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OWC Accelsior S PCIe Adapter for 2.5" SATA III SSD Drives

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Description

  • PCIe to 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD Host Adapter, directly mount any standard 2.5" drive
  • Storage Expansion With a Speed Boost, Up to 550 MB/s sustained speeds
  • Install in any available PCIe x4 (or greater) slot-Use as a native, high-speed, boot drive or scratch-disk and boost capacity and performance
  • No drivers or software needed, easily upgrade your PC or legacy Mac Pro tower
  • 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

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Customer Reviews

Worth the money despite a few drawbacks. I was getting around ~285mbps read/write on my Samsung evo 500gb SSD using the built in sata 2 bus on the 5,1 Mac Pro backplane. After installing the OCW card, I'm getting about what everyone is posting. Low to mid 500s and thats not too shabby for a 50 dollar drop in card.It wasn't that it was painfully slow with the ssd parked in the sled but since moving from a raid 0 SSD array to sata 2, I could certianly feel it. I was looking at the Sonnet Tempo Pro plus and some NVME solutions but they both had a few hard to swallow drawbacks. One was expense and the other system instability.First, I'll talk about price. I've been doing some serious research about finding a reasonable sub ~300 dollar NVME solution that BOOTS and it came down to transplanting a 2013 MacBook Pro ssd into a PCIE card and depending on the revision number of the salvaged ssd blah blah. It was too many variables for me to take a risk buying everything on eBay and depending on the seller to know what he or she is looking at. Would it be faster if could hunt down all the right parts? no doubt. Is it worth the fiddling around when I have actual work to do, nope. The Sonnet is a raid 0/1 SSD PCIE Card that runs around ~$300 after tax and I've been reading about sometimes it boots in raid 0 and sometimes it just does what it wants. Again, over budget anyway. **before anyone tells me about raid 0 - 15 years in the industry and I have a very robust backup solution. I'm looking for speed. I have redundancy on the backend and backup offsite.**Second Point: fragility. As these cheese grater Mac Pros age, the more we have to cobble crap together to keep them running as a professional workstation. All 4 of my expansion slots are full. 780 ti (lets hear it for over amping the stock mb 6pin ports) , now this OWC SSD Card, cheap USB 3.0 card (yes they still have usb 2.0 on board and you can't boot from the card), and an Intel 10gb network card.All of these things can and will randomly start acting up. GPU will start flickering because Apple hasn't supported a desktop Nvidia GPU since the 600 series and we're using drivers for a 4 year old card. Flakey usb connections that cut out but I'm sure that can fixed with a better card like the Sonnet USB 3.0 flavor. On top of those two gripes, the cMP has a poor pci-e mounting solutions that cause my damn 10gb card in the top slot to wiggle around when my cat walks by dropping conneciton. Crap like that we have to deal with. So my point being...I popped this thing into my system, walked away to grab a drink fully expecting to mess around with getting it to work for the next 2 hours and I think my reaction when I came back was, "holy sH*t it booted." Thats it. Simple, easy and worth 50 bucks. Trim says it works. IDK if it actually does but I'm going off the system report.Downsides: It shows up as an external drive. Not a big deal to me but it may cause problems with some programs not wanting to install to "external hardware". I'm not sure how that works because the OS is on it but I'l update if I find any issues in the future.Due to my setup (see photos) and being squished against a very hot running card due to Apple holding fan speeds back to keep noise down and Nvidia just making a stupidly hot card to begin with, I'm only seeing a few degrees higher temps over hanging out in the sled. 4Add SATA III 6G SSD Performance to aging Mac Pro Tower! Breath new life into your Mac Pro Tower (mine is a mid 2010) by buying a 2.5" SSD card (a 1 TB Samsung SSD in my case) and then use the OWC Mercury Accelsior S PCI to Sata 6G Drive to get the best possible performance.I was originally going to use a 2.5" to 3.5" inch SSD to HDD adapter and put a SSD drive into one of my Mac's 4 HDD drive trays, but I found that these drives are only SATA II, not SATA III. In order to take full advantage of the SSD drive speed I needed a SATA 3 connection to the motherboard and this as an easy option. The 2.5" SSD drive screws directly onto the blue card (where the white square opening is). Did a system recovery boot, formatted the SSD as a Mac Journal drive and installed OS X 10.10.3 and I'm amazed at how fast my Mac Pro Tower boots up now. Thanks OWC! 5General Installation - Super easy and straightforward Purchased this card recently for a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1.General Installation - Super easy and straightforward. Attach the SSD to the Accelsior, place it in PCIe lane 1 or 2(x16 2009 Mac Pro), close up your baby and you're done.My specific installation(you can skip this if you don't care for OWC drives or plan to use one with this card) - This is where things get interesting. I tested/used this card with a OWC Mercury Extreme 6G 480GB and a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB. The OWC SSD is being returned. Before the Accelsior S I was using the OWC SSD as my main drive. I experienced intermittent freezing and the need for hard restarts, programs quitting and a few other issues but really and truly it