OWC Aura Pro

OWC Aura Pro

OWC
36 Overall Score
vs
ADATA LEGEND 860

ADATA LEGEND 860

ADATA
60 Overall Score

Scores

Laptop
OWC
17
ADATA
59
Workstation
OWC
33
ADATA
59
Budget
OWC
40
ADATA
49
Portable
OWC
46
ADATA
14
Gaming
OWC
17
ADATA
46
Console
OWC
11
ADATA
35

Specifications

OWC Aura ProADATA LEGEND 860
Drive
Capacity
250
500
Form FactorExternalM.2 2280
InterfaceSATA IIIPCIe 4.0 x4
ProtocolSATANVMe
PCIe Generation—4★
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
530
5,000
Sequential Write (MB/s)
495
3,000
Hardware
NANDTLCSLC★
DRAM Cache✗✗
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)No data
640
MTBF (hours)No data
2,000,000
Warranty (years)55
Features
Heatsink—✗
Hardware Encryption✓✓

Pros & Cons

OWC Aura Pro

  • Strong feature (78th percentile)
  • Below average capacity (13th percentile)13th %ile
  • Below average random (22nd percentile)
  • Below average speed (23rd percentile)

ADATA LEGEND 860

  • Strong endurance (96th percentile)96th %ile
  • Strong feature (87th percentile)87th %ile
  • Strong speed (69th percentile)
  • Below average social proof (19th percentile)19th %ile
  • Below average capacity (26th percentile)

Verdict

★ Winner: ADATA LEGEND 860

Scores 60 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 7 of 15 specs.

OWC Aura Pro Better at:

Portable

ADATA LEGEND 860 Better at:

BudgetGamingLaptopConsoleWorkstation