Speed Test with the OWC Mercury Extreme SSD
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Great video and super fast SSD. I've considered getting an SSD and MCE Optibay with a 640GB drive. I want to use the SSD for photo and video editing. What do you think?
1 year ago 3
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Wow!! Amazing!
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Mine boots in 19 seconds
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@OWCmacsales Yeah, makes sense and that was quite a concise answer, appreciated. These SSD's you guys have look really good, are you planning to make any SATA III versions or are they already available?
Digging them tho.
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its funny how computers are so bottlenecked now so much processing power yet 99.9% of people are held back by there hdd
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... and the one without the "pro" is not sold anymore?
If I buy a used Mercury Extreme without the "Pro", can make it to a "Pro" by updating the firmware?
Cheers,
Chris
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That's not right, my Mac Mini w/ stock 5400RPM HDD boots up in like 10-15 seconds, so then why is the stock HDD MacBook Pro taking so long to boot up? Not trying to say this test is rigged and it's evident the SSD is blazingly fast, but is there a a reason why the MacBook Pro took so long to boot up? I just have a feeling it could have been faster. Just curious. And how much memory did each laptop have?
FeeLtheHertZ 9 months ago
@FeeLtheHertZ Each had the minimum amount of memory as offered by Apple. Additionally, each machine is setup pre-boot to automatically launch five programs within Adobe's Creative Suite 4, which utilizes a good portion of the memory at startup. If we maxed the memory in both machines, the total boot times would be quicker. When a machine "runs out" of memory it uses the hard drive itself as a temporary memory location - thus showing the drastic change in boot time seen here.
OWCmacsales 9 months ago
Is the "how" video here yet?
andreipetunin 1 year ago
@andreipetunin Installing a solid state drive is no different than installing any other hard disk drive. We have several videos available showing how to install a drive into most Mac computers produced in the last 10 years. Check out our channel to find the right video for your machine.
OWCmacsales 1 year ago
Hi, is the ''Mercury Extreme" the same drive as the "Mercury Extreme Pro" ? Is there a difference? I know there is the RAiD and Non-RAID edition, but is there also an non-PRO edition?
Chrisabled 1 year ago
@Chrisabled When our original SSD was released, it was the Mercury Extreme SSD. Once the new RE edition was introduced, with new firmware for both the RE and non-RE versions, the "Pro" was added to the naming convention of both models.
OWCmacsales 1 year ago