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No Hassle Return Policy & PC Certified Guarantee Aura Pro X2 PCIe-based flash storage reserves 7% of the overall capacity as free space. These jobs take advantage of available, unwritten areas on the SSD.

OWC SSDs perform maintenance tasks in the background that optimize the health, performance, and endurance of your flash drive.

Upgrade your Mac with Aura Pro X2 SSD for a fraction of the cost of a new model and keep your Mac running for years. The Aura® Pro X2 SSD gives you up to 16 times more space and the speed to keep up with your imagination today and tomorrow. If storage is tight, there's no reason to ditch the Mac you know and love. You can now erase, re-partition, remove, format and repair your OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD easily – and most importantly for me, re-install a clean Big Sur for selling an Apple Mac Pro on eBay.Tight deadlines, long nights, and terabytes of media – your Mac has been with you through it all. There you will find Disk Utility again and now it will recognize your OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD. Then you re-start your mac by pressing the OPTION key. Generate a bootable USB drive with a macOS Installer. To prepare the bootable USB drive I’ve used the free version of Disk Drill ( ). Now you can delete it and/or add a new partition.

Then you start Disk Utility from there and suddenly OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD shows up. You need a bootable USB drive with Big Sur on it. The solution is actually simple, but it’s easy to say after hours of trying a lot of things. I tried a lot of things but nothing worked. Unfortunately the OWC Aura Pro X2 didn’t even show up there. Of course I tried to reboot and use the Option+R disk utility.

The problem was that in Disk Utility the SSD (OWC Aura Pro X2) was visible but I could not remove or erase the SSD itself or the according partition. Obviously I wanted to delete all my data on it, but I couldn’t figure out how to erase my regular SSD disk and do a fresh installation of Big Sur. I tried to prepare my Apple Mac Pro for selling it on eBay. How to fix: OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD not recognized

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