OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 120GB Solid State Drive Review

by AkG     |     July 22, 2010

Crystal DiskMark


Crystal DiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds; and allows you to set the number of tests iterations to run. We left the number of tests at 5. When all 5 tests for a given section were run Crystal DiskMark then averages out all 5 numbers to give a result for that section.

Read Performance



We’re once again seeing the Mercury in-line with a first generation, pre-mass market firmware drive: the Corsair F100. This was pretty much expected but we would have liked to have seen at least some difference in performance with the latest firmware.


Write Performance



Here we’re seeing performance that is in-line with other SandForce drives and it’s actually able to narrowly beat out the excellent G.Skill Phoenix in a two of the tests. Not bad at all.
 
 
 

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