OWC / Other World Computing 960GB Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD Card
Model: OWCSSDPHWE2R960
- Guaranteed Brand New Products
- All Products Sold by Manufacturer Authorized Retailers
- 30 Day Return Policy
-
Free Shipping
No Additional Fees
Reliability
Data Reliability | ECC Recovery: up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector |
Security | Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES compliant |
Performance
Form Factor | Low-profile PCIe |
Capacity | Total Capacity: 960GB Total Flash Memory Components: 1024 GB 64 GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction |
Ports | 2 x eSATA 6 Gb/s |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x2 |
Sustained Transfer Rate | Sandy Bridge (PC) Read: 756 MB/sWrite: 673 MB/s Ivy Bridge (PC) Read: 811 MB/sWrite: 646 MB/s Mac Pro Read: 676 MB/sWrite: 687 MB/s |
Native Command Queuing | up to 32 commands |
AHCI Compliant | Plug-and-Play installation, no drivers required |
Sustained Random 4k Read/Write | Up to 100,000 IOPS |
RoHS Compliant | Yes |
Latency | Less than 0.1ms |
Controller | Dual LSI SandForce SF-2281 Series Processors (with 7% over provisioning) |
NAND | Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) High-Performance Sync-NAND Flash |
Packaging Info
Package Weight | 0.7 lb |
Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 9.7 x 7.1 x 3.0" |
General
Acoustics | 0.0 bels |
System Requirements | Windows Vista and higher Server 2008 and higher Mac OS X 10.6 and higher Mac OS X Server 10.6 and higher Ubuntu Linux 9.04 and higher Fedora Linux 14 and higher |
Weight | 3.0 oz / 85 g |
Dimensions | 4.74 x 0.81 x 7.1" / 12 x 2.07 x 18 cm |
Environmental Requirements | Temperature Operating: 32 to 158°F / 0 to 70°C Non-Operating: -67 to 302° F / -55 to 150°C |
Very quick. Used as SSD for OS location, Windows 8.1 disk volume C:, one partition. Settings through own SSD-BIOS by Ctrl+M (Control Marwell :-)). RAID 0-10 no tested by me, but is possible. Bios will show before motherboard's Bios. Do not look for configuration on motherboard Bios.
It's a rockin' fast card that's easy to set up and install, and offers lots of expansion capabilities with it's two eSATA ports where you can hook up external TB hard drives that can take advantage of the cards speed also. Really happy with it.
I have used this drive for about a year and a half. I agree with another comment I read about this product acting "flaky". The drive does weird things after being asleep, so I changed my settings to never let the computer sleep. Not really a great solution.
OWC is one of those companies that likes NOT being one of the biggies...they prefer to concentrate on a good price/performance mix and that's JUST what they did with this little baby. My customer (a professor of management) stuck it in an older MacPro to put some steam back into it..
I used to be a staunch defender of this drive, but I've had a few times now where the drive became corrupt and I had to send one back to OWC to be replaced. Just last week I had get corrupt on me and couldn't even get my Mac Pro to recognize it was there even trying to do repair the drive doing a...
So far, so good. I have this installed in a 2010Mac Pro 5,1. The reviews on here make me nervous. But while I believe their reviews to be honest, I am hoping that there's other users just had bad luck with th The reviews on here make me nervous.
Enjoyed the convenience of online Service - Nice job, Thank you
Very responsive card and a great solution for a SATA controller deprived computer.
Easy to install on my mid-2010 mac pro. I use this as my boot disk and my computer is much faster.
Performs very well.
- 960GB Storage Capacity
- PCIe SSD Drive Card
- PCIe 2.0 x2 Interface
- Up to 756 MB/s Sustained Read Speeds
- Up to 673 MB/s Sustained Write Speeds
- Dual LSI SandForce SF-2281 Processors
- 2 x eSATA Expansion Ports
- Tier 1 MLC High Performance Sync-NAND
- 128-bit AES-Compliant Encryption
- Low Profile PCIe Form Factor