Here comes some fighting words from Other World Computing. It claims that all those other SSD drives are wimps when compared to the new Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD. Here’s what OWC told us…

It’s the fastest and most reliable SSD on the market today and eclipses even the best enterprise class conventional hard drive available.

• Fastest sustained read and write times (over 260MB/s) of any SATA SSD available today.
• DuraClass technology with Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling offers highest endurance, performance, and power efficiency in a SATA SSD.
• SandForce™ Processor maximizes read and write performance to greatly extend the endurance and overall reliability of the drive.
• Up to 100X greater data protection than what the highest rated enterprise class conventional hard disk drive (HDD) provides.
• Best in class error correction (ECC) and RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) technology provides RAID like data protection and reliability without loss of transfer speed due to parity.
• Intelligent “recycling” for advanced free space management
• 8.5x longer use hours than any other name brand SSD
• Highly secure…all data automatically stored in AES-128 encrypted format.

We had some fun taping a “shootout”:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?page=ssd-speed-test-feb-10.html

And some early testers have been having a lot of fun with the SSD as well:
OWC Mercury Extreme RAID-ready Enterprise-class Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-SSD-OWC-Mercury_Extreme.html

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