OWC Announces Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs w/ SandForce Controller
Other World Computing today announced its latest 2.5″ SSD called the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G. This drive uses SandForce Driven SATA Revision 3.0 6Gb/s controllers that are designed to run at their full potential on Intel Sandy Bridge playforms. The OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD delivers new heights of drive performance with sustained data rates of up to over 550MB/s – up to 267% faster performance than other leading brands 6G SSDs. The OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G is available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities at $319.99, $579.99 and $1799.99. All of the drives feature 7% over provisioning. The 120GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G is available now with the 240GB and 480GB versions coming out later in May.
To achieve the higher bandwidth potential of the SATA 6Gb/s bus standard, OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs utilize synchronous NAND instead of commonly utilized asynchronous NAND. Synchronous NAND enables reads and writes to be “synced” with the SSD processor’s clock signal for maximum data throughput. Additionally, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs is the first SandForce processor based SSD to utilize a full 16 data channel design instead of lower cost four and eight channel implementations. By combining these best in class processes, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD is able to deliver up to 267% faster performance than other leading brands 6G SSDs.
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