3-9-2011 review by storagereview

OWC claims a 22% performance improvement with the Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD over the stock Toshiba-controlled SSD in the MacBook Air (Late 2010). The drive was fast through the synthetic benchmarks, and a lot faster in the real world benchmarks. To be short a performance gain of 40-70%. That's due in large part to greater random read and write performance of the SandForce controller. The other upside is MacBook Air owners can now have a higher capacity SSD too, on the high side, 360GB vs Apple's offering of only 256GB.

This drive adds a viable option compared to the stock SSD found in the current generation for Apple Macbooks. Even though it's the only alternative out there, the performance gains are a lot better than advertised in the real world traces. If you overlook the price, this Solid-state drive does more than promised.