SSDs are both PC and Mac friendly, which is great news since Apple Computers have made significant progress taking up market share over the past decade. Although Mac computers can be expensive, Other World Computing offers hardware upgrades at prices that compete with the PC market. One such product, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE, is one of the most affordable SandForce-based SSD's available. SandForce-based SSDs are getting tremendous attention from the industry, and products based on the SF-1222 controller have demonstrated exceptional operational performance and speed. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the 100GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro-RE, model SSDMXRE100, against some of the fastest storage solutions on the market.
Other World Computing (OWC)'s Mercury Extreme Pro RE Solid State Drive (SSD) and the SSD Review Overclocking Team have set the HWBot Overclocking World Record for a Quad Core System. The SSD Review Team, headed by Paul Alcorn, set the new world record with a PCMark Vantage first submission high score of 34311 marks, beating out the former world record of 33271 points.
