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- #Owc aura pro x problems with timemachine for mac#
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#Owc aura pro x problems with timemachine for mac#
The Apple SSD has been removed and the OWC Aura Pro X2 1.0TB NVMe SSD for Mac Pro (Late 2013 – on the right) is ready for insertion. The other capacities available are 240Gb, 480Gb and 2.0Tb. So I headed to OWC’s European shop and ordered the Aura Pro X2 SSD for Mac Pro 2013 1TB Kit. I also decided to go for the kit, which includes an external case called the Envoy, to house the Apple 256Gb SSD and use as an external drive.
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After a few days of thought, I realised the sweet spot, both for usability and financially, would be opting for the 1Tb size. In the end, my frustrations pushed me to looking into upgrading my Mac Pro 6,1’s internal, Macintosh HD, SSD. The OWC Aura Pro X2 1.0TB NVMe SSD (heatsink attached) for Mac Pro (Late 2013) with some of the supplied tools.
#Owc aura pro x problems with timemachine upgrade#
In fact, this very machine’s RAM was upgraded as soon as I bought it from the standard 16Gb, using the 64.0GB OWC Memory Upgrade Kit. I’ve been a huge fan of OWC, having used their various SSDs, RAM and external drive boxes for probably over a decade. Super frustrating, a time waster when on deadline and impossible to do as there was nothing to throw away or configure differently. Moving my Desktop and Document files to my iCloud kept things manageable, but I could only ever have around 22Gb of free space, which would occasionally fill up with cache files (no idea from where, as everything configurable was always assigned to an external SSD attached via Thunderbolt 2 for scratch disk purposes) and constant system messages telling me to clean up my Macintosh HD. I made do with the built in 256Gb SSD for around 4 years. One of the big problems is single internal hard drive in this case, a blisteringly fast NVMe SSD, which is tiny in physical size, and unless you have sizeable funds, is also small in capacity when bought from Apple. I these expandability terms though, the 2013 Mac Pro though, is extremely limited. However with the need for more video and larger raw files, the time came and I got my Mac Pro (3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon). Hugely expandable, with four internal hard drive bays, several expansion slots and dual optical bays that many, including myself, converted to housing SSDs. My two previous Mac Pro machines had been the affectionately known as the cheese grater chassis. Around five years ago though, I had to take the jump and reluctantly got a middle specced machine.
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#Owc aura pro x problems with timemachine professional#
On the other hand though, it’s an extremely limited machine that allows for extremely little internal expansion something which frustrates many professional users, myself included.
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The Mac Pro (model MacPro6,1 – late 2013) with the outer case off, showing the standard 256Gb Apple SSD. On the one hand, it’s a genius piece of design, with a radically revolutionary cooling system which works wonders, very quietly, in a form factor which is truly unique. The Mac Pro (Model identifier: MacPro6,1, late 2013) is a frustrating machine in some professional environments. The OWC Aura Pro X2 1.0TB NVMe SSD Upgrade for the Mac Pro 6,1 (Late 2013)