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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Real-World SSD Performance Considerations (Introduction) Page 2: Seasoning SSDs for Testing Page 3: New vs Seasoned OWC Mercury Pro RE 200GB Page 4: New vs Seasoned OWC Mercury Pro 240GB Page 5: New vs Seasoned Crucial RealSSD 256GB Page 6: New vs Seasoned Crucial M225 256GB Page 7: New vs Seasoned Intel 160GB G2 Page 8: Comparing SSD Performance Results Page 9: Comparing SSD Performance: Fill-volume 1000-file Test Results Page 10: Severe Duty: OWC Extreme Pro RE vs Crucial RealSSD Page 11: Severe Duty: OWC Extreme Pro vs Intel 160GB G2 Page 12: Severe Duty: OWC Extreme Pro vs Apple 512GB SSD Page 13: Real World SSD Performance Conclusions

Comparing SSD Performance Results

This simplified view really doesn’t tell the whole story, be sure to see the full performance graph.

Figures are MB/sec, using Mac OS X file system APIs.

The OWC Mercury Extreme offers the best write performance, but it is also much more consistent, see the full plot.

The OWC Mercury Extreme offers the same read performance as the Crucial RealSSD on the test system with SATA 3Gb/sec. In a system with SATA 6Gb/sec, the Crucial RealSSD might perform faster, but no Mac has that capability internally as yet.