American brand OWC has great ambitions clearly in the market for SSD. Having been among the first to market using the SSD controller SandForce SF-1500, it is the first to announce an SSD controller SandForce a capacity of 480 GB.

This capability involves using a controller SF-1200 with only 12.6% of space reserved for the management of wear as against 27% in the origin. Also to 480 GB model, the range of SSD OWC Mercury Extreme Pro includes models 60, 120 and 240 GB All SSDs are still pre-order the respective prices of $ 220, $ 380, $ 700 and $ 1,580.