OWC 480GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 7mm Solid State Drive

When only the fastest and most reliable Solid State Drive on the market today will suffice for your data storage and backup, look no further than the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD. The Mercury SSD line features: 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. This internal 2.5" SATA SSD uses the latest SandForce 2281 Processor and DuraClass technology to deliver the highest transfer speed, endurance, and performance available today. OWC SSDs allocate some of the drive capacity for RAISE, to provide real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space. Includes 7 mm to 9.5 mm Adapter / Spacer, Attach this adapter to the top of any 7mm, 2.5-inch drive for installations that require a 9.5mm drive height for proper use. Controller: Silicon Motion SM2246EN Series with 7% Over Provisioning firmware set; NAND: Tier 1 3D NAND; Form Factor: Standard 7mm 2.5"; Interface: SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 Compliant; Capacity: 480GB useable capacity, Total Flash Memory Components - 512GB, 32GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction; Sustained Reads 6Gb/s (up to): 535MB/s; Sustained Writes 6Gb/s (up to): 435MB/s; Read Incompressible Data Rate (up to) : 520MB/s; Write Incompressible Data Rate (up to): 431MB/s