{"id":7810,"date":"2010-11-05T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:35:47","slug":"owc-ssd-turns-a-great-computer-into-an-incredible-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/7810-owc-ssd-turns-a-great-computer-into-an-incredible-one\/","title":{"rendered":"OWC SSD Turns A Great Computer Into An Incredible One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7818\" title=\"GlobeBlownAway\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/GlobeBlownAway1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/GlobeBlownAway1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/GlobeBlownAway1-190x120.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/GlobeBlownAway1-284x179.jpg 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/GlobeBlownAway1-272x170.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I\u2019d like to tell you the story of how I turned a great computer into an incredible computer. While I spend my days helping our <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/Service\/Comments.cfm\">loyal OWC customers<\/a> get the most out our excellent computer upgrades and accessories, I spend my free time working and playing on my home-built gaming PC. I\u2019m what is generally referred to as an enthusiast. I spend a lot of time and money building and tweaking my computers to squeeze the most performance I can from the components, giving myself the best possible computing experience. I have an overclocked i7 quad-core processor, 12GB of overclocked RAM, and an ATI Radeon 5870 video card (I\u2019ll be adding a second 5870 soon).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Given the above information, one would naturally assume that I would have an SSD as my boot drive, and I built my current rig with an 80GB Intel X-25M, widely considered to be the best consumer SSD at the time. Before I go any further, I just want to say that putting an SSD in your computer really is the best thing you can do to increase overall performance aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/apple\/memory\/\">installing more RAM<\/a>, and in many instances it makes a bigger difference than RAM. That Intel SSD made an amazing difference. The computer boots up so much faster than even a <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/search\/Velociraptor\">10,000 RPM Western Digital Velociraptor<\/a>, and applications load in the blink of an eye, sometimes literally. 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Of course, I\u2019d say an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD. But do you know what\u2019s even better than that? <em>Two of them in a <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1951-raid-for-the-rest-of-us-the-adventures-of-little-johnny\">RAID 0<\/a><\/em>. I don\u2019t mess around with my upgrades. I decided to get two of our 120GB SSDs and stripe them together, effectively tripling my storage space while increasing my transfer speeds astronomically. My read speeds <strong>went up about three times<\/strong>, and <strong>my write speeds increased <em>over six times what I was getting with my Intel<\/em>.<\/strong> I realize that pitting a six-month-old Intel SSD to two of our SSDs striped together is not comparing apples to apples, but it <em>is<\/em> comparing apples to <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to tell you the story of how I turned a great computer into an incredible computer. 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