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High-Performance Storage for Notebook and Desktop Computers.
When the first Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD was launched nearly a decade ago, it was built to be the fastest, most reliable, and longest enduring 2.5-inch SATA Solid State Drive on the market. The evolution of OWC’s premier 2.5-inch SATA SSD continues that legacy with up to 5x faster performance over the duration of its capacity versus other drives. If you have a Mac or PC with a 6G SATA drive bay, the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD is the fastest 2.5-inch SSD available today.
Starts Fast, Stays Fast
Even though many SSDs use low cost, less robust components in their design, they can still offer enticing short term bust speeds which are perfectly suitable for light duty uses. However, these drives are not designed to deliver consistent sustained speeds over their capacity rating, which results in a dramatic slowdown to even hard drive speeds under demanding use.
The fifth generation of Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD was built to start fast and stay fast. Its development began with using the best flash storage components and technology available. Next, after being nearly completely filled to capacity with data, it had to deliver the same high speed as if it were empty. This drive doesn’t flinch at any time or capacity level and drop read/write speeds like other drives do…it easily handles the most extreme, mission-critical uses you can throw at it.
Get Your Money’s Worth
When a low-priced “commodity” built SSD’s performance drops off significantly, many users replace the drive far before all its storage capacity is used to regain that “like new” speed feeling. The Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD was engineered to keep you working full speed ahead over the duration of the drive to deliver an overall lower cost of ownership.
Workhorse Revitalizer
With your investment in apps and time getting that beloved workhorse Mac or PC configured just the way you like; it makes sense to get all the use you can out of the machine before retiring it. By revitalizing your Mac or PC with a Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD, you’ll transform your machine with like-new performance with the best performance upgrade available. From faster boots and application launch times to greatly improved system responsiveness, you’ll love using your “new” computer for a fraction of the cost of buying the latest model.
Go Big or Go Home
Want to use the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD in a computer, dock, camera, or external storage enclosure with a 9.5mm height drive bay? Unlike other brands 7mm SSDs that either doesn’t include an adapter or have an edge spacer with a limited adhesive surface, the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD comes with a full-sized spacer for 100% secure and compatible use.
The Mercury Extreme SSD line features:
- Game Changer: the best performance upgrade for Macs and PCs with SATA drive bay
- No Slow Downs: maintains read/write speeds exceeding 500MB/s over entire drive capacity
- Saves money: use drive until full versus replacing slowed down drive
- A/V Ready: use with Blackmagic, Sound Devices, Atomos devices
- Universal Fit: includes full-sized 7mm-9.5mm profile spacer for 100% secure and compatible use
What is in the box
- (1) OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G Solid-State Drive
- 5-Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Capacity: 240GB/ 480GB/ 1TB/ 2TB/ 4TB
- Drive Format: Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here: Mac, Windows PC)
- Controller: Phison PS3112-S12 with 7% over-provisioning
- NAND Flash Components: Micron Synchronous Triple-Level Cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash
- S.M.A.R.T. Attributes: Standard attributes supported
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ): Up to 32 simultaneous commands
- RAID Support: Yes
- Form Factor: 2.5-inch 7mm
- Drive Interface: SATA 6.0 Gb/s
- Random 4K Read: Up to 100,000 IOPS
- Random 4K Write: Up to 90,000 IOPS
- Sequential Read (Max): Up to 550 MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max): Up to 530 MB/s
- Nonrecoverable Read Errors: 1 per 10^16 bits read
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures): 1,600,000 hours
- Wear Leveling: Supported
- TRIM Support: OS Dependent
- Security: TCG Opal
- Endurance: 370TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 145 GB per day for 7 years
- Mac OS Compatibility: Yes
- PC OS Compatibility: Yes
- Other Requirements: Requires a Mac, PC, or drive enclosure with an available SATA drive bay and connection. SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) required for best performance.
