Mercury Electra 6G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm 6Gb/s SSD

Mercury Electra 6G SSD
2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm Solid State Drive
High-Performance Storage for Notebook
and Desktop Computers.
When only the fastest and most reliable Solid State Drive on the market today will suffice for your data storage and backup, look no further than the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD.

* Get maximum mobile performance and battery life from your notebook.
* Turn your Mac Pro or PC desktop into an extreme performance single drive.

The Mercury Extreme SSD line features industry leading SandForce® DuraClass™ Technologies:

* DuraWrite™ extends the endurance of your Solid State Drive (SSD).
* Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.
* Intelligent Read Disturb Management spreads the active read/write across the flash components eliminating data corruption caused by constant use.
* Intelligent "Recycling" for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted.
* RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup.
* Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention and drive life.

This internal 2.5″ SATA SSD uses the latest SandForce 2281 Processor and DuraClass™ technology to deliver the highest transfer speed, endurance, performance, and power efficiency available today.

With sustained reads up to 559MB/s and writes up to 515MB/s, up to 100X greater data protection than enterprise class Hard Disk Drives, and RAISE technology for RAID like data protection and reliability, the OWC Mercury Extreme SSD line delivers unbeatable performance that's designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts and backed by a three year warranty.
Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD



Highlights

* One of the fastest Internal SATA 2.5″
SSD available...and Built in the USA!
* Ultra-efficient Block Management
& Wear Leveling for unparalleled reliability & performance.
* Extreme Power Efficiency
* 3 year OWC warranty

OWC's SSD vs HDD Shootout!

Seeing is believing! Watch a side-by-side
shootout between an SSD and HDD in a
MacBook Pro loading Adobe's
Creative Suite on startup.
Full 16 channel Implementation
With anything less than than 12 channel implementation, OWC has found significant reduction in real world performance metrics. To ensure the highest level of performance OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs only utilize the full 16 data channel design.
Better by Design
"Mean Time To Failure" - We all know that nothing lasts forever. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get the most out of your investment. OWC Mercury SSDs with DuraWrite™ Technology, optimizes writes to the flash memory over conventional controllers increasing the overall endurance and reliability of the complete SSD. Highly intelligent block management and wear leveling also extends the overall endurance. With this technology, MLC-based SSDs can operate for years in demanding use applications without daily write restrictions. This adds up to a MTTF that is higher than most enterprise class hard drives and SSDs on the market today.
High Performance Internal Storage
Replace your conventional hard drive with a reliable solid state drive. Unlike traditional hard disk drives, OWC solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness.
High Reliability & Protection
OWC SSDs allocate some of the drive capacity for RAISE, to provide real time data redundancy,
ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space.

Example: A 240GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD is actually a 256GB drive with 7% of the drive's capacity allocated for data management. This management maintains the drive's high-performance and high reliability levels. Unlike many 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.


120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specs:
Specifications
Form Factor
2.5″ SSD
Interface
SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 Compliant
Capacity1
120GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components - 128GB
8GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction
Formatted Capacity2
111GiB
NAND
Synchronous Tier 1/Grade A 2X-nm NAND Flash Storage
Controller
Controller SandForce Processor with full SF2281 Series 7% Over Provisioning firmware set.
SMART Attributes
Standard
Manufacturer Model Number
OWCSSDMX6G120
RoHS Compliant
Yes
Format
Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)
Physical
Height (max)
9.45mm (0.372″)
Width (max)
70.06mm (2.758″)
Length (max)
100.12mm (3.941″)
Weight
80 grams +/- 2 grams
0.176 lbs +/- 2.82 oz
Reliability3
Data Reliability
ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
Security
Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit & 128-bit AES-compliant
TRIM Support
OS Dependent
Nonrecoverable Read Errors
Less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read
Warranty
3 Year OWC Warranty
Performance
Sustained
Reads 6Gb/s
559MB/s
Sustained
Writes 6Gb/s
515MB/s
Sustained
Reads 3Gb/s
284MB/s
Sustained
Writes 3Gb/s
266MB/s
Processor Channels Utilized
Full 16 of 16 maximum data channels implemented
Random 4K Read4
Up to 60,000 IOPS
Random 4K Write4
Up to 60,000 IOPS
Read Latency
less than 0.1ms
Write Latency
less than 0.1ms
Environmental (Operating)
Temperature (°F)
32°F to 158°F
Temperature (°C)
0°C to 70°C
Environmental (Non-Operating)
Temperature (°F)
-67°F to 302°F
Temperature (°C)
-55°C to 150°C
Acoustics
Idle (Typical)
0.0 bels
Seek (Typical)
0.0 bels

1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
4. Specifications provided by SandForce.