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Mac | PC
Fully SATA Compatible
3 / 5 Year Warranty
Over 500 MB/s Read/Write
SandForce Driven
Designed and Made in the USA
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Which OWC 6G SSD is right for you?
OWC
Mercury Electra 6G
OWC
Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G
Consumer
Applications
User Type
Prosumer
Applications
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High-Speed personal, home office, gaming
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Fast
High-speed audio, film, photography, graphic production
Professional Grade Performance
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Desktop & laptop compatible*
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Mac & PC
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Read: 556MB/s
Write: 523MB/s
Peak Data Rate
Read: 559MB/s
Write: 527MB/s
Read: 208MB/s
Write: 235MB/s
Incompressible
Data Rate**
Read: 479MB/s
Write: 282MB/s
Yes: 1/SPAN
RAID Support
Yes: 0/1/10/SPAN
3 Year
Warranty
5 Year
Maximum data rates based on OWC lab benchmark testing.
Actual performance may vary based on individual system parameters.
Your hard drive is holding you back.
Hard drives don't even come close to providing the speed and performance benefits of an OWC SSD.
Look at the comparison below!
HD vs SSD Chart
92x faster than hard drive
Replace your conventional hard drive with a reliable solid state drive. Unlike traditional hard drives, OWC SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution with faster system responsiveness.
The OWC SSD Difference.
  • Designed & built in the US from domestic & imported parts.
  • Intelligent "recycling" for advanced free space management.
  • Best in class error correction (ECC) and SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability without loss of transfer speed due to parity.
  • SandForce® Processor with 7% over-provisioning maximizes read and write performance to greatly extend the endurance and overall reliability.
  • Up to 100X greater data protection than the highest rated enterprise class conventional hard disk drive (HDD) provides.
  • SandForce DuraClass™ technology with ultra-efficient block management & wear leveling offers highest endurance and performance in a SSD.
  • Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit & 128-bit AES-compliant
"Editors Choice without a second thought! Great job OWC!" – Les Tokar, The SSD Review.com "The OWC 6G SSD is the fastest SSD we have tested to date..." – Rob-Art Morgan, BareFeats.com "These are never-before-seen single-drive speeds- awesome!..." – Lloyd Chambers, MacPerformanceGuide "Performance higher than you can dream about." – Chris Ramseyer, TweakTown
"Performs Like An Angry Beast - Cranks Out Chart Topping Scores Throughout Testing." – Kevin O'Brien, Storage Review.com The SSD Review "The OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB SSD receives our Editors Choice Award as a result of performance and the value they place in their clientbase." – Les Tokar, The SSD Review - 6G 240GB MacTrast "OWC's new line of SSD's truly shocks and impresses me. Extremely fast, performs well... will simply knock your socks off" – J.Glenn Kunzler, MacTrast - 6G 120GB TT Best Performance "An exceptional product with class leading performance" – Chris Ramseyer, TweakTown - 6G 240GB
La mela di Jobs "...represents the cutting edge of this technology" – La mela di Jobs - 6G 240GB The SSD Review "...one of the best available for both the PC and Mac user... you simply can't go wrong!" – Les Tokar, The SSD Review - 6G 240GB Tech Reaction "Performance is off the charts... beats anything else we've tested to date" – Rich Smith, TechREACTION - Extreme Pro 120GB Legit Reviews "...posted the best single drive read score we've seen to date of 559.24 MB/s which is dead on the specification given by OWC..." – Legit Reviews, Joe Evans – 6G 120GB
Legit Reviews "...the best overall performing SATA III drive we have tested to date. The bar is set - who will step up next?" – Legit Reviews, Joe Evans– 6G 240GB CRN "...performance of the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G was outstanding." – Edward J. Correia, CRN - 6G 240GB LAFCPUG "After two weeks of testing, we were impressed…performance numbers are clearly off the charts... worth every penny" – David Saraceno, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group 6G 240GB MacTrast "I cannot help but award the Mercury Electra 6G a full 5 out of 5 stars. ...very affordable, is incredibly robust, and offers an unmatched level of performance and reliability for the money" – J. Glenn Kunzler, MacTrast – Electra 6G 240GB
