{"id":9745,"date":"2011-04-15T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:34:09","slug":"first-reviews-of-the-extreme-pro-6g-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9745-first-reviews-of-the-extreme-pro-6g-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"First reviews of the Extreme Pro 6G are in!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are so excited about the new OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD<\/a> that we did a pre-shipping test to four highly-respected independent review labs\u2014BareFeats<\/a>, Mac Performance Guide<\/a>, The SSD Review<\/a>, and TweakTown<\/a>\u2014so they could put our new SSD to the test and see how it stacked up. Our hopes were high, especially after all the accolades the 6G\u2019s older brother, the original OWC Mercury Extreme Pro<\/a>, managed to accrue over the last two years.<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t disappointed. All four reviewers have reported back and it looks like we\u2019ve got another hit on our hands.<\/p>\n

In his review of the 6G<\/a>, Rob-ART of BareFeats <\/strong>said the \u201cOWC 6G SSD is the fastest SSD we have tested to date.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>In the SpeedTools Test Suite he used to compare the 6G to the competition, the OWC offering soundly defeated the competition, and in something just as interesting, the Mercury Extreme Pro, a 3Gb\/s drive, actually kept pace with (and in one test, beat) a competing 6Gb\/s drive! With a showing like that, you can be sure our Mercury Pro 6G SSD is going to be the drive to beat.<\/p>\n

Lloyd Chambers of Mac Performance Guide <\/strong>has a tendency to beat the stuffing out of a drive. He subjects these drives to levels of abuse that would take \u201creal world\u201d users years to dish out. You can pretty much see that it takes quite a bit to impress him, so when he declared <\/a>the performance he got out of his OWC 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G as \u201cnever-before-seen single-drive speeds\u2014 awesome!\u201d <\/em><\/strong>we took that with a great deal of pride, especially when he claimed that \u201cJust yesterday, to get these speeds, I\u2019d have to install two SSDs and use them as a RAID-0 stripe.\u201d
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The first two reviews we heard from were Mac-centric sources; that makes sense, as we\u2019re kinda Mac oriented. However, like the Mercury Extreme Pros before them, the new Pro 6G SSDs are very much at home in the PC world. We wanted to make sure that both sides of the fence are represented, so we sent a drive to Les Tokar of The SSD Review <\/strong>to see what he had to say about it. After four pages\u2019 worth of test results<\/a>, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD walked away with an \u201cEditors Choice without a second thought!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last, but not least, though, we heard from Chris Ramseyer from TweakTown, who, after calling the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G “the fastest single SSD we’ve tested”<\/em>, proceeded to describe how much faster his computer felt compared to a previous-generation SSD from another vendor. When all was said and done, the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G walked off with another “Editor’s Choice” award, with their “Bottom Line” stating that <\/span>“Words like instant, fast and even phrases like OMG are brought to new levels of comprehension.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Look for our formal announcement early next week, but if you want to get your Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD right now, the 120GB models are already available<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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