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 ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011, Light Workload
Our new light workload actually has more write operations than read operations. The split is as follows: 372,630 reads and 459,709 writes. The relatively close read/write ratio does better mimic a typical light workload (although even lighter workloads would be far more read centric). The I/O breakdown is similar to the heavy workload at small IOs, however you'll notice that there are far fewer large IO transfers:
| AnandTech Storage Bench 2011—Light Workload IO Breakdown | ||||
| IO Size | % of Total | |||
| 4KB | 27% | |||
| 16KB | 8% | |||
| 32KB | 6% | |||
| 64KB | 5% | |||
Performance in our Light suite is fairly similar to Heavy suite: The Mercury Electra isn't unbelievably fast but it does okay for a SATA 3Gbps drive.
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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).