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Hi, I got a leftover OWC 480 GB Aura SSDs from an old 2014 Macbook Air. Is it possible to reuse it in a 2017 27” iMac on the logic board? Attached is a picture of the drive and also a link to the data sheet from OWC. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/owc/ssda…
Thanks for any advise Stefan
Hello, I installed eventually a Crucial MX500 Sata SSD drive and my old OWC Aura PCI blade from a 2014 Macbook Air. Both work nicely together and the performance is a big step up compared to the Fusion set up. Total space is now 1TB which is enough for me. Benchmarks below. Although the Aura performance appear a bit odd. Fast enough in real-life for me nevertheless.
Lets use this as a reference: The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs. So referencing it we can see the MacBook Air SSD is only offers a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface using AHCI Vs PCIe 3.0 x4 using NVMe. So while the connector interface will likely support it. It won’t offer the best performance the interface could offer. Basically is no faster than a SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drive. I’m not sure if the older OWC Aura SSD offers NVMe services, in any case it will only be using two lanes Vs four lanes.
