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2021-07-10 OWC U2 SHUTTLEONE: Build Your Own Affordable High-Performance U.2 SSD

2020-07-02 TESTED: 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD

2020-04-26 OWC Doubles SSD Capacity for Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD, Thunderblade, Envoy Pro EX

2020-01-19 Insanely Fast Data Integrity Checking with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2020-01-01 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD: Fasted SSD MPG has ever Tested, by 2X

2019-12-26 On the Way for Testing: 2019 Mac Pro 16-core / 48GB / 4TB

2019-12-20 PCIe SSD for Mac Pro and PCs from OWC: “MEET THE FASTEST OWC SSD EVER BUILT – THE ACCELSIOR 4M2”

2018-01-21 2TB LaCie Bolt: Uses Two 'Blades' So Can Run as RAID-0 Stripe (default) or RAID-1 Mirror or Two Independent Volumes

2018-01-12 Shipping Soon: OWC Thunderblade 4 Thunderbolt 3 SSD with Blazing-Fast Performance in 1/2/4/8TB capacities.

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2020-09-05 Photographers and Videographers: Looking for an All-In-One Thunderbolt 3 Storage Unit and PCIe SSD Enclosure + Hub and Camera Card Reader?

2020-07-02 Putting the 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD to Use as Main Storage

2020-01-01 2019 Mac Pro: Review Started, Plus the Fastest SSD I’ve ever Tested

2019-12-26 On the Way for Testing: 2019 Mac Pro 16-core / 48GB / 4TB

2019-12-20 OWC Delivers 8TB PCIe SSD for 2019 Mac Pro, 2010-2012 Mac Pro, PCs

Apple Mac Pro (December 2019)

Workhorse desktop tower..

  1. 2019 Mac Pro: OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD

Thunderbolt peripherals

Reviews of Thunderbolt products..

  1. OWC Mercury Helios Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for PCIe Cards

OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8

Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.

  1. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Overview

Transitioning to the 2013 Mac Pro

Peripherals and add-ons forexisting hardware..

  1. Transition: Dual Accelsior PCIe SSDs

OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe RAID SSD

Ultra-fast solid state storage with hardware RAID for a Mac Pro in a PCIe slot..

  1. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD with Hardware RAID
  2. Mercury Accelsior 'E2' PCIe SSD with Dual eSATA Ports
  3. Mercury Accelsior 'E2' Upgrade Process (Module Swap)
  4. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Setup and Configuration
  5. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Benefits and Applications
  6. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Performance Singly and Striped
  7. Mercury Accelsior 'E2' eSATA 6G Speed with HDD / SSD
  8. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Photoshop CS6 Benchmark (diglloydMedium)
  9. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Photoshop CS6 Benchmark (diglloydHuge)
  10. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Speed vs Capacity and Data Type (240GB)
  11. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Speed vs Capacity and Data Type (480GB)
  12. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Speed (Triple RAID-0 Stripe)
  13. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Conclusions

OWC Mercury Accelsior Pro Q

Ultra-fast PCIe SSD for Classic Mac Pro or Thunderbolt Macs.

  1. OWC Mercury Accelsior Pro Q
  2. Performance as Photoshop Scratch Drive (diglloydHuge Benchmark)
  3. Sustained Transfer Speed, Single and Striped (2013 Mac Pro)
  4. Speed vs Transfer Size, Single and Striped (2013 Mac Pro)

Fusion Technical Nerd Stuff

More technical details about using Apple Fusion..

  1. Fusion Volume Speed (OWC PCIe SSD + HDD)

Blog posts

2021

2021-07-10 OWC U2 SHUTTLEONE: Build Your Own Affordable High-Performance U.2 SSD

2020

2020-07-02 TESTED: 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD

2020-04-26 OWC Doubles SSD Capacity for Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD, Thunderblade, Envoy Pro EX

2020-01-19 Insanely Fast Data Integrity Checking with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2020-01-01 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD: Fasted SSD MPG has ever Tested, by 2X

2019

2019-12-26 On the Way for Testing: 2019 Mac Pro 16-core / 48GB / 4TB

2019-12-20 PCIe SSD for Mac Pro and PCs from OWC: “MEET THE FASTEST OWC SSD EVER BUILT – THE ACCELSIOR 4M2”

2018

2018-01-21 2TB LaCie Bolt: Uses Two 'Blades' So Can Run as RAID-0 Stripe (default) or RAID-1 Mirror or Two Independent Volumes

2018-01-12 Shipping Soon: OWC Thunderblade 4 Thunderbolt 3 SSD with Blazing-Fast Performance in 1/2/4/8TB capacities.

