| OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE SSD SSDMXRE100 |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Tuesday, 01 June 2010 | |
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 TestsCrystalDiskMark 3.0 is a file transfer and operational bandwidth benchmark tool from Crystal Dew World that offers performance transfer speed results using sequential, 512KB random, and 4KB random samples. For our test results chart below, the 4KB 32-Queue Depth read and write performance was measured using a 1000MB space. CrystalDiskMark requires that an active partition be set on the drive being tested, and all drives are formatted with NTFS on the Intel ICH10 controller set to AHCI-mode. Benchmark Reviews uses CrystalDiskMark to illustrate operational IOPS performance with multiple threads. In addition to our other tests, this benchmark allows us to determine operational bandwidth under heavy load. Our tests of the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE Solid State Drive were each consistent, but only the maximum speeds were charted below. Sequential tests on the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE SSD produced a maximum read speed of 208.3 MB/s, while the write speed was only 141.4 MB/s. Oddly enough, reported sequential write speed actually increased slightly with each test. The sequential file transfer speeds have traditionally been low with this benchmark tool, especially for SandForce controllers, which is why we will concentrate on the operational IOPS performance for this section. CrystalDiskMark 3.0 reported 512K results of 192.8 MB/s read and 138.0 MB/s write performance. 4K tests produced 19.50 read and 76.29 write performance. 4KB queue depth 32 IOPS is one area where SandForce-based SSDs truly excel, and the Mercury Extreme Pro-RE climbs nears the top of our performance charts.
Displayed in the chart below, the maximum 4KB queue depth 32 IOPS performance results for several enthusiast-level storage products illustrate which products offer the best operation under load:
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Comments
the agility 2, Vertex 2 and, i might be wrong, but the corsair are all cheaper.
the mistake here being that it is sold on a MAC website, which, instantly means you will pay more for it, because it is pushed as a MAC product.
she's fast, or dear is she fast, but its not the cheaper of the SF-1200 controllers.
Boot up time is more then twice as fast as before. Prior boot up average 52.6 seconds. Boot up average now 22.1 seconds. Applications even faster !
AS of 7/05/10 23.79gb Used 35.89gb Free Total 59.68gb.
Boot time reduced by about 40 to 50%.
At start up, the 7 or 8 apps I have set to auto-launch ALL open together within one or two bounces. I never used auto-launch at login before because it used to be so slow.
Even apps like OpenOffice 3.2 and Filemaker Pro 11 launch within 1 or 2 dock bounces. Mail launches and is usable within .5 second of clicking on it. Paging through large PDFs in preview is smooth and almost seamless, as is Coverflow or iPhoto preview of large groups of photos or PDFs.
Best upgrade I've made to any computer I can ever recall owning; been using them since the Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1980.