- Write Mode (Max): Up to 2 Watts
- Seek Mode (Max): Up to 2.1 Watts
- Idle Mode (Max): Up to 0.1 Watts
- DEVSLP / DevSleep: Up to 5mW
- Dimensions: Height: 0.7 cm (0.3 in), Length: 10.0 cm (3.9 in), Width: 7.0 cm (2.8 in)
- Weight: 77.0 g (0.17 lbs)
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
- Country of Origin: Taiwan
- TAA Compliance: Yes
- Ambient Temperature: Operating: 32°F to 158°F (0°C to 70°C), Non-Operating: -40°F to 185°F (-40°C to 85°C)
- Altitude: Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft), Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
- Humidity: Operating: 0% to 90% non-condensing, Non-Operating: 0% to 93% non-condensing
- Shock: Non-Operating: 1500 G max
- Idle (Typical): 0.0 bels
- Seek (Typical): 0.0 bels
- Applications: Select Macs And PCs, Select External Enclosures, Select PCIe Host Cards, Productivity Apps, Creative Apps, Backups, Gaming
- Use of a 2.5-inch SSD in a 3.5-inch drive bay requires an adapter bracket such as the NewerTech AdaptaDrive.
- Use of any SSD in an external enclosure is dependent on the power available from the enclosure. OWC Mercury Electra 6G and Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs are engineered for use in any OWC Enclosure that supports 2.5-inch SSDs.
- Special Note: For specific 2009 iMacs, 2008-2010 MacBooks, 2008-2009 MacBook Pros, and 2009 Mac mini models, we highly recommend using a SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) SSD, such as the OWC Mercury Electra 3G.
- Recommended Models:
- iMac Models: iMac9,1, iMac10,1, iMac11,1
- MacBook Models: MacBook5,1, MacBook5,2, MacBook6,1, MacBook7,1
- MacBook Pro Models: MacBookPro5,1, MacBookPro5,2, MacBookPro5,3, MacBookPro5,4, MacBookPro5,5
- Mac mini Models: Macmini3,1, Macmini4,1
- Performance Note: While a 6G SSD functions in these models, it will only operate at SATA Revision 1.0 (1.5Gb/s, 150MB/s) speeds, rather than the full SATA Revision 2.0 (3.0Gb/s, 300MB/s) speed these computers can support. The OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD is the recommended upgrade to achieve optimal performance.
- Compatibility: The OWC SSD Mercury Electra 6G Model is compatible with almost any Mac or PC model with a Serial ATA connection (SATA, SATA 2.0, or SATA 3.0). Compatible MacBook Pro models include:
- MacBook Pro
- 2012 Models:
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, June 2012) Model ID: MacBookPro9,1 | 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.7GHz
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, June 2012) Model ID: MacBookPro9,2 | 2.5GHz, 2.9GHz
- 2011 Models:
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, October 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,3 | 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, October 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,2 | 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, October 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,1 | 2.4GHz, 2.8GHz
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, February 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,3 | 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, February 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,2 | 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, February 2011) Model ID: MacBookPro8,1 | 2.3GHz, 2.7GHz
- 2010 Models:
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, April 2010) Model ID: MacBookPro6,1 | 2.53GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, April 2010) Model ID: MacBookPro6,2 | 2.4GHz, 2.53GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, April 2010) Model ID: MacBookPro7,1 | 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz
- 2008-2009 Models:
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2008) Model ID: MacBookPro4,1 | 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) Model ID: MacBookPro4,1 | 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008) Model ID: MacBookPro4,1 | 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz
- 2007 Models:
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid/Late 2007) Model ID: MacBookPro3,1 | 2.4GHz, 2.6GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007) Model ID: MacBookPro3,1 | 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.6GHz
- 2006 Models:
