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Mercury Extreme Pro

Family of Solid State Drives (SSD)

Mac and PC compatible | Made in the USA

Lightning fast; highly efficient and rock solid. Including Enterprise RE versions (RAID-READY Enhanced) with 28% over-provisioning for exceptional reliability

These drives are state of the art, and will give you the maximum speed for your operations. From web servers, database servers, to your own Laptop, no hard drive will come close to the speed of the Mercury Extreme Pro range of solid state drives. Up to 20 times faster than the standard ESATA drive inside a MacBook Pro when tested for random read and write operations. Click here to see the range

One of the fastest Internal SATA 2.5" SSD available
Up to 285MB/s data rate.

Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Levelling
Prevents write speed degradation commonly experienced by other brands' SSD.

Extreme Power Efficiency
Uses up to 1/3 less power than hard drives and up to 1/2 less power than current SSDs* when active.

Exceptional Choice for Ultra-High RAID Performance
Great by itself, but enhanced with enterprise level 28% over provisioning for multi-drive, high-performance RAID array usage.

Easy to install
Pre-formatted for the Macintosh, simply slide in to replace the existing drive in a Macbook, Macbook Pro or Mac Mini. Mount in a Mac Pro using our IcyDock screw-less adaptor

•Get maximum mobile performance and battery life from your notebook.

•Turn your Mac Pro or PC Desktop into an extreme performance single drive, multi drive, or RAID workstation.

•Transform your webserver into a screaming fast machine

BENCHMARK PROVEN PERFORMANCE

We compared our 100GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD against Industry Leading SSD's from Intel and Crucial. All drives tested in Mac Pro 2.93GHz Quad-Core with 8GB RAM. Faster times are better.

Why Mercury Extreme Pro SSD?

•One of the fastest Internal SATA 2.5" SSD with available data rates up to 285MB/s.

•SandForce DuraClass™ technology with Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling offers highest endurance, performance, and power efficiency in a SATA SSD.

•SandForce® Processor maximizes read and write performance to greatly extend the endurance and overall reliability of the drive.

•Up to 100X greater data protection than what the highest rated enterprise class conventional hard disk drive (HDD) provides.

•Best in class error correction (ECC) and SandForce RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) technology provides RAID like data protection and reliability without loss of transfer speed due to parity.

•Intelligent "recycling" for advanced free space management

•Highly secure… all data automatically stored in AES-128 encrypted format.

•Designed and made in the US from imported parts.

What is the difference between the standard and RE versions?

The Raid Ready enhanced enterprise model incorporates 28% over-provisioning which brings reliability to another level and maintains speed in enterprise and RAID applications. Of course, a single RE drive may be used in a MacBook, with the same long term speed and reliability advantages, but the compromise is a slighly smaller usable capacity compared to an equivalent drive with less provisioning for data management. What is the difference between the standard and RE versions?

Available in six models:

Standard Pro models

40GB, 120GB , 240GB, 480GB

Raid-Ready Enhanced Enterprise models

200GB, 400GB

Over Provisioning & Wear Management Explained

Some of the drive space in OWC SSDs are allocated for RAISE – which provides real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space.

Example: An OWC Pro SSD that's 240GB in size with 7% over-provisioning is actually a 256GB drive with 7% allocated for data management, and to maintain the drive's high-performance level.

Unlike most SSDs on the market today, the Mercury Pro family uses advanced DuraWrite™ wear-leveling and block management technologies to keep Read/Write performance at peak while others see performance fall.

Awards & Reviews

"Class Leading In Many Real World Tests ... Price Is Lower Than Most On the Market ... the OWC Mercury Is At the Top of Our List."

– TweakTown

"It's the fastest SSD I've tested to date...a serious, enterprise-class SSD..."

– Bare Feats

"This Drive is a Rocket of a SSD... We Have to Give Two Thumbs Up"

– Les Tokar - The SSD Review

"Overwhelming Superiority"

– Guillaume Douillet, Hardmac

"Raw Speed is Impressive"

– Tom Nelson, About.com

"The Best Choice for Combined Speed and Operational Performance."

– Olin Coles, BenchmarkReviews.com

"An entirely new class of product ... astonishing speed, robust performance ... blows away anything from Intel or Crucial ... (sets) a new bar for performance ..."

– Lloyd Chambers, diglloyd