Hard drives are like super cars – you want them to be bigger, faster and fuel or energy efficient. And if hard drives are like super cars, then the new Mercury Extreme Pro solid state drive from Other World Computing is most likely to be the Ferrari 599 electric hybrid. The Mercury Extreme Pro SSD is larger, faster and greener than most market competitors. The only difference with the Ferrari is that this one won’t burn a $300,000.00 hole on your pocket.
So how big is the newest SSD from OWC? Well, it could go as low as 60GB for the budget conscious and as high as 480GB for the more extreme enthusiast. That translates to the highest drive capacity for an SSD on the market today. And that’s just the entrée. The main course – 7% over-provisioning for highest data reliability, 285MB/s transfer speed guaranteed not to degrade overtime, thanks to the use of Block Management and Wear Leveling technologies and finally up to 100x data protection thru SandForce DuraClass technology. For dessert, how about an energy efficient power consumption less than 1/7th used by other similar competing products. The new Mercury Extreme Pro Solid State Drive is THE hard drive of today, a perfect solution for boot drives and applications requiring extreme performance.
All OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD’s are now market ready ranging from $219.99, $379.99, $699.99 and $1,579.99, for 60GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB models respectively.
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Solid State Drives are like super soldiers – they are more energy efficient, more compact, lighter, faster, quieter, cooler, tougher and stronger as compared to their “run of the mill†platter-powered 7,200 RPM disk drive cousins. Having the primary benefit of having no mechanically moving parts, they can even do far better than HDD’s labeled as “performance drives†. Technically, SSD’s are the future of hard drives and SanDisk is going full speed ahead to join the next generation of storage solutions with their very own G3 Solid State Drive. The SanDisk G3 SSD boasts up to 220 Mb/sec read speeds and up to 120 Mb/sec write speed; that means it can open, close and run applications twice as fast as some 7,200 HDDs. The G3 was engineered to withstand everyday shock and vibrations and due to its Olympic-like endurance, it can also hold out at least 80 TERABYTES of data written and rewritten all over it. Here’s the lay down of some of the basic specs of the G3:
