So currently there is no improvement on this problem.Īgain today I had a chat with the support team, and the most recent quote from the OWC support person is that the 3 of us in our department which have the same problem should all get our batteries replaced.įrom what I'm seeing, my battery life is just fine, so this does not seem to be a fix for the actual problem. I did both as instructed, then left the machine sleeping with battery power only for the night, and it showed a decrease to 53% battery life overnight. Day before yesterday they recommended the PRAM and SMC reset. I have been in contact with OWC/MacSales support again several times on this issue. (I have not heard back from OWC after contacting them a couple weeks ago.)

I was aware of the decrease in battery life that some Aura Pro SSD customers reported, but I was not expecting this. I did a clean install on the new SSD (No Time Machine backup), and I have tried doing an SMC and NVRAM/PRAM reset without any luck. I'm pretty certain this red light was not visible before the upgrade, I even checked with a friend's same model Macbook Pro and we could not see any lights coming through the air vents. More recently I noticed it overheats a lot (in 3 years I had never heard fan noises), even when it is asleep with the lid down it is notably hot.Īlso while asleep, there's a red light on, that can be seen through the air vents. Firstly, I noticed that the mouse movement was lagging notably when connected to a certain power outlet in my university, making it unusable. However, I have noticed several issues recently. I was pretty happy with the purchase as I was getting 40% higher writing speeds and slightly higher read speeds with the Aura Pro X vs the Apple stock one (might be due to it being almost full when tested).

A few weeks ago I upgraded my Macbook Pro Retina 13' Early 2015's SSD to a larger one from OWC: the Aura Pro X.

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