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Saturday, June 18, 2011

REVIEW >> OWC Mercury Electra 6G: SSD with speeds of more than 550 MBps


Other World Computing company has introduced a new line of SSD Mercury Electra 6G, built on the SandForce SF-2281 controller. The prefix «6G» in the title identifies interface version: SATA 6 Gbps, the read / write speed is at about the same level as other SSD featuring this controller and they are 556 Mbps and 523 Mbps respectively.

It should be noted that when connected to a SATA port of previous version the numbers fall to a level of 284 Mbps and 268 Mbps. The theoretical limit of operations with 4 KB blocks reaches 60 000 IOPS. 20-nm process technology is used in memory production. However 7% of the total storage volume is used for service needs so user available capacity is 120, 240 and 480 GB, depending on the model.

NCQ queue depth is 32 requests long. OWC says that the performance of Mercury Electra 6G is not reduced during intensive long-term use as can happen with some other drives. This drive comes in the SSD 2.5 inch form factor and can already be purchased at manufacturer's website prices start at $ 230 for the younger model.

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