Name: 960GB OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe Solid-State Drive with 2 x eSATA Ports
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCSSDPHWE2R960
Rating: 4.95 (94 reviews)

960GB OWC Mercury Accelsior E2

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Built for the Most Demanding Needs of Video Editing and Creative Professionals

Delivers up to 820MB/s of blistering performance
Up to 100,000 IOPS
Cooler, quieter, and more energy efficient operation compared to standard hard drives
SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data redundancy protection and reliability
Easy to install
3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

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Boot, Launch, Create, and Save Faster

With its simultaneous internal and external storage performance, the Mercury Accelsior E2 offers the the best combination of speed, capacity, and connectivity available today.

Stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. Start working faster with near instantaneous boots and app launches. And save your work faster than ever before.

The Accelsior E2 utilizes the PCIe slot in Mac Pros and PC towers, the fastest data interface available, to deliver up to 820MB/s of blistering performance. That's nearly 3x faster than an SSD equipped Mac Pro 3Gb/s drive bay, and well beyond 6Gb/s drive speeds.

When your work is completed, transfer it for backup or archival purposes at speeds up to 600MB/s via the two eSATA expansion ports to any external storage device with an eSATA port.

Boost Server and Gaming Data Speeds

In addition to video-editing and multimedia creation / management deployment, the Accelsior E2 takes servers and gaming to entirely new levels of performance with it's extreme data speeds.

With up to 100,000 IOPS, business-critical applications like online transaction processing databases are given an instant boost. For gamers, Accelsior E2's speed dramatically reduces game level-loading, object streaming, and save times for more playing and less waiting.

And Laptops, Mac mini, & iMac Too...

The Accelsior E2 isn't just for desktop computing. With an external PCIe expansion chassis, such as the OWC Helios, you can enjoy the Accelsior E2's performance benefits with any Thunderbolt port equipped Mac or PC.

Efficient, Reliable, and Upgradeable SSD Blades

Accelsior E2's SandForce Driven™ SSD blades provide a more responsive and productive computing experience with cooler, quieter, and more energy efficient operation compared to standard hard drives. SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data redundancy protection and reliability.

And with the future introduction of higher capacity Mercury Accelsior SSD blades, you'll be able to meet expanding storage needs while extending the useful life of your investment.

Easy-to-Install & Robust

Accelsior is as easy-to-install as memory a upgrade, yet robust enough to handle the rigors of pro environments.

Includes

(1) OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 SSD to PCIe Adapter Card
(2) OWC Mercury Accelsior Solid-State Drives
(1) Quick Start Guide for OWC Mercury Accelsior E2
3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

An eSATA 6Gb/s connecting cable is required to connect an external eSATA drive (available separately).

Specs

Total Capacity

1.0TB

Formatted Capacity

954GiB

Drive Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Controller

JMicron 355 Processor

S.M.A.R.T. Attributes

Standard attributes supported

Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Up to 32 simultaneous commands

Form Factor

Low Profile PCI Express

Drive Interface

PCIe 2.0 x2, AHCI

Random 4K Read

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Read Latency (Max)

100 µs

Write Latency (Max)

100 µs

Error Correction

Built-in ECC

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

Dimensions

Height: 12.0 cm (4.7 in)
Length: 18.0 cm (7.1 in)
Width: 2.1 cm (0.8 in)

Weight

85.0 g (0.19 lbs)

RoHS Compliant

Reach Certification

Ambient Temperature

Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C)
Non-Operating: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)

Altitude

Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

Benchmarks

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