was intermittent. Then I got the idea of doing yet another OS X install on the Samsung EVO and I have not experienced any of the issues since. At first I did consider the possibility of a bad migration but some other symptoms the OWC displayed suggests otherwise.Using DriveDX it states that the OWC SSD now has a overall health rating of 64.3%. I have seen this number fluctuate but the mean or general reading is 64.3%. There are 17 errors and the most concerning and highest are the read/write errors. This possibly explains a few things. The drive is 8 days old and has not been abused. Putting it in any of the 4 bays or where the optical drive was, basically any sata connection, causes the computer to go into a black screen on reboot with a small loading bar in the left corner of my screen. After about a minute it finally goes to the desktop where all programs are open and the desktop is loaded. Prior to this it would load normally but then the desktop wouldn't be built. I could open programs etc but it would be a minute before the desktop would show drives, folders etc. Erasing the disk now takes longer than I have ever seen any disk take to format using Disk Utility. Those Read/Write errors? After doing some more research I decided to return the drive for a refund and got my RMA yesterday.Performance - Attached I have some BlackMagic screenshots of the read and write tests before the Accelsior with the Samsung EVO in Bay 1 and then after with it on the Accelsior. Another 50% gain but since it was needling out what were the true peaks? I used Disk Sensei and then got 540 Read and 525 Write. I'll take it! In earlier tests without the card I was only getting half the read and writes as shown in the screenshots and I knew something wasn't right. I also did some work tests involving PS and moving large 2gb, 4gb, 6gb andSo if you're looking for a performance boost I would highly recommend this card. My SSD scratch disks for programs like AE, PS etc and additional 16GB of RAM aren't even here yet and this card alone has already made a world of difference. My extremely large PS files just open now after a second. Literally. No beachballs, loading bars, nothing. It just appears.MAJOR Note - While I've only seen this affect one thing it's worth noting. The card and Samsung SSD in PCIe lane 1 is seen as an external drive. I haven't and don't want to attempt ejecting it to "see what happens". Some things like trying to eject the main drive your OS is on should probably be left to the imagination. the Same in lane 2 and for performance reasons I didn't bother testing lane 3 and 4 which are only x4. If they were x8 that might have been worth a test or two.The thing I've seen it affect is sometimes when I click into my main drive my user profile folder, application folder etc takes maybe a second to load. Very weird as I don't see this latency or pause in anything else I've done with this configuration so far.I apologize for the long winded part about the OWC drive and review in general but it's really important to cover those aspects for several reasons. If anything changes with the card, performance or otherwise I'll make some updates. 5Easy to do super speed upgrade for older desktop. Works perfectly in my 2008 (3,1) Mac Pro tower. I opted to use a 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD with it. Was able to easily install OSX on this as my boot drive without any issues. FYI, in order to get the fastest possible speed, be sure to install the card into one of the 16x slots. When installed in a 4x slot, the speed was limited to ~200MB/s read/write. Installed in the 16x slot it performed at full speed over 500MB/s read/write with the Samsung drive. 5Fast but Workstation users, please read The performance results will follow but first a note to HP Workstation users. I'm on my 4th HP workstation over the past 15 years and one common factor (seems to be true of Dell Workstations as well) is that the PCI slots tend to have strange requirements. I'm talking about true workstations, not desktops. My current machine is a HP Z440 with 6-core Xeon, 64GB of ECC RAM and a HP 512GB NVMe drive (all from the factory).I've been running a Samsung 1TB 840 EVO for several years (this machine and a previous HP Z420) in an external case connected to a USB3 hub. With this configuration, it is only about twice as fast as an external hard drive. So I purchased this OWC card from Amazon as a holiday present to myself to improve the performance of the drive. However when the card is placed in PCIe Slot 3 (an X4 slot), which should work fine; the machine cannot boot up. Note that this is not the boot drive. Error 928 Fatal PCIe Error. According to HP documentation, the HP NVMe drive won't work in this slot either.Moved the card to PCIe Slot 5, an X16 slot, and the card works fine. I'm disappointed because I really wanted to run 2 of these cards in my machine, such is life.Now for the performance, keeping in mind that this drive was handicapped running through the USB3 hub.2 different performance tests: Test 1. copying a folder containing 450 files, 7 folders and 33.9GB of files Text 2. copying a folder with a single 5.5GB fileOld configuration (SSD externally connected) Test 1 - copy from SSD to NVMe - 14min 10sec Test 1 - copy from NVMe to SSD - 15min 7sec Test 2 - copy from SSD to NVMe - 2min 19sec Test 2 - copy from NVMe to SSD - 2min 27secNew configuration (SSD on OWC card) Test 1 - copy from SSD to NVMe - 1min 8sec == 12 times faster Test 1 - copy from NVMe to SSD - 3min 22sec == 4.5 times faster Test 2 - copy from SSD to NVMe - 4sec == 34 times faster Test 2 - copy from NVMe to SSD - 4sec == 36 times faster 5Works with little fuss. Dropped this into my Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to