As if this wasn’t bad enough, your original SSD is retained and sent back to Apple! To add to that, we could only find the price of the upgrade by supplying our system serial number and the price to move up to a 512GB SSD from a 256GB, as authorized by Apple, is $1100 for the SSD alone and not including the labor. This means you are paying, not only for the SSD and their switching the SSDs over, but also the complete OS migration that needs to take place and will take considerably more time. First off, the ONLY way to acquire a SSD upgrade is through the authorized dealer and ONLY if they conduct the migration. To get this answer, we spent over an hour on the phone with Apple directly and followed by two authorized Mac dealers and boy were we in for a shock!. So what if I need to upgrade my 256GB SSD to a 512GB SSD after the fact? The most important thing to note here is that these prices only reflect prebuilt systems at the time of purchase. If we look on the Apple website, it appears that upgrade prices may be reasonable as the difference when choosing a 128GB system rather than 64GB is only $100, 256GB rather than 128GB is $300 and 512GB over 256GB is $500. Pricing is also an important factor to consider and the OWC Aura Pro is available at prices of $167.99 (120GB), $224.99 (180GB), $319.99 (240GB) and $644.99 (480GB) at OWC. Even comparing the Aura Pro to the Toshiba Apple TS128E SSD which is also ‘LSI SandForce Driven’, the Aura Pro had no problem showing its colors as the best performing SSD on the market for the 2012 MBA. A straightforward comparison against the stock Samsung Apple SM256E SSD shows that, although the Samsung may be faster when transferring incompressible data at high sequential levels, the OWC Aura Pro walked away with every other performance comparison thrown at it. OWC SSDs are engineered to be the best for Mac, undergoing a rigorous multi-stage lab testing process to deliver absolute reliability at maximum performance long into the future.Perhaps the thing that astounded us the most, with respect to the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G 240GB SSD, was the fact that it’s performance of 91,273 IOPS was the highest we have ever achieved from a typical SSD. OWC redesigned its 3rd generation of OWC Aura Pro 6G SSDs with premium 3D NAND Flash and the latest controller technology to operate cooler and consume less power, resulting in improved battery life for your MacBook Air. OWC Aura Pro SSDs provide a noticeable increase in performance over the factory SSDs for all MacBook Air models. Once again, OWC provides Mac users an upgrade path that delivers phenomenal performance, functionality, and reliability! Whether it’s for the base 11″ 2010 model only offering a 64GB SSD or the 13″ 2011 model offering just a 256GB SSD, installing an Aura Pro 6G SSD is the best enhancement for the 2012 MacBook Air.
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