#Flash update for mac 2015 install#
#Flash update for mac 2015 upgrade#

User error: I made one mistake when installing-I forgot to disconnect the power supply. Make sure you can boot off one backup so that it can be cloned back onto the new drive. Installationīackup first! Preferably at least two backups, just in case. I tested that, but since git doesn’t write much faster than 200 MB/sec, the write speed is only a fraction of what the SSD could accept. The only real-world scenario that writes a ton of data is my 200GB git repository, which has to be rewritten in its entirety during a 'git gc'. But pausing a minute and then writing would deliver high speed again.

Using the DiskTester create-files command to create ten 10GiB files (100GiB total), I saw the write speed alternate starting at about 160GB (there was already 500GB on the drive). So it’s a non-issue for real world use for any imaginable use case. Few if any real-world tasks write that much data without pause-even my largest Photoshop jobs don’t write more than 20GB or so. In real world usage, hitting a performance drop-off would require continuous writing of 320GB on the 2TB drive or 160GB on the 1TB model or 80GB on the 480GB model). Like many SSDs, the design of the OWC Aura Pro X2 is a two-tier flash memory design, so that continuous max-speed writing will run at full speed for about 16% of drive capacity, then write performance drops to about 800MB/sec (still very fast, read speed is always very fast). Unless the budget is super tight, MPG recommends the 1TB model as it is only 50% more than the 480GB model. It includes the optional Envoy Pro enclosure to house the original SSD.

#Flash update for mac 2015 upgrade#

I obtained the OWC Aura Pro X2 2.0TB NVMe SSD Upgrade Solution for my 2015 MacBook Pro.

#Flash update for mac 2015 install#

OWC Free Install Videos make it easy to upgrade!.The feature set is appealing: faster than the original factory SSD along with lower power consumption for longer battery life, and up to 2TB capacity. Available by itself or with an SSD upgrade kit which includes an OWC Envoy Pro enclosure for the internal SSD being removed (highly recommended since it allow cloning from the old SSD to the new internal SSD).