We at Amiga On The Lake are "extremely excited" to be an official reseller one of the best SSD on the market today! The OCW SSD's have all the block management, wear leveling and over provisioning built into the SSD hardware of the drive it self. This means that it will operate at the best speed for the life of your SSD and is a perfect fast and long lasting drive for running AmigaOS. Many operating systems have the software to handle that task, the AmigaOS and many others do not. With an OWC SSD you are ready to go from day one.

Every AmigaOne computer at Amiga On The Lake uses an OWC SSD Drive, every one!!!!

This is the 240GB Mercury Electra SSD SATA 3G, good for SATA 2.0 as all new AmigaOne hardware has built in. This will be the best, longest lasting and fastest SSD for your new AmigaOne computer!!!240GB Mercury Electra SSD

• Exceptional, High-Performance optimized for Maximum SATA
  3Gb/s Performance
  Up to 285MB/s data rate.
• Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling
  Prevents write speed degradation commonly experienced by other brands' SSD.
• EXTREME Power Efficiency
  Uses up to 75% less power than hard drives and up to 50% less power than current SSDs* when active.

• One of the fastest Internal SATA 2.5" SSD with available data rates up to 285MB/s.
• SandForce 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 SandForce 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
• Highly secure… all data automatically stored in AES-128 encrypted format.

Some of the drive space in OWC SSDs are allocated for RAISE — which provides real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space.

Example: An OWC Pro SSD that's 240GB in size with 7% over-provisioning is actually a 256GB drive with 7% allocated for data management, and to maintain the drive's high-performance level.

Unlike most SSDs on the market today, the Mercury Pro family uses advanced DuraWrite™ wear-leveling and block management technologies to keep Read/Write performance at peak while others see performance fall. 

 

 

• "Class Leading In Many Real World Tests ... Price Is Lower Than Most On the Market ... the OWC Mercury Is At the Top of Our List."— TweakTown
• "It's the fastest SSD I've tested to date...a serious, enterprise-class SSD..."— Bare Feats
• "This Drive is a Rocket of a SSD... We Have to Give Two Thumbs Up"— Les Tokar - The SSD Review
• "Overwhelming Superiority"— Guillaume Douillet, Hardmac
• "Raw Speed is Impressive"— Tom Nelson, About.com
• "The Best Choice for Combined Speed and Operational Performance."— Olin Coles, BenchmarkReviews.com
• "An entirely new class of product ... astonishing speed, robust performance ... blows away anything from Intel or Crucial ... (sets) a new bar for performance ..."— Lloyd Chambers, diglloyd
• "Once You See Your MBP Going This Fast, No Way You're Ever Going Back"— Victor Cajiao, Typical Mac User
• "Performed Extremely Well...A Significant Step Up From Any Standard Hard Drive"— Marco Chiappetta, Hot Hardware
• "...if you want/need/gotta have a SSD for your Mac, the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE is for you..."— Dennis Sellers, MacNews
• "Best Write Speeds We've Seen"— Nathan Edwards, Maximum PC
• "The Best Choice on the Market Today for Mac Users."— Lloyd Chambers, digLloyd.com
• "Offers Eye-Popping Speed, As Well As The Peace of Mind of Consistent Performance Over Time"— James Galbraith, Macworld
• "One Hell of a Fast Drive with a Killer Price."— Anthony Garland, Hardware Canucks
• "The Most Amazing Upgrade I Ever Did"— John Gruber, Daring Fireball
• "Absolutely Killer Performance"— Jake Mete, Pure Overclock
• "Simply a great drive...a hidden gem of the SSD world...a definite asset to any PC or Mac owner"— Les Tokar, The SSD Review
• "The OWC Mercury Extreme Pro is the fastest SATA II SSD to hit our test bench yet."— Brian Beeler, Storage Review.com
• "Left Me With The Best Impressions... The Most Affordable SandForce Drive... Overwhelming Read/Write Speeds"— Nik Kastrantas, Real World Labs
• "...All Apps Open Faster Than You Can Click and Let Go of Your Mouse... Instant is About the Only Way to Explain It."— Sven Rafferty, Sven On Tech
• "...Definitely Love at First Boot... Applications - Even Large Ones - Open Almost Instantaneously. No Dock-Bouncing. No Hard Drive Noise. No Wait."— Philipp Eierund, The Apple Press
• "Insanely Fast"— Krishna Sadasivam, PC Weenies
• "First Class...Not Only the Fastest, but also One of More Durable and Secure SSDs Available"— Maurizio Natali, Saggiamente
• "The Compelling Advantages to Internal SSD Drives...Speed, Battery Life, and Shock Resistance...A Solid Drive That Performs Well. I Give This Product the Rare 5-Star MacNN Rating"— Marshall Clow, MacNN
• "A Tremendous Difference in the Speed and Feel of your Computer."— J. Glenn Kunzler, MacTrast
• "Power users can rejoice at the speed and performance increase this SSD delivers."— Florence Ion, MacLife
• "The transition to an SSD was definitely worth doing."— Ted Landau, The Mac Observer
• "Cutting a half a day off our data processing is well worth the price of the drive"— Wayne Thorp, Computerized Investing
• "...Amazing Speed Enhancement… Spectacular... I've Got What Feels Like a Brand New Mac"— Gigaom, Dave Greenbaum - Extreme Pro 120GB 
• "...seems like a new computer"— Mike Flaminio, Insanely Great Mac (IGM) Extreme Pro 3G 40GB 
• "...the performance of the SSD kicks my old drive's butt up and down the block... definitely worth considering the upgrade"— Chris Rawson, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Mercury Extreme Pro 3G - 240GB
• "With the Mercury Extreme Pro 3G installed, the MacBook suddenly seemed like a new machine. The speedup is...impressive"— Chris Foresman, Ars Technica - Mercury Extreme Pro 3G 240GB
• "As close to "instant on" as a MacBook Pro of this vintage is going to get... after using the Mercury Extreme Pro... I not only bought the test unit...I also ordered another SSD from OWC"— Brad Moon, Wired.com - Mercury Extreme Pro 3G - 240GB
• "The 960GB Electra 3G is fast... a great choice for high capacity..."— Lloyd Chambers, DigLloyd - Electra 3G 960GB
• "...impressive …the first consumer SSD to be publicly available in it's capacity... kudos...to OWC for…pulling this off, a 1TB SSD..."— Les Tokar, The SSD Review - Electra 3G 960GB
• "...my computing experience has improved dramatically since adding this ... Mercury Electra 3G SSD to my system."— Mike Lawson, TIME Technology for Music Educators - Electra 3G 480GB

 

 

1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac® OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft® Windows® OS.
3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability.
4. Specifications provided by SandForce.

 

Mercury Electra and Mercury Extreme are trademarks of New Concepts Development Corporation, registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple, iMac, Mac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. SandForce DuraClass, SandForce, SandForce RAISE, and DuraWrite are trademarks of LSI Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other marks may be the trademark or registered trademark property of their owners.