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Mercury Electra 6G SSD 480GB

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Release date ≈ Q1 2015.

Average Bench: 55% (854th of 1072)

Based on 95 user benchmarks.  Model: OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD
Poor: 44%Average: 55% Great: 66%

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Average average bench

The OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD 480GB averaged 44.9% 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 90.1MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 23.6MB/s

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD 480GB is 22.2%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD 480GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 19.2MB/s
Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed 81.5MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 95 samples)
Rank 85455%
Min Avg Max
277 Read 377 502
122 Write 241 309
186 Mixed 274 341
102 SusWrite 200 255
61% 273 MB/s
Min Avg Max
14 4K Read 23.6 32.3
12.8 4K Write 19.2 24.1
10.3 4K Mixed 19.7 27
71.2% 20.8 MB/s
Min Avg Max
24.5 DQ Read 169 227
20.2 DQ Write 81.5 107
14.2 DQ Mixed 90.1 134
76.3% 114 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 75,710,945 SSDs tested

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Gaming 65%
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Desktop 87%
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Workstation 54%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte B365M DS3H - $146

CPU
Core i5-9400FIntel  $102Bench 85%, 299,482 samples2,527x
Core i3-9100FIntel  $88Bench 80%, 34,310 samples1,039x
Core i5-9600KIntel  $155Bench 93%, 321,194 samples976x
GPU
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia  $233Bench 71%, 428,800 samples618x
GTX 1650Nvidia  $155Bench 43%, 259,091 samples600x
RTX 2060Nvidia  $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples499x
SSD
Mercury Electra 6G SSD 480GBOWCBench 55%, 95 samples1x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples399x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX  $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples372x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples179x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 93% - Outstanding Total price: $525

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273Nvidia RTX 4060 $300Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177Nvidia RTX 4070 $539Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
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