- MacBook Pro (17-inch Core 2 Duo, October 2006) Model ID: MacBookPro2,1 | 2.33GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch Core 2 Duo, October 2006) Model ID: MacBookPro2,2 | 2.16GHz, 2.33GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy, May 2006) Model ID: MacBookPro1,1 | 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz
- MacBook Pro (17-inch, April 2006) Model ID: MacBookPro1,2 | 2.16GHz
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, January 2006) Model ID: MacBookPro1,1 | 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz
- MacBook Models:
- 2008 Models:
- MacBook (Late 2008, October) Model ID: MacBook4,1 | 2.1GHz
- MacBook (Early 2008, February) Model ID: MacBook4,1 | 2.1GHz, 2.4GHz
- 2007 Models:
- MacBook (Late 2007, November) Model ID: MacBook3,1 | 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz
- MacBook (Mid 2007, May) Model ID: MacBook2,1 | 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz
- 2006 Models:
- MacBook (Late 2006, November) Model ID: MacBook2,1 | 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz
- MacBook (May 2006) Model ID: MacBook1,1 | 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz
- Mac mini Models:
- 2014 Model:
- Mac mini (Late 2014, October) Model ID: Macmini7,1 | 1.4GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz
- 2012 Models:
- Mac mini (Late 2012, October) Model ID: Macmini6,1 & Macmini6,2 | 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.6GHz
- Mac mini (Late 2012 Server, October) Model ID: Macmini6,2 | 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz
- 2011 Models:
- Mac mini (Mid 2011, July) Model ID: Macmini5,1 & Macmini5,2 | 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.7GHz
- Mac mini (Mid 2011 Server, July) Model ID: Macmini5,3 | 2.0GHz
- 2010 Models:
- Mac mini (Mid 2010, June) Model ID: Macmini4,1 | 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz
- Mac mini (Mid 2010 Server, June) Model ID: Macmini4,1 | 2.66GHz
- 2007 Model:
- Mac mini (Mid 2007, August) Model ID: Macmini2,1 | 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz
- iMac Models:
- 2013 Models:
- iMac (27-inch Late 2013, September) Model ID: iMac14,2 | 3.2GHz i5, 3.4GHz i5, 3.5GHz i7
- iMac (21.5-inch Late 2013, September) Model ID: iMac14,1; iMac14,3 | 2.7GHz i5, 2.9GHz i5, 3.1GHz i7
- 2012 Models:
- iMac (27-inch Late 2012, November) Model ID: iMac13,2 | 2.9GHz i5, 3.2GHz i5, 3.4GHz i7
- iMac (21.5-inch Late 2012, November) Model ID: iMac13,1 | 2.7GHz i5, 2.9GHz i5, 3.1GHz i7
- 2011 Models:
- iMac (27-inch Mid 2011, May) Model ID: iMac12,2 | 2.7GHz i5, 3.1GHz i5, 3.4GHz i7
- iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011, May) Model ID: iMac12,1 | 2.5GHz i5, 2.7GHz i5, 2.8GHz i7
- 2010 Models:
- iMac (27-inch Mid 2010, July) Model ID: iMac11,3 | 2.8GHz, 2.93GHz, 3.2GHz, 3.6GHz
- iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010, July) Model ID: iMac11,2 | 3.06GHz, 3.2GHz, 3.6GHz
- iMac (27-inch Mid 2010, July) Model ID: iMac11,3 | 2.8GHz i5, 2.93GHz i5, 3.6GHz i7
- iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010, July) Model ID: iMac11,2 | 3.6GHz i5
- iMac 27-Inch Models (Late 2013 - 2019):
- iMac19,1 - A2115 - EMC 3194
- iMac18,3 - A1419 - EMC 3070
- iMac17,1 - A1419 - EMC 2834
- iMac15,1 - A1419 - EMC 2806
- iMac 21.5-Inch Models (Late 2013 - Current):
- iMac19,2 - A2116 - EMC 3195
- iMac18,2 - A1418 - EMC 3069
- iMac18,1 - A1418 - EMC 3068
- iMac16,2 - A1418 - EMC 2833
- iMac16,2 - A1418 - EMC 2889
- iMac16,1 - A1418 - EMC 2889
- iMac14,4 - A1418 - EMC 2805
- Mac Pro Models:
- 2010-2012 Models:
- Mac Pro 12-Core (Mid 2010-2012, July 2010 / June 2012) Model ID: MacPro5,1 | 2.40GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, 3.06GHz
- Mac Pro 8-Core (Mid 2010, July) Model ID: MacPro5,1 | 2.4GHz
- Mac Pro 6-Core (Mid 2010-2012, July 2010 / June 2012) Model ID: MacPro5,1 | 3.33GHz
- Mac Pro (Mid 2010 Quad-Core, July) Model ID: MacPro5,1 | 2.8GHz, 3.2GHz, 3.33GHz
- 2009 Models:
- Mac Pro (Early 2009 8-Core, March) Model ID: MacPro4,1 | 2.26GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz
- Mac Pro (Early 2009 Quad-Core, March) Model ID: MacPro4,1 | 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, 3.33GHz
- 2008 Model:
- Mac Pro (Early 2008, January) Model ID: MacPro3,1 | 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz, 3.2GHz
- 2007 Model:
- Mac Pro (8-core, April) Model ID: MacPro2,1 | 3.0GHz