OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 480GB and 240GB Solid State Drives (SSD)

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD

Just on the market is the new OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE 480GB solid state drive.

Laptop users looking for a single drive should be looking at this drive, and it would make a great drive even in a Mac Pro, assuming that’s enough capacity.

I received a 240GB and 480GB model for testing, and I tested them both as single drives, see the test results below.

See my previous blog entry for details on the differences in the Mercury Pro and Mercury Pro RE line.

Readers have inquired about Apple’s 512GB SSD. My response is “caveat emptor”. Solid state drives are definitely not equivalent (though all of them are expensive), many of them start slower, degrade quickly and some just fail outright.
Read my report.

The OWC Mercury Extreme line is the best choice on the market today for Mac users.

Performance

Read the review of the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE 480GB vs 240GB models.

OWC Extreme Pro RE 400GB vs 200GB single drive speed on Mac Pro Nehalem