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Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2015.

Average Bench: 50.6% (886th of 1072)

Based on 177 user benchmarks.  Model: OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD
Poor: 31%Average: 50.6% Great: 64%

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Average average bench

The OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GB averaged 49.4% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 106MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 60.4MB/s

Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GB is 33.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 130MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 178MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 177 samples)
Rank 88650.6%
Min Avg Max
109 Read 178 258
121 Write 177 229
119 Mixed 166 236
83.1 SusWrite 130 205
36.7% 163 MB/s
Min Avg Max
9.79 4K Read 20.6 27.6
20.1 4K Write 60.4 87.7
8.4 4K Mixed 24.1 34.8
93.9% 35 MB/s
Min Avg Max
22.3 DQ Read 135 186
47.5 DQ Write 144 179
9.67 DQ Mixed 106 176
88.9% 128 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
150GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 609ABBF0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 162 126 127 124 151 153 MB/s
52.3% Above average
Read 230
Write 224
Mixed 202
SusWrite 140
45% 199 MB/s
4K Read 20.1
4K Write 45.2
4K Mixed 27
89% 30.8 MB/s
DQ Read 116
DQ Write 184
DQ Mixed 166
121% 155 MB/s
119GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 504ABBF0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 144 170 173 179 164 MB/s
47.2% Average
Read 254
Write 217
Mixed 228
SusWrite 159
48% 215 MB/s
4K Read 14.6
4K Write 28.1
4K Mixed 19.1
62% 20.6 MB/s
DQ Read 195
DQ Write 170
DQ Mixed 105
100% 157 MB/s
32GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 541ABBF0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 92 53 75 61 58 MB/s
27.7% Poor
Read 162
Write 99.1
Mixed 145
SusWrite 73.4
27% 120 MB/s
4K Read 3.6
4K Write 23
4K Mixed 14
36% 13.5 MB/s
DQ Read 90.4
DQ Write 139
DQ Mixed 140
99% 123 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 75,695,811 SSDs tested

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Typical Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GB Builds (Compare 1,471 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 42%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 83%
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Workstation
Workstation 35%
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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel  $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples850x
Core i5-4690KIntel  $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples246x
Core i7-4790Intel  $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples125x
GPU
GTX 970Nvidia  $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples205x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples127x
GTX 960Nvidia  $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples80x
SSD
Mercury Electra 3G SSD 240GBOWCBench 51%, 177 samples1x
RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples46x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 68% - Good Total price: $548

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Intel Core i5-13600K $274Nvidia RTX 4060 $295Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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