The SSD Review Editors Choice "...exemplary performance... one rock solid SSD" – Les Tokar, The SSD Review - Electra 6G 240GB Hardware Secrets "The overall winner, coming out on top in three out of the four tests." – Henry Butt, Hardware Secrets - Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Pure Overclock Editors Choice "...lightning quick speeds…puts up some outstanding results across the board...posts speeds that are among the fastest we've seen." – Jake Mete, Pure Overclock - Extreme Pro 6G 240GB MAXimum PC KICK ASS "OWC's Mercury Extreme Pro 6G ... goes toe to toe with the Vertex 3 in nearly every benchmark, and exceeds it in some ... we don't hesitate to recommend it." – Nathan Edwards, Maximum PC - Extreme Pro 6G
Benchmark Reviews Golden Tach Award "...a worthwhile buy for both notebook and desktop computer users, and helps earn our Golden Tachometer Award." – Olin Coles, Benchmark Reviews - Extreme Pro 6G 120GB Storage Review "Given all "extras" (... 30-day return policy, the feel-good US assembly and a solid reputation ...) we can easily recommend the Electra for mainstream SSD buyers who want great performance." – Kevin O'Brien, Storage Review - Electra 240GB CRN "Impressive... For its outstanding sustained read/write performance and reasonable prices... a recommended product" – Eddie Correla, CRN - Electra 6G 240GB The Storage Review "The newly updated OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G offers faster speeds... with no increase in cost... while still keeping the great five-year warranty." – Kevin O'Brien, StorageReview.com - Extreme Pro 6G
MacNN 4.5 Stars "...a practical storage choice... money...well spent" – Justin King, MacNN - Mercury Electra 6G 240GB TweakTown Best "...so damn fast ... the performance is unmatched ..." – Chris Ramseyer, TweakTown - Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Diglloyd "...fast and reliable...the only solid state drives that I recommend, pay for, and use myself." – Lloyd Chambers, DigLloyd - Mercury Extreme Pro 6G Photo this and that "I'm extremely impressed with this upgrade... Completely recommend the SSD path to anyone for whom time is precious!" – Edmond Terakopian, Photo This & That - Electra 6G 120GB
Icrontic Approval "...a worthwhile upgrade for your Mac... a huge improvement over a mechanical hard drive." – Nick Mertes, Icrontic - Electra 6G 240GB Illustrator "I couldn't believe the speed increase with the extra RAM and solid state drive! ... The videos were invaluable... to upgrade the drive." – Heath McKnight, Illustrator - Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Bjorn 3D Gold "...incredible speed... excellent performance... we can highly recommend the Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G" – Peter Kapas, Bjorn3D.com - Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Best of 2011 TUAW "Quiet, cool, and rugged drives ... provide performance that no hard disk drive can match." – Steve Sande, TUAW
Circuit Remix "If you want good performance...you can't go wrong with OWC's Mercury Electra 6G." – Brandon Hum, circuitREMIX - Mercury Electra 6G CircuitREMIX Gotta Get One Award "...the magnitude of the performance gain with the SSD is huge." – Brandon Hum, circuitREMIX - Mercury Electra 6G 240GB PureOverclock "...impressive... a great value for a top tier drive like this…a top pick." – Jonathan Coulter, PureOverclockers.com - Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB Circuit Remix "...the best Mac oriented support options for its users, and their range of SSDs cover up to the highest range of performance." – Brandon Hum, circuitREMIX - Mercury Electra 6G 240GB
Network World "...out-performed all...drives..." – Tom Henderson, Network World - Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240 GB
* Desktop machines with 3.5" drive bays require an adapter bracket such as the NewerTech AdaptaDrive.
** While any OWC SSD will provide significantly faster performance than a traditional hard drive, the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G is optimized to handle incompressible (already compressed) file types, like those used by audio, video, photography professionals, for the fastest performance available.
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