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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Page 2: Sustained Transfer Speed — 2011 MacBook Pro 6G Port Page 3: Read Applications Folder — 2011 MacBook Pro 6G Port Page 4: Duplicate Image Files — 2011 MacBook Pro 6G Port Page 5: Photoshop CS5 diglloydMedium Benchmark Page 6: Photoshop CS5 diglloydHuge Benchmark — OWC 480GB 6G SSD on Mac Pro 3G Port Page 7: Sustained Transfer Speed — OWC 480GB 6G SSD on 2010 Mac Pro 3G Ports Page 8: Sustained Transfer Speed — OWC 480GB 6G SSD on 2011 MacBook Pro 6G Page 9: Sustained Transfer Speed — 2010 Mac Pro Internal 3G Port 120GB Model

Photoshop CS5 diglloydHuge Benchmark — OWC 480GB 6G SSD on Mac Pro 3G Port

This test uses the diglloydHuge benchmark. This machine could run faster with more memory; the point of this test is to show the influence of scratch volume speed as a way of demonstrating the performance of the OWC Mercury Extrem Pro 6G 480GB SSD.

A single OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD running on the 2010 Mac Pro internal 3G SATA port (a big handicap) almost matches a fast 4-drive RAID-0 stripe of Hitachi 7K3000 hard drives. Impressive!

The Mac Pro internal SATA port bandwidth limitations means that a 2-drive RAID-0 stripe is about all one can hope for, yielding a 32% reduction in time over a single 480GB SSD.

The “X 2” and “X 3” and “X 4” designations means a RAID-0 stripe of 2/3/4 drives.