Mercury Electra is the clear choice for a performance and capacity boost far beyond your Mac's factory limitations. Available up to 2TB and capable of sustained speeds over 550MB/s, Mercury Electra 6G delivers performance you can count on.

Mercury Electra features premium-quality tier-1 async NAND, and a suite of controller technologies designed to maximize performance and longevity. With exceptional wear-leveling and block management, gold-standard compression and data distribution, best-in-class error correction, intelligent recycling, and requiring no external TRIM support, Mercury Electra 6G SSDs deliver incredible performance and dependability.

OWC SSDs are proudly designed in Austin, TX, and undergo a rigorous 7-stage testing procedure including 100% burn-in resulting in unwavering dependability. We back Mercury Electra drives with a full 3-year warranty and OWC's free USA based lifetime support.

One of the fastest Internal SATA 2.5

SSDs available...and Built in the USA!

Ultra-efficient Block Management

& Wear Leveling for unparalleled reliability & performance.

Controller
SandForce SF2281 processor
Silicon Motion SM2246EN processor (1TB and 2TB models)
JMicron JMS562 raid controller (2TB model only)

NAND Flash Components
Tier-1 asynchronous MLC NAND flash storage

Interface
SATA 3.0, 6Gb/s (backwards compatible to 3.0Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s)

Format
Unformatted

RAID Support
RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN

Available Capacities
60GB, 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 1.0TB, 2.0TB

Performance

60GB - 480GB Mercury Electra

Peak data rate: 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write
Incompressible date rate: 208MB/s read and 235MB/s write

1TB Mercury Electra

Peak data rate: 500MB/s read and 450MB/s write

2TB Mercury Electra MAX 6G

Peak data rate: 490 MB/s read and 471 MB/s write
Incompressible data rate: 466 MB/s read and 447 MB/s write

I/O Per Second (IOPS)
Random 4KB: up to 60,000 IOPS

Protection
7% over provisioning
ECC recovery: up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
Nonrecoverable read errors: less than 1 sector per 1016 bits read

Security
Chip based data encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

TRIM Support
OS dependent

SMART Attributes
Standard

Latency
Read: less than 0.1 ms
Write: less than 0.1 ms

Dimensions
Height: 0.3 in (7 mm)
Width: 2.8 in (70.1 mm)
Length: 3.9 in (100.1 mm)

Weight
2.7 oz (77 grams)