{"id":13405,"date":"2012-02-24T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=13405"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:30:36","slug":"firmware-update-part-ii-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmware Update Part II &#8211; The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13408\" title=\"stopwatch\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch.jpg 200w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-138x190.jpg 138w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-87x120@2x.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>In case you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13398-owc-announces-firmware-update-for-industry-leading-mercury-solid-state-drive-ssd-line\">we released a new firmware update for our SSD line yesterday<\/a>. At the same time, we\u2019ve been running tests to determine if there was any impact on performance.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there <em>is <\/em>a bit of an effect in that this latest revision seems to smooth out the performance of the drive, lessening the variance in write performance considerably.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably just easier to show you.<\/p>\n<p>We tested a 240GB <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G\/\">OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD<\/a> using the DiskTester diglloyd Tools both before and after the firmware update, and got these results.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13405 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/stopwatch-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"138\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-138x190.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-138x190.jpg 138w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch.jpg 200w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch-87x120@2x.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As you can see, read rates stay right around the same speed and variance, but take a look at how much less varied the write rates have become after the update. You\u2019ll also notice that while the variance has narrowed, it has narrowed toward the faster range. Now the minimum speed is right around the level that used to be considered the middle-0f-the road for this drive; it\u2019s now slightly faster.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this increase in speed isn\u2019t likely to be perceptible to most users &#8211; you\u2019d have to be writing files in the multi-gigabyte range just to see a couple of seconds shaved off. However, the stabilization of and increase of\u00a0 write speeds may be an additional benefit if you choose to upgrade your firmware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/20391-owc-releases-firmware-update-for-industry-leading-ssd-line\">OWC Releases Firmware Update For Industry-Leading SSD Line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, we released a new firmware update for our SSD line yesterday. At the same time, we\u2019ve been running tests to determine if there was any impact on performance. Well, there is a bit of an effect in that this latest revision seems to smooth out the performance of the drive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119,3766],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benchmarkingperformance","category-testing-lab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firmware Update Part II - The Results<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read rates stay right around the same speed and variance, the write rates have become less varied and average faster after the update.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Firmware Update Part II - The Results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read rates stay right around the same speed and variance, the write rates have become less varied and average faster after the update.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rocket Yard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoweredbyOWC\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-24T20:46:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-22T18:30:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/stopwatch.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"276\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OWC Newsfeed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/poweredbyOWC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OWC Newsfeed\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/13405-firmware-update-part-ii-the-results\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OWC Newsfeed\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/3ba79aedbd7ad1c0c4c8a33295f0c45b\"},\"headline\":\"Firmware Update Part II &#8211; 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