OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: Stunning Performance in Thunderbay Mini: Throughput, Photoshop, Incompressible Data Too

This performance represents best of breed and is even faster than the 240GB SSDs tested last month.

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: Aggregate Throughput in OWC Thunderbay Mini

If you’re looking for the fastest, this is the ticket. The huge price drop to about $449 makes 4 X 1TB as a stripe or RAID-4 or RAID-5 highly attractive to any alternatives: that’s 3TB usable capacity (RAID-4 or RAID-5) or 4TB usable capacity (RAID-0).

OWC 960GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD: aggregate throughput using Thunderbay Mini

Also impressive is the performance with incompressible data.

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: Zeroes vs Incompressible

OWC 960GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD: zeroes vs incompressible data

And for total real world, it’s as good as its Extreme Pro 6G sibling.

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: diglloydHuge Photoshop Benchmark

OWC 960GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD: zeroes vs incompressible data