a 5,1 with no trouble. I had my SSD in one of the drive bays, and all I had to do was put it into the adapter and then back into the Mac. No reformatting or reinstallation required the Mac sees it and boots up. The only issue is that on a cold boot, I sit a blank screen for awhile before it starts up, but it s not a huge deal. Speeds are as advertised. My drive hits around 500MB/s read and write. MacOS sees it as an external drive, but it otherwise works just like an internal drive.If you aren t seeing the performance that you think you should, you might want to check to see if TRIM is enabled. If it isn t, the drive is going to get slower on write speeds over time. 5Failed hard after only 4 months of use. Mac Pro 2012, OS 10.12Using this as the main boot drive.I was happy with its performance. Super easy to install and incredibly fast. Boot time cut by more than half, apps start up immediately and computer is quieter because no moving parts in this drive, no more hard drive ticking noises or motor spinning.However, after only 4 months of use, computer froze while I was working and would not reboot. It chimed on start but no Apple logo; screen stays gray. Computer worked fine after removing this drive. Luckily, no data was lost thanks to Time Machine.OWC says SSD failures are rare and is replacing mine under warranty.I will happily adjust my rating after I regain confidence the new one will last longer than a few months.It's bad when any drive fails, but an SSD will fail without any warning whatsoever. Remember, always have a data backup plan in place. 2A worthwhile spend for those looking to extend the life of a 2010 ~ 2012 MacPro by adding an SSD. This card works as advertised in my MacPro 5,1. My machine is a 2.8GHz Quad core from 2010. I already had an SSD in an Icy Dock form factor box in Drive slot one. I moved my SSD to this card and my read and write speed for the drive doubled. I expected to see a big change in Boot time but I didn't. The Accelsior S is actually about 5 seconds slower than native. But once the PC is booted and running, Disk I/O bound tasks run about twice as fast as the SSD in the IcyDock and about 4x compared to the 7200 RPM rotating media drive with which the MacPro shipped. For me this was a $57 purchase because I already added the SSD a while ago. Combine this with a good 500Gb 2.5" SSD like the Samsung 850 EVO and the total spend is $225 or so. For me that's not a bad value. If you are upgrading your MacPro by replacing your main drive with a 2.5" Form factor SSD then you will have to buy either something like an Icy Dock: Icy Dock EZConvert 2.5-Inch to 3.5-Inch SATA SSD / Hard Drive Converter or this card. Given the speed boost, this card is the way I would go in 2016. 5Great performance I wanted to upgrade my ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 to SATA III speed for my new Samsung 850 Pro SSD.I initially purchased a Syba PCI-e card, but got only marginally better sequential read/write, and actually worse write IOPS than my onboard SATA II.After trying several things to get better performance from the SYBA (I found the motherboard is only PCI-e 2.0 on some of the slots, so I moved it around, etc), and working with their support, I decided to purchase this OWC.It's great. No drivers needed! The Syba needed various drivers.I'm now getting great performance (measured by Samsung Magician software that came with the drive)Seq Read: 561 MB/sSeq Write: 534 MB/sRandom Read: 66867 IOPSRandom Write: 65360 IOPSThe random speeds are not as good as the claimed performance of the drive, but I may be testing differently, and also this is my OS drive, so perhaps other things were going on while I was testing.Pros:High performanceNo cable neededGives you a place to mount your SSD - my case doesn't have a dedicated spot for this size drive, so it would need an adapterNo drivers neededCons:The hard drive LED does not function when using the drive attached to this card. It would be nice to know if something is accessing the drive constantly. 5Speed gain for certain on a Mac Pro 5.1 Desktop over using SATA drive bay/drawer and FAST order/shipping process by OWC ..again! First to say I've purchased several times form OWC and never been disappointed. My last 3 orders are through their store-front and Amazon and all 3 orders got shipped within 4-5 hours of my order!Card went in fine and works immediately, Checking System Device information in the hardware section for this card confirmed all is well!I have a Mac Pro 5.1 2010+ desktop. I've used both a combo of SATA internal HDs, SSHDs and 1-2 SSDs as well.My current Sandisk 1 TB SSd has been in one of the drive drawers using an adapted and interfaced thoought the respective SATA connected for that drawer.I wanted this PCI3 2.5 adapter card primarily for adding another drive to drives that already occupty all 4 STAT drive drawers plus one in the optical bay on top.I always spec out drives (Blackmagic Speed Test App) when doing any upgrades, or moving things around or after a new erasing and/or partitioning or for general trouble-shooting.Well.big surprise in a big speed gain using this card over one of the SATA II drawers. Granted this card is rated SATA III so there may be a beny there in regards to the results.My speeds using this adapter card were 310 mbps write and 550 mbps read!My 1TB Sandisk SSD tested was tested both in HTF+ and then APFS partitions and either one did not impact speeds at all (were the same).So in summary, if I ever add or swap in a new SSD in my machine, I WILL be adding another one of these cards for sure! 5
OWC Accelsior S PCIe Adapter for 2.5

OWC Accelsior S PCIe Adapter for 2.5" SATA III SSD Drives

4.4
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