order one right now, the Aura Pro units now come with the regular blue paint. While some of you might want to grab the pitchforks and scream false advertising, they actually have a good explanation, ours is silver only because it came from an early run. While normally OWC SSDs have blue cases, our Aura Pro is oddly silver.

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant.

Unrecoverable Read Errors: Less than 1 sector per 10 16 bits read.ECC Recovery: Up to 24 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector.Native Command Queuing up to 32 commands.NAND: Tier 1/Grade A Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory.

Sustained Sequential Write: up to 275MB/s.Sustained Sequential Read: up to 285MB/s.Controller: SandForce SF-1200 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set.Our review drive is the 120GB capacity, but OWC offers an entire spread including 60GB, 240GB and a 480GB SSD “coming soon.” The Aura Pro delivers the familiar SF-1200 performance of sustained reads up to 285MB/s and reads up to 275MB/s. OWC certainly had portability in mind when designing the Aura Pro, but they didn’t skimp either in terms of stated performance or capacity, the two areas small form factor drives often get shorted. This means that portable devices like netbooks, tablets and ultra-portable notebooks have a new high-performance option when it comes to internal storage. OWC’s Mercury Aura Pro SSD is one of the few 1.8″ performance-based SSDs on the market designed to meet this need. Bigger isn’t always better, and in the world of SSDs smaller and specialized form factors are becoming more popular and look to shake up the way we think about storage in portable devices.

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