OWC Mercury Electra 3G MAX 960GB Review: 1TB of NAND in 2.5" Form Factor
by Kristian Vättö on October 18, 2012 1:00 AM ESTPower Consumption
Since the Mercury Electra has more components than typical SSDs, it shouldn't come as a surprise that it also consumes more power than other SSDs. Especially idle power consumption is very high, higher than what many SSDs consume under full load. Silicon Image claims that the Sil5923 consumes 0.55W but don't specify if this is idle or load power consumption. I feel that the idle power consumption is noticeably higher because two SF-2281 SSDs would only consume a maximum of 2W, which leaves at least 0.86W of power used by something else.
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geoffty - Saturday, October 20, 2012 - link
"If we go a year back in time, you had to fork off around $1000 for a 512GB SSD"It's "fork out", not "fork off". That just sounds rude. :-)
Donkey2008 - Saturday, October 20, 2012 - link
SandForce/LSI (Milpitas, CA)OWC (Woodstock, IL)
Micron (Boise, ID)
USA! USA! USA!
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
It's made in the US.adriantrances - Sunday, October 21, 2012 - link
250MB speeds + Sandforce + 1100$ + OWC = GGGood luck selling that.
Luscious - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
How can you talk 9 pages about a SSD and not mention the z-height? Many notebook/netbook drive caddies won't fit a 9.5mm device.Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
It's 9.5mm like most 2.5" drives are. Usually I don't mention the height unless it's thinner (or thicker) than the usual 9.5mm. Most laptops use 2.5" 9.5mm drives, although some thinner models have started to adopt 7mm drives (especially Ultrabooks and other SSD only laptops).