Important Pre-Installation Note for the OWC Aura Pro X and Aura Pro X2 Solid State Drives

The Aura Pro X and Aura Pro X2 are high-performance NVME drives with a 512-byte block size.

Because of the upgraded block size, using an Aura Pro X or Aura Pro X2 requires you to: a.) Use macOS 10.13 High Sierra (or later) as the installed OS, and b.) make sure the computer you're installing your OS has the correct firmware update BEFORE installing the new drive.

Video Jump Points:
00:00 – Titles
00:05 – Introduction / Overview
00:20 – What you need to know about the Aura Pro X macOS requirements
00:37 – Update your OS on the stock drive FIRST while it’s still installed
01:00 – With the update complete, you can install the Aura Pro X in your machine
01:14 – What if an unformatted Aura Pro X doesn’t show up?
01:34 – What if you tried to update the Aura Pro X first without updating your macOS?
01:57 – Closing, Legal Stuff, and Copyright

[WarriorsPhoto]

I am guessing you are releasing this video because of people’s complaints about the Aura X2 drives. Good on you all for doing so. This shows how much you care about customers. (:

[SevenDeMagnus]

OWC, a customer since 1994:-)
Keep accelerating technology and keep innovating the Mac.

New follower here.

[jmartecep]

My mac was recently upgraded to big sur. my OWC ssd is not being recognized. Is there a work around for this issue?

[anthonycoggins]

Fast Forward to October 2021...Yeah you will need to reinstall that original drive AGAIN for MacOS Monterey.

[Luiseta]

I have MacOS Monterey and it didn't recognize the Aura SSD. What should I do?

[tomholderness]

Got a weird one for you guys. I have a Mid 2015 15” MBP and i have the aura Pro 2 1TB.

My time machine backs up are of the Big Sur operating system, but when prompted to restore from time machine backup it is forcing me to install macOS Monterey?

[moeskido]

So **that's** what the video-narration guy looks like. Hi, video-narration guy!

[shamsulazhar]

This guy should be doing professional voice over work

[kunal]

Hi the big issue I’m having is when I get to recovery mode and open disk utility, I don’t see a view widget to “show all devices” so I can’t format the aura drive. I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that was running Mojave. Please help!

[tsamotsamo]

Hello
I bought an owc aura pro x2 ssd in europe through a friend 1TB
I have a macbook pro inch 13 2015 that runs on high sierra
I changed the ssd to put the 1TB
I first created a bootable usb key from the command line on the old system with always high sierrra
which was already up to date and did not offer me updates
at first it did not take I changed the date to put an old one it worked but during the installation I receive this message '' mac os could not be installed on your computer '' when I try an online installation it offers me elcapitain and does not work for me

[prgrez]

Installed the Aura Pro X2 in my 27" iMac 19, 1 in January 2021. 
I cannot install macOS Monterey since this requires a new EFI update again. 
Is there a workaround for this?
Since tearing up my Mac again is not really an option.. Thanks.

[tektako]

This doesn’t work. I had big sur on original drive and MacBook Pro still can’t see the ssd. What a load of crap.

[TrollMeister_]

I got my Aura Pro X2 ( 2 TB) today, and no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to show on my 2014 MBP with Big Sur

[uyghurmananzar]

I don't get it, my macOX is on old my old SSD, once I replaced it with new OWC SSD, why would I need to upgrade OX?

[THIS---GUY]

I have one installed on my Mac but accidentally deleted it from the utilities page.. How can I reinstall it?

2014 macbook pro i7 16gb ram

I did what was stated above and still do not see any aura drive on any of the utility pages and cannot boot the macbook anymore

[frankfoti]

Im running the latest OS Big Sur, im confused.. Ive seen some videos that say you need to have Mojave installed in order for it to work properly, seen vids that say you need the latest Sierra. Seen a lot of Youtube vids confusing me. So i figured Id come straight to the source. Dear OWC, can i install this Aura Pro X2 SSD with the latest MacOS Big Sur 11.5.1 installed?

[abittwisted]

Ok, I currently have a 2t OWC Aura Pro X SSD on my 2013 MacBook Pro running Catalina. I just purchased another to use in my 2015 13" MacBook Pro. I put the drive in the external case to format the drive then install the current Catalina then drop it into my 2015 MacBook Pro. However. I am unable to see the drive no matter what I do. Not sure what the problem might be.

[Hamidi]

Hi. I have a mac pro 2013 with Big Sur.
I want to change the disk to (Aura Pro X2 1TB SSD) how should I do it? I'm not that good at mac computers.
How to install MacOs high sierra?
Sincerely

[kelsoc]

So, if i understand this correctly. you cannot install High sierra when the drive is installed but high sierra has to be installed on the computer first. Then it is said it cant be from a backup... If i had backed up a computer from a time machine does that not count? I have not updated from app store since the time machine recovery. does this matter? been wanting to buy one for a day or two now.

[matto]

hello I bought a ssd of your company(owc aura pro x2)! macOS Big Sur works fine for, but I can't upgrade to macOS monterey. what can I do ?