{"id":6456,"date":"2010-08-20T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:36:41","slug":"make-your-mercury-extreme-ssd-even-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/6456-make-your-mercury-extreme-ssd-even-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your Mercury Extreme SSD Even Faster!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We all know that, when installed individually, the OWC Mercury Extreme SSDs are amazingly fast<\/a>. Want to make them faster? Try putting them in a RAID 0 via a SeriTek\/2ME4-E<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Use this card (or a pair of them), a few Mercury Extreme SSDs<\/a>, and a couple of OWC Mercury Elite-AL Dual Bay Raid-Ready Enclosure Kits<\/a> equipped with a few Multi-Mounts<\/a> with your Mac Pro, and you’ve got a recipe for some fast<\/em> data access!<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t stop there – FirmTek just released an update to the 2ME4-E drivers which, in some configurations (like a 4 drive RAID 0 using 2 cards), can allow for transfer speeds up to 997 MB\/s.<\/p>\n

If you’re going to install (or already have installed) this card in your Mac Pro, by all means, make sure you install this new driver for the best performance. After you take a look the speeds shown at FirmTek’s new performance results page<\/a>, you’ll be definitely want to visit their Downloads page<\/a> to get the latest update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know that, when installed individually, the OWC Mercury Extreme SSDs are amazingly fast. Want to make them faster? Try putting them in a RAID 0 via a SeriTek\/2ME4-E. Use this card (or a pair of them), a few Mercury Extreme SSDs, and a couple of OWC Mercury Elite-AL Dual Bay Raid-Ready Enclosure Kits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3893,"comment_status":"open","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":[4],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"\nMake your Mercury Extreme SSD Even Faster!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We all know that the OWC Mercury Extreme SSDs are amazingly fast. 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