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title: OWC Aura Pro 6G 500GB mSATA SSD for MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2012 - Early 2013)
date: 2022-02-19T22:02:41Z
modified: 2026-05-05T16:43:28Z
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product_brand:
  - OWC
product_type:
  - simple
product_visibility:
  - featured
  - outofstock
product_cat:
  - Data Storage
  - Internal SSD (Solid State Drive)
pa_interfaces:
  - SATA
pa_storage:
  - 500GB SSD
pa_types:
  - SSD
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OWC provides Mac users the only upgrade solution that delivers higher performance, functionality, and reliability! When first introduced, the MacBook Pro with Retina display base model offered a 256GB SSD configuration with no upgrade option. Current base models start from 128GB to 256GB. Now, instead of being “factory locked”, the OWC Aura Pro 6G gives you the freedom to upgrade your capacity to meet your storage needs. Just like other OWC upgrades, we include a free ‘how-to’ video to make this an easy and money-saving DIY upgrade.

### FEATURES:

- Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) High-Performance Sync-NAND Flash
- Sustained Reads – 501MB/s
- Sustained Writes – 503MB/s
- Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.
- Intelligent “Recycling” for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted.
- DuraWrite extends the endurance of your solid-state drive (SSD).