Thread: OWC Mercury Extreme Drive analyze

The juggernaut known as Sand Force's SF-1222 controller has preceded its drive to world control as it picks up newer produces on a nearly every day basis. normally several companies that have discovered this controller are not precisely household names here in North America outside of certain circles lots of are now attempting to create a splash in the profitable SSD market.

One such company is Other World working out or OWC for short that are better known for catering to that extremely demanding, still really particular crowd of substitute computing enthusiasts. Nowadays we are going to seem at their brand new Mercury Extreme Pro 120GB Solid State drive.

OWC is not precisely considerably known here in North America outside of Apple circles but their belief is nonetheless established in this market. Even while OWC isn’t a name on everyone lips they were really the first company to release a Sand Force drive still beating OCZ to the marketplace. That does have to consider for something and in our judgments it shows OWC’s dedication to their customers.

This is not simply any ordinary Sand Force drive as it is the initial of the so called covered products we will be expecting at. In a seed shell you acquire an extra 20GB of space against the first generation SF-1222 products for your hard made money with purportedly no downsides.

In addition as this is an extensive edition we fully expect the metal to come with the most recent and greatest 310 production firmware. Unnecessary to say it will be interesting to check how this new firmware stacks up against the others we have seemed at. OCZ has had the 310 firmware out for a when now while former 301 and 305 firmware loaded drives as well litter the market from the such as of Corsair, G. Skill, Patriot and others.