OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Review (120GB)
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 5, 2011 1:45 AM ESTOverall System Performance using PCMark Vantage
Next up is PCMark Vantage, another system-wide performance suite. For those of you who aren’t familiar with PCMark Vantage, it ends up being the most real-world-like hard drive test I can come up with. It runs things like application launches, file searches, web browsing, contacts searching, video playback, photo editing and other completely mundane but real-world tasks. I’ve described the benchmark in great detail before but if you’d like to read up on what it does in particular, take a look at Futuremark’s whitepaper on the benchmark; it’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to be a member of a comprehensive storage benchmark suite. Any performance impacts here would most likely be reflected in the real world.
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taltamir - Thursday, May 5, 2011 - link
doesn't the Z version let you access the CPU's video decoding/encoding engine while having an external GPU?While with the P and H versions you have to choose one or the other?
jb510 - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
In considerin an SSD for an OS X boot volume should one be more concerned with compressible data or incompressible data? I wondering because I know OS X compreses some of it's OS files and presumably many apps do the same thing. Further I'm assuming the light workload test uses a windows simulation, can anyone say if/how that would differ from OS X?I'm probably more worried about it than I need to be but trying to decide between OCZ/OWC, Intel and Crucial and still not clear which is best for a dual drive setup in a MacBook pro.
zilab - Saturday, June 4, 2011 - link
"OCZ is still SandForce's favorite partner and thus it gets preferential treatment when it comes to firmware."I just confirmed with OWC, they're shipping the 6G with the 60K IOPS read/write frimware. Hope you update your article soon. This is kinda misleading, I'm reading comments here and people think that only OCZ drives have the 60K IOPS firmware.
nish0323 - Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - link
I had the Crucial C300, OCZ Vertex 3, and the OWC Extreme 6G in my laptop on a Sata6G connection... and honestly I didn't notice a difference in speed between the three of them. Against the Vertex 2 and the Intel X-25, there was a slight difference. In the end, I decided to go with OWC Extreme 6G for one reason... **** FIVE YEAR WARRANTY ****!!! That's friggin' awesome... ONLY SSD to offer a 5 year warranty on an SSD. And costwise, they're around the same or lower as the rest of the competition.