{"id":10067,"date":"2011-05-05T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:33:51","slug":"2011-imac-benchmark-testing-with-the-owc-mercury-extreme-pro-6g-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/10067-2011-imac-benchmark-testing-with-the-owc-mercury-extreme-pro-6g-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 iMac Benchmark Testing With the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-867\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" \/>What a whirlwind of information these new iMacs have been creating. Just a few hours after the machines were released, we had five out of the six base models <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9995-2011-imac-unboxing-teardown\">unboxed<\/a> and going through our gamut of tests.<\/p>\n<p>We were shocked when we installed our new OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSDs only to find that Apple had essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/10002-2011-imacs-no-sata-6gbs-yes-to-multiple-drives\">throttled the internal SATA connections<\/a> on the latest Z68 chipset from Intel to 3Gb\/s speeds when the Z68 chipset itself could accommodate up to two SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gb\/s) ports and up to four SATA Revision 2.0 (3Gb\/s) ports. 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