14 DAY TRIAL // Other World Computing announced today the introduction of its highest performing solid state drives to date, the 2.5-inch Mercury Extreme Pro 6G disks that are based on SandForce's second-generation SSD controllers.
The Mercury Extreme Pro 6G series is made up of three SSD models, which pack 120GB, 240GB and 480GB of storage with 7% over provisioning.
According to the figures provided by the company, the drives are expected to deliver sequential read and write transfer speeds of 559MB/s and 515MB/s, respectively, while random 4K file read/writes can reach up to 60,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second).
All the three SSD models should reach similar performance figures as OWC states that its drives, no matter their capacity, use all the 16 channels available from the SandForce controller.
In the comparison benchmarks that are available on the product page, the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G is shown to easily surpass the Intel 510-series and Crucial C300 SSDs.
OWC doesn't state if its new series of SSDs uses 25nm NAND Flash or 34nm memory cells.
“We’re absolutely thrilled with the expert proclaimed industry fastest performance of these newest Mercury Extreme Pro drives,” said Larry O’Connor, founder and CEO of Other World Computing.
“Those results are a testament to our philosophy of building products with the highest quality components and design architecture to obtain the highest level data transfer speed and reliability,” concluded the company's rep.
The 120GB version of the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G is priced at $319.99, while the 240GB and the 480GB models are listed at $579.99 and $1,799.99, respectively.
Only the smallest SSD is available right now for purchase (in a limited edition), while the larger capacity models are expected to arrive in May.
If the MSRP of the SSDs changes after a pre-order has been placed, OWC will ship the products at the lowest of the two prices.