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Outperform the Competition – Mercury Extreme Pro SSD

By twinks on May 18, 2010 No Comments

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 entrÃ©e. 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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Never Go out of the Momentum with the new OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive

By twinks on May 11, 2010 No Comments

Of all the plus factors of USB 3.0, one thing is always outstanding and guaranteed – the speed. And this is also what the latest OCZ portable Enyo USB 3.0 solid state drive brags about aside from its other features. This SSD boasts the notable performance and stability of an internal SSD as well as carries the advantages and functionalities of an external storage device. The OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 is definitely the ideal storage solution especially for users who are always on the move and shares files with other computers.

The OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 delivers improved power saving technology and lesser CPU consumption compared to external HDDs. Because of SuperSpeed 5 Gbps port, file transfer is 10 times faster than the use of USB 2.0. Additionally, it is backwards-compatible with USB 2.0 legacy ports and functions as plug-and-play without the need of having extra external power tools. This makes copying and transferring of files like HD video, music, and graphics a whole lot quicker and uncomplicated. The OCZ Enyo preserves pure performance to its lifespan – thanks to the background garbage collection feature. The storage device is offered in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. The 64GB model can read up to 225 MB/s and write up to 135 MB/s while both 128GB and 256GB models read up to 260 MB/s and write up to 200 MB/s. All uses anodized aluminum housing and is shock proof up to 1500G.