Description
The OWC Mercury Electra 500BG 6G SATA SSD delivers the latest flash NAND and controller technology, utilizing 3D NAND + SLC caching for long-lasting, power-efficient performance. They offer a powerful combination of performance and reliability for demanding everyday computer users. This SSD delivers fast, reliable performance thanks to its 6G SATA connection. It works as a hard drive upgrade internally and in bus-powered or self-powered external enclosures (any Mac, PC, or enclosure that supports 2.5″ SATA drives, must support 7mm drive height). OWC SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers near-instantaneous system response. With real-world speeds over 500MB/s, the OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD line delivers unbeatable performance.
FEATURES:
- The perfect solution for everyday computing
- Latest flash NAND and controller technology
- Global wear leveling data distribution
- Static data refresh technology for free space management
- Hardware ECC (error correction)
- S.M.A.R.T and TRIM command support
- Standby power benefits to extend battery life for laptop road warriors
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Capacity:
- 500GB Useable Capacity
- Total Flash Memory Components: 512GB
- 12GB Allocated to real-time data redundancy and error correction
- Formatted Capacity: 466GiB
- 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
- Storage 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 540 MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max): Up to 500 MB/s
- Nonrecoverable Read Errors: 1 per 1015 bits read
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures): 1,500,000 hours
- Wear Leveling: Supported
- TRIM Support: OS Dependent
- Security:
- TCG Opal
- Secure Erase (SE): Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant
- Endurance: 340TB total bytes written (TBW), equal to 187 GB per day for 5 years
- Mac OS Compatibility: Yes
- PC OS Compatibility: Yes
- Other Requirements: Host or device with a built-in SATA connection.
- Write Mode (Max): Up to 2.055 Watts
- Seek Mode (Max): Up to 1.48 Watts
- Idle Mode (Max): Up to 0.07 Watts
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.7 cm
- Product Weight: 55g
WHAT’S IN THE BOX:
- OWC Mercury Electra 500BG 6G SATA SSD – Black x1
