With its simultaneous internal and external storage performance, the Mercury AccelsiorE2 offers the the best combination of speed, capacity, and connectivity available today.Stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. Start working faster with near instantaneous boots and app launches. And save your work faster than ever before.The AccelsiorE2 utilizes the PCIe slot in Mac Pros and PC towers, the fastest data interface available, to deliver up to 820MB/s of blistering perfomance. That's nearly 3x faster than an SSD equipped Mac Pro 3Gb/s drive bay, and well beyond 6Gb/s drive speeds.When your work is completed, transfer it for backup or archival purposes at speeds up to 600MB/s via the two eSATA expansion ports to any external storage device with an eSATA port. Includes. OWC Mercury AccelsiorE2 PCIe Card.

Two OWC Mercury Accelsior SSD blades. Requires 6Gb/s certified cables for connecting to eSATA drives - available separately. OWC 3 Year WarrantyNote about compatibility and throughput:. Compatibility:.

Compatible with all eSATA equipped storage solutions. PC Throughput:. PCIe 2.0 x4 slot or better is required. Use of a PCIe 1.0 x4 slot will reduce performance. Mac Pro Throughput:. 2009-2010 Mac Pro. Installing Accelsior into any open x4 or x16 PCIe 2.0 slot will deliver full throughput up to 785MB/s.

2008 Mac Pro. These models have two x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, which enable AcceslsiorE2 to deliver full throughput up to 785MB/s. Installing AccelsiorE2 into of the two x4 PCIe 1.0 slots will result in AccelsiorE2 being addressed as a gen one, one-lane card with performance limited to real world 190-200MB/s data rates. 2006-2007 Mac Pro. These models utilize PCIe 1.0 slot which cannot be configured (even with the Expansion Utility in OS X) to address AccelsiorE2 as anything but as a first generation one-lane card.

R/macpro: /r/macpro is a community of Apple Mac Pro users. Mojave on MacPro5,1 with a Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD, especially the. Probably best for me to launch the Mojave Installer and let it update the BootRom to 144.0.0.0.0.

As a result, AccelsiorE2 performance will be limited to 190-200MB/s data rates. If maximum data rate speed up to 285MB/s is desired, we recommend the installation of a 2.5' OWC Mercury SSD in an open Mac Pro drive bay.

eSATA Expansion Ports:. Compatible with all eSATA equipped storage solutions.Requires 6Gb/s certified cables for connecting to eSATA drives - available separately.

Not compatible with port-multiplier enclosures. The eSATA ports do not support hot-swapping. AccelsiorE2 eSATA ports are bootable.

A sleep conflict may be encountered when using certain eSATA chipsets via the eSATA ports when booted to the AccelsiorE2. What is the best webcam for mac. See the specifications tab for affected solutions where System Sleep mode MUST be disabled in order to ensure reliable operation.

Allowing system sleep to occur while one of the affected external drives is connected via the AccelsiorE2 eSATA ports could result in loss of data following wake from sleep. Although the above are our general recommendations for use, wake from sleep has been determined to only be an issue when the Accelsior PCIe is used for startup (SSD or eSATA connected device). We are working with our partners to see that the sleep/wake function is fully supported with all solutions and startup scenarios. Dual Card Use/Booting:. Dual AccelsiorE2 Usage. The use of two or more AccelsiorE2 SSDs requires OS X 10.6.8 or later. Bootcamp.

2008 Mac Pro (with model ID MacPro3,1) only supported in PCIe slots #3 & #4. All models: To boot Windows via Bootcamp on AccelsiorE2, only one AccelsiorE2 SSD can be installed. 2006-2008 Mac Pro (with model ID MacPro1,1; MacPro2,1; MacPro3,1). Due to an Apple limitation, any volume located on a Mercury AccelsiorE2 SSD will not appear in the 'option boot' menu. A volume installed on an AccelsiorE2 can be set as the Mac Pro's boot volume through the 'Startup Disk' pane in System Preferences. Not compatible with port-multiplier enclosures.

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