2018-01-09 2TB LaCie Bolt: Maxes Out Thunderbolt 3 Bus for Reads, Very Fast Writes, Beats iMac Pro SSD for Reads 1MB and Smaller

2017

2017-05-08 OWC Accelsior Pro Q: Rock Solid and Blazingly Fast

2017-04-13 OWC Accelsior Pro Q vs Accelsior: Real World Throughput

2017-03-27 OWC Accelsior Pro Q Speed vs Transfer Size

2017-03-25 TESTED: OWC Accelsior Pro Q PCIe SSD for 2010/2012 Mac Pro or any Thunderbolt Mac (via Helios Enclosure)

2017-03-06 OWC Nearly Doubles PCIe SSD Performance with Accelsior Q

2014

2014-03-28 Saving and Opening Huge Photoshop Files *FAST* (OWC Mercury Helios 2 and Dual Accelsior PCIe SSD)

2014-01-01 How Fast is the Internal PCIe SSD in the MacBook Pro Retina 'Crystal Well'?

2013

2013-12-28 Apple Posts Mac Pro PCIe Flash Storage (SSD) Tech Note

2013-10-08 Install the Driver for the OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD (OS X Cuts Power Prematurely to PCIe)

2013-10-06 OWC Releases Firmware Update For Its Mercury SATA SSDs

2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD

2013-09-30 OS X 10.8.5 and OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Issue (Kernel Panic from Sleep)

2013-07-29 Faster Workflow, Faster Lightroom, Faster Photoshop?

2013-06-12 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Thoughts on a Switchover from Existing Tower

2013-05-19 OWC Mercury Accelsior E2: How Fast are the eSATA 6G Ports with External SSD?

2013-04-06 OWC Mercury Accelsior 'E2' PCIe SSD with Dual eSATA Ports — the Upgrade Process and Data Verification

2013-04-06 OWC Mercury Accelsior 'E2' PCIe SSD with Dual eSATA Ports — the Upgrade Process

2013-02-21 OWC Mercury Accelsior Backorders Filled, Most capacities in Stock

2013-02-04 OWC Mercury Accelsior 'E2' PCIe SSD Includes Two eSATA Ports

2013-01-19 Huge Photoshop Files Need a Fast Working Drive

2012

2012-12-10 My Favorite Mac Hardware

2012-12-03 New Apple 27" iMac — Buying Advice

2012-11-04 MacMini with PCIe SSD (OWC Mercury Helios + Accelsior) = FASTER STILL

2012-10-31 Performance of 'Fusion' Drive (OWC Accelsior 480GB PCIe SSD + 2TB HDD)

2012-07-25 Why I NEED 80GB or 96GB Memory in my Mac Pro: Photoshop CS6 Performance

2012-05-30 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB

2012-05-06 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 240GB vs 480GB + RAID

2012-05-05 OWC Accelsior PCIe SSD Reader Comment

2012-05-01 OWC Mercury Accelsior 240GB / 480GB

2012-04-20 OWC Mercury Accelsior and System Feel

2012-04-19 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6

2012-04-16 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6

2012-04-15 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Blistering-fast Drive Performance

2012-03-23 OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD

2012-02-21 MPG Pro Workstation Solution with OWC PCIe SSD

2012-01-19 ULTIMATE Mac Pro — the MPG Pro Workstation Solution with OWC PCIe SSD (for Video and Database and Scientific and Huge Photoshop Users)

2012-01-19 OWC PCIe SSD Card Coming Soon

2010

2010-10-11 OWC announces PCIe SSD solution for 2011 with up to 3.2TB at 4GB/sec speeds

OWC Envoy Pro FX SSD

Thunderbolt 3, built tough to last!

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