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Other World Computing (OWC) has announced the addition of a 60GB capacity model to its OWC Mercury Electra 6G Solid State Drive line. The new SandForce Driven 6Gb/s 60GB capacity OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD utilizes the Tier 1/Grade A NAND, to deliver 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write sustained data rates.
OWC Mercury 6G SSDs come in two models: the Mercury Electra 6G and Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G. The Mercury Electra 6G SSD offers over 500MB/s sustained data rate performance of a 6G SSD. In addition to single drive use, it can be incorporated into a RAID 1 or SPAN configuration.
The Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD, offers consumers and A/V, photography, and graphic production professionals over 500MB/s sustained data rates and up to 479MB/s incompressible data rates. In addition to single drive use, it can be incorporated into a RAID 0, 1, 10 or SPAN configuration.
According to the company, the OWC Mercury 6G SSD line is able to deliver near bus saturating speed when installed in either a Mac or PC with the SATA Revision 2.0 (3Gb/s) data bus or the latest SATA Revision 3.0 (6Gb/s). OWC benchmark testing confirms OWC Mercury 6G SSDs delivers sustained data rates over 275MB/s in the “3G’s” 300MB/s max speed bus. Taking advantage of “6G’s” interface’s maximum bandwidth of 600MB/s, Mercury 6G SSDs provide up to 559MB/s sustained reads and 527MB/s writes.
For more information, visit Other World Computing.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

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