OWC 1TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 2.5-inch SATA 7mm SSD

I brought One of OWC 240 GB Mercury Extreme 6G SSD and attached it to their OWC Accelsior S PCIe Adapter for 2.5-inch SATA 6G into my early 2009 Mac Pro 5.1. What A difference once loaded, it just flies, IMHO money well spend.

Easy to install, worth the price! It beats buying a new Mac, thats for sure.

Very easy to install, works great,my Mac starts up faster. My 2012 is worth fixing versus a new one

Great drive! Installed on 2011 MacBook Pro 17in. Such a difference in speed. It was taking 15 minutes just to boot up, now takes less than 2...It used to take FOREVER for photos to upload and edit. Now loads in no time with no lag! Definitely recommend if you have an older MacBook running and HDD...difference is night and day!

PRO: Arrived quickly. Installation was not hard (after I had to buy a couple additional items) CON: Actually getting it to function. Using this on a somewhat older MacBook. The drive formats and appears fine in Disk Utility, no issues. The OS will also load from an installer or internet on to the drive... but then thats it. Upon start-up, it is not recognized, and no OS actually starts-up, just flashing error symbol (again, even though the OS is there on the drive). Ive tried a few different work-arounds, but so far nothing has worked. On one attempt to clean reformat, the SSD was bricked by an error and could neither format nor repair any more. 200€ down the tube. NOT happy!

Ive installed many of these SSDs in iMacs over the years. Installing the drive is the easiest part. Getting it to restore using time machine is a challenge. After several failed attempts at a time machine recovery to set up the new SSD. I recommend making a usb boot disc installer for the OS you want. I used Big Sur. Boot from the installer disc you just made, install a fresh OS on the SSD, then migrate the data from your time machine back up. The steps to make the boot disc using terminal are found easily online... if you cant do that, you shouldnt be opening up an iMac. I have several of these SSDs from OWC. They are a huge improvement over a stock mac internal HD.

This on of the top ssd driver out there

This hard drive rocks the house and I mean the whole house I am using it mainly for final cup Pro X it works amazing fast and very quiet

Restored my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with the OWC 1 TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. My old MacBook Pro went from taking 8 minutes to boot to under 30 seconds. If youre making the change from HDD to SSD for the first time, youll be amazed at the difference. OWC has a great reputation, and so far, Ive been thrilled with their products.

Turned up earlier than expected. Works well.