Performance
6Gb/s - 4K Random Data Rate Comparison
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Read Speeds - 60x Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
34MB/sFactory 5400RPM Hard Drive
0.558MB/sLonger bars are better.
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Write Speeds - 89x Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
95MB/sFactory 5400RPM Hard Drive
1.056MB/sLonger bars are better.
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Data rates experienced in "real world" scenario of ripping a mp3 file, saving a Photoshop file, browsing the web, playing a HD video and other commonly performed tasks.
Tested on Intel Core i7 2600 3.4GHz Processor on Asus P8P67WS Revolution Motherboard with built in Intel 6G & 3G controller interfaces
3Gb/s - 4K Random Data Rate Comparison
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Read Speeds - 57x Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
32MB/sFactory 5400RPM Hard Drive
0.558MB/sLonger bars are better.
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Write Speeds - 73x Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
78MB/sFactory 5400RPM Hard Drive
1.056MB/sLonger bars are better.
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Data rates experienced in "real world" scenario of ripping a mp3 file, saving a Photoshop file, browsing the web, playing a HD video and other commonly performed tasks.
Tested on Intel Core i7 2600 3.4GHz Processor on Asus P8P67WS Revolution Motherboard with built in Intel 6G & 3G controller interfaces
SSD Speed Comparison - 6Gb/s
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Sustain Read - up to 57% Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
556MB/sIntel 510 Series 6G SSD
500MB/sCrucial C300 6G SSD
355MB/sLonger bars are better.
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Sustain Write - up to 274% Faster!
OWC Electra 6G SSD
523MB/sIntel 510 Series 6G SSD
315MB/sCrucial C300 6G SSD
140MB/sLonger bars are better.
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We compared our OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD against Industry Leading SSD's from Intel and Crucial.
Tested on Intel Core i7 2600 3.4GHz Processor on Asus P8P67WS Revolution Motherboard with built in Intel 6G & 3G controller interfaces
Key Features
OWC's SSD vs HDD Shootout!
Seeing is believing! Watch a side-by-side shootout between an
OWC SSD
and HDD in a MacBook Pro loading Adobe's Creative
Suite on startup.
Watch the SSD vs HDD shootout!
Why OWC SSD?
- 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™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) 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 of the drive.
- Up to 100X greater data protection than what 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: 128-bit AES-compliant
Over Provisioning & Wear Management Explained
OWC SSDs allocate some of the drive capacity for RAISE, to provide real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space.
Example: A 240GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD is actually a 256GB drive with 7% of the drive's capacity allocated for data management. This management maintains the drive's high-performance and high reliability levels.
Unlike many SSDs on the market today, the Mercury Pro family uses advanced DuraWrite™ wear-leveling and block management technologies to keep Read/Write performance at peak, while others see performance fall.
Base Data Findings © Copyright 2010 DIGLLOYD INC (MacPerformanceGuide.com).
- SandForce Processor with full SF2281 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set
- Tier 1 2X-nm Asynchronous MLC NAND Flash Storage
- SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 Compliant
- Native Command Queuing up to 32 commands
- SMART Command Transport*
- Qualified for single drive and multiple drive production workstation RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN usage.
- 6Gb/s - Sustained Sequential Read:
up to 556MB/s - 6Gb/s - Sustained Sequential Write:
up to 523MB/s - 3Gb/s - Sustained Sequential Read:
up to 284MB/s - 3Gb/s - Sustained Sequential Write:
up to 268MB/s
- Random 4KB: Up to 60,000 IOPS
- ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
- Nonrecoverable Read Errors: Less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read
- Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant
- OS Dependent
- Standard
- less than 0.1ms
- less than 0.1ms
- Idle (Typical): 0.0 bels
- Seek (Typical): 0.0 bels
- 0.372"(H) x 2.758"(W) x 3.941"(D)
(9.45mm x 70.06mm x 100.12mm) - 80 grams +/- 2 grams
0.176 lbs +/- 2.82 oz
- Yes
- Unformatted.
- 0ºC to +70ºC
- -55ºC to +150ºC
- Designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts
- 2008 MacBook Pro 15" (MacBookPro 5,1; 5,2; 5,3; 5,4; 5,5 and MacBook 5,1)
While a 6G SSD does function in a 2008 MacBook Pro 15" and 13" Macbook, it will only do so at SATA Revision 1.0 (1.5Gb/s) speeds rather that the SATA Revision 2.0 (3.0Gb/s) speed the machine can deliver. Should owners of these machines desire another SSD option, the Mercury Extreme Pro 3G SSD does run at the full SATA Revision 2.0 (3Gb/s) specification. - 2011 MacBook Pro 17" Now 6G Capable!
Thanks to Apple's Macbook Pro EFI Firmware update 2.2 released on 9/14/2011, OWC has test confirmed proper operation of OWC 6G SSDs in all 2011 MacBook Pro 17" (Model ID MacBookPro8,3) models. After successfully applying this update, your Boot ROM Version will be: MBP81.0047.B1E. Please read our very informative Blog Post for additional information.
