Description

OWC 240GB Mercury Accelsior™ PCI-e SSD

PCI Express Solid State Drive

No drivers are required making Accelsior a simple
Plug and Play bootable solution.
3 Year Warranty

One Of The Easiest Upgrades You Can Install

If you can install a memory module, you'll find adding this high-performance
card into your desktop/tower machine a breeze. By utilizing the fastest data interface available in a Apple Mac® Pro or PC—the PCIe slot—Mercury Accelsior offers nearly 3x faster performance than a 3Gb/s SSD...and beyond even 6Gb/s SSDs!

Experience supercharged speeds up to 780MB/s read and 648MB/s write and stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. With up to 100K IOP/s, business critical applications are given an instant boost while Accelsior's extreme performance speed dramatically reduces game level-loading, object streaming, and save times for more play time and less waiting.

Mac and PC Bootable with No Driver Setup

Bootable on PCs and the only Mac-bootable/supported PCIe SSD available, Mercury Accelsior delivers near instant startup and app launching. And with a driverless setup, it's truly a Plug and Play, high-performance solution

A More Efficient & Reliable Computing Experience

Massively boosting data transfer rates is only one of the benefits to the Mercury Accelsior. With its SandForce Driven™ SSDs, you'll enjoy a more responsive and productive computing experience, cooler and quieter processing, and greater energy efficiency compared to standard hard drives. Those benefits don't come at the expense of reliability however; SandForce RAISE™ technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability.

User Friendly, Professionally Robust

Simple enough for mainstream business use, yet robust enough for professional multimedia production environments, the OWC Mercury Accelsior is the clear choice for pro audio and video studios producing HD-quality work. This game changing performance upgrade is designed and built in the U.S. from domestic and imported parts and backed by a three-year warranty.

The Mercury SSD line features industry leading SandForce® DuraClass™ Technologies:

DuraWrite™ extends the endurance of your Solid State Drive (SSD).
Intelligent Block Management & Wear Leveling automatically distributes data evenly across the entire SSD.
Intelligent Read Disturb Management spreads the active read/write across the flash components eliminating data corruption caused by constant use.
Intelligent "Recycling" for advanced free space management gradually re-writes data across the SSD over time to ensure data never gets corrupted.
RAISE™ (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) protects the data on your drive similar to having a RAID setup.
Best-in-Class ECC Protection for longest data retention and drive life.

Specifications:

240GB Mercury Accelsior PCI Express SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller

Dual LSI® SandForce SF-2281 series processors with 7% Over Provisioning

NAND

Tier 1/Grade A 2X-nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash

Form Factor

Low Profile PCI Express

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x2

Capacity¹

240GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components - 256GB
16GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity²

223GiB

RAID Support⁵

RAID 0/RAID 1

SMART Attributes

Standard

Native Command Queuing

up to 32 commands

AHCI Compliant

Plug and Play installation, no drivers required

Manufacturer Model Number

OWCSSDPHW2R120

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Format

Unformatted

Physical

Height (max)

120mm (4.74″)

Width (max)

20.7mm (0.81″)

Length (max)

180mm (7.1″)

Weight

85 grams +/- 4 grams
0.18 lbs +/- 3.0 oz

Reliability³

Data Reliability

ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 256-bit & 128-bit AES-compliant

Warranty

3 Year OWC Warranty

Performance⁴

Sustained
Reads (up to)

758MB/s

Sustained
Writes (up to)

743MB/s

Random 4K Read

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write

Up to 100,000 IOPS

Write Latency

less than 0.1ms

Read Latency

less than 0.1ms

Environmental (Operating)

Temperature (°F)

32°F to 158°F

Temperature (°C)

0°C to 70°C

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Temperature (°F)

-67°F to 302°F

Temperature (°C)

-55°C to 150°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

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.
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.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability.
Performance may vary by machine - see compatibility tab for details.
Comes pre-configured as RAID 0. RAID settings configurable to RAID 0 or RAID 1 with PC only. Mac RAID utility coming soon.

Compatible with:

This OWC SSD is compatible with:Learn how to find your Mac's model ID

Mac Pro (Mid 2010 Quad-Core)

(July, 2010)

Model ID: MacPro5,1

2.8GHz, 3.2GHz

Mac Pro (Mid 2010 6-Core)

(July, 2010)

Model ID: MacPro5,1

3.33GHz

Mac Pro (Mid 2010 8-Core)

(July, 2010)

Model ID: MacPro5,1

2.4GHz

Mac Pro (Mid 2010 12-Core)

(July, 2010)

Model ID: MacPro5,1

2.66GHz, 2.93GHz

Mac Pro (Early 2009 Quad-Core)

(March, 2009)

Model ID: MacPro4,1

2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, 3.33GHz

Mac Pro (Early 2009 8-Core)

(March, 2009)

Model ID: MacPro4,1

2.26GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz

Mac Pro (Early 2008)

(January, 2008)

Model ID: MacPro3,1

2.8GHz, 3.0GHz, 3.2GHz

Mac Pro (8-core)

(April, 2007)

Model ID: MacPro2,1

3.0GHz

Mac Pro

(August, 2006)

Model ID: MacPro1,1

2.0GHz, 2.66GHz, 3.0GHz

Xserve (Late 2006)

(August, 2006)

Model ID: Xserve1,1

dual 2.0GHz, dual 2.66GHz, dual 3.0GHz

Xserve (Early 2008)

(January, 2008)

Model ID: Xserve2,1

2.8GHz, dual 2.8GHz, dual 3.0GHz

Xserve Quad-Core (Early 2009)

(April, 2009)

Model ID: Xserve3,1

2.26GHz

Xserve 8-Core (Early 2009)

(April, 2009)

Model ID: Xserve3,1

2.26GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz

PC Desktops

Compatible with Intel / AMD Process based PCs capable with the specifications listed above.

PCIe capable servers

Compatible with PCIe expandable servers with the specifications listed above.

Note about compatibility and throughput:

Compatibility:
- Fully compatible with Mac Pros and PCs offering an available PCIe 2.0 x4 slot or better.
For full throughput on PCs:
- PCIe 2.0 x4 slot or better is required. Use of a PCIe 1.0 x4 slot will reduce performance.
For full throughput on Mac Pros:
- 2010 & 2009: Use either x4 or x16 slot for full throughput.
- 2008: Use x16 slot for full throughput. Use of the PCIe 1.0 x4 slot will reduce performance.
- 2007 & 2006: All slots are compatible, but are PCIe 1.0 slots and will deliver reduced performance.