The OWC / Other World Computing 120GB Mercury Electra 6G Solid State Drive is a 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm that is equipped with a SandForce 2281 Processor and DuraClass technology, and offers sustained reads up to 556 MB/s and writes up to 523 MB/s.
In addition to RAISE (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) technology, the Solid State Drive comes with ECC protection that protects the data on your hard drive and retains it for a long time on the hard drive. The Mercury Electra Solid State Drive features intelligent block management, while the wear leveling system evenly distributes the data over the hard drive. An intelligent read disturb management spreads active read/write, eliminating data corruption.
Advanced intelligent recycling ensures space management by re-writing the data over the SSD, and Durawrite extends the quality of the hard drive. Compatible with Mac and Windows, the Mercury Solid State Drive has no moving parts and a highly rugged storage solution offers faster system response. It supports 120 GB useable capacity with a total flash memory of 128GB, additionally 8 GB space is allocated for real time data redundancy and error correction.
| Controller | SandForce 2281 Series Processor with 7% over provisioning |
| Agency Approval | Standard 9.5 mm 2.5" |
| Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s, 3 Gb/s & 1.5 Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 compliant |
| Capacity | 120 GB useable capacityTotal flash memory components - 128 GB8 GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction |
| Formatted Capacity | 111GiB |
| NAND | Asynchronous Tier 1/Grade A 2X-nm NAND flash storage |
| SMART attributes | Standard |
| RAID Support | Qualified for single drive and multiple drive production workstation RAID 1/SPAN usage |
| RoHS Compliant | Yes |
| Format | Unformatted |
| Native Command Queuing | Up to 32 commands |
| Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Data Reliability | ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector |
| Security | Chip based data encryption: 256-bit & 128-bit AES-complian |
| TRIM Support | OS dependent |
| Nonrecoverable Read Errors | Less than 1 sector per 10^16 bits read |
| Performance | |
|---|---|
| Sustained Reads 6Gb/s | 556 MB/s |
| Sustained Writes 6Gb/s | 523 MB/s |
| Sustained Reads 3Gb/s | 284 MB/s |
| Sustained Writes 3Gb/s | 268 MB/s |
| Read Incompressible Data Rate | 208 MB/s |
| Write Incompressible Data Rate | 235 MB/s |
| Random 4K Read | Up to 60,000 IOPS |
| Random 4K Write | Up to 60,000 IOPS |
| Read Latency | less than 0.1 ms |
| Write Latency | less than 0.1 ms |
| Environmental | |
|---|---|
| Temperature | 32 - 158° F / 0 - 70° C (operating temperature)-67 to 302° F / -55 to 150°C (non operating temperature) |
| Acoustics | |
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| Idle | 0.0 bels (typical) |
| Seek | 0.0 bels (typical) |
| Physical | |
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| Height | 0.372" / 9.45 mm (maximum) |
| Width | 2.758" / 70.06 mm (maximum) |
| Length | 3.941" / 100.12 mm (maximum) |
| Weight | 0.176 lb +/- 2.82 oz (80 grams +/- 2 grams) |