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owc accelsior s

  1. G

    MP 1,1-5,1 Strange performance for OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD

    I recently bought from OWC their Mercury Electra 6G SSD, installed it on their Accelsior S PCIe adapter card, and plugged that in to my MP5,1 in an empty 16x PCIe II slot. I tried it out as a combined boot drive and data drive. Its performance was terrible. So to try to understand why, I ran...
  2. sgouver

    MP 1,1-5,1 Accelsior S freeze Mac Pro 3.1 (Early 2008)

    Hello all, This is my debut on the Mac universe. I recently bought a Mac Pro 3.1 (Early 2008) from ebay for 50£. The specs are 1 x Quad Core E5462 and 8gb of Ram. I am really excited with the capabilities and quality of this machine. As such, I have already bought another Quad core, added an...
  3. glynster

    Velocity solo x1 (vs) x2 (vs) OWC Accelsior S

    Does anybody have any experience with these cards? I still have spinning hard disks in my Mac Pro 2010 which feels so ancient now and is bottlenecking my speed. I understand the 2010 MP doesn't have Sata 3 speeds (?) so I wanted to use PCI-e card with an SSD to get the full benefit of the SSD -...