Comments on: OWC Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD Review – Imagine a 1TB SSD in Your Notebook!

By: Avan

Avan — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:31:00 +0000

I have experienced a down clocking of the 6G OWC SSD to 1.5G instead of 3G in my MBP 2009, as it does support up to 3G. Do any of you have such an experience with other brands like crucial M550, etc, given that OWC SSD is almost 50-60 euros more expensive? OWC is the only SSD producer in the market that has kept producing 3G SSDs.

By: Trane Francks

Trane Francks — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:33:00 +0000

In reply to Terri Carr. The OWC is still a rarity when it comes to high capacity in a SATA 2 drive. I've got an Intel Series 320, which I like, but its maximum capacity is 600GB. Intel has a few SATA 3 800GB drives now, but they're outside the consumer range and command a higher price/GB.

By: Terri Carr

Terri Carr — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:07:00 +0000

In reply to alan1476. Where can I get both speed and capacity besides the OWC Mercury Electra? Not ready for a new laptop at this time. I do heavy video and photo editing. Thank you!

By: MAMacUser

MAMacUser — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:24:00 +0000

I bought this drive about 2 months ago because the hard drive failed in my mid 2009 MacBook with 8G — I had upgraded that when I bought it to a 1TB 5400 drive a few years ago. I figured I would give it a try and spend the $1K on the drive rather than a new MacBook. All I can say is it has made my MBP 3-5 times faster in everything and something that I could certainly use for the next 3 years. It was well worth it to me even if it is not the speediest SSD out there. Hope this helps…

By: Dan Valentin

Dan Valentin — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:48:00 +0000

Don’t like the idea of usind SATA II with SSDs.