Product Review

OWC Accelsior S: Storage Expansion With a Speed Boost . Add a 2.5" SATA 6G Drive to your Mac or PC.Directly mount any standard 2.5" drive.Up to 550 MB/s sustained speeds. Enhance SATA 3Gb/s systems with SATA 6Gb/s support. Easy installation. No drivers required. Accelsior S is the simple solution to add a high speed SATA 6G drive to PCs or silver Mac Pro towers otherwise restricted to 3G architecture. Combined with a high-performance SSD, Accelsior S brings cutting edge 6G performance to your SATA 3G system. With more than 500 MB/s of throughput, the Accelsior S dual-lane PCIe 2.0 card delivers flexible storage expansion - with a speed boost - to your Mac or PC. Accelsior S is the perfect complement to OWC's Mercury family of high-performance SSD's, allowing up to an extra 1TB of fast storage expansion. Mount a 2.5" drive to the Accelsior S, install in any available PCIe x4 (or greater) slot, and you're up and running with expanded high-speed storage. Use as a native, high-speed, boot drive or scratch-disk and boost capacity and performance. With no drivers or extra software needed, upgrading your PC or legacy Mac Pro tower with Accelsior S is a breeze. OWC Part Number: OWCSSDACL6G.S - Form Factor: full height, half length - PCIe-SATA Bridge: ASM1062 - Interface: PCIe 2.0 x2 - AHCI Compliant: Yes, Plug and Play Installation, no drivers required - RoHS Compliant: YES -Performance: Read: up to 550MB/s, Write: 530MB/s - Operating Temp: 32°F to 158°F/0°C to 70°C - Non-Operating Temp: ?40°F to 185°F/?40°C to 85°C - Acoustics: 0.0 bels for both Idle and Seek - Operating system compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 and up, Windows Server 2008 and higher, Not compatible as a Windows boot drive on a Mac - Supported Mechanisms: All 2.5" HDD and SSD SATA 1.5, 3.0, 6.0Gb/s.