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Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GB

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Release date ≈ Q3 2018.

Average Bench: 78.6% (517th of 1080)

Based on 9 user benchmarks.  Model: OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD
Poor: 67%Average: 78.6% Great: 102%

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Good average bench

The OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GB averaged 21.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 110MB/s
Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed 265MB/s

Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GB is 34.4%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed 147MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 262MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 9 samples)
Rank 51778.6%
Min Avg Max
441 Read 465 508
351 Write 403 425
26.7 Mixed 262 306
289 SusWrite 371 432
84.1% 375 MB/s
Min Avg Max
12.6 4K Read 19.8 28.4
20 4K Write 46.2 84
23.2 4K Mixed 27.7 39.1
90% 31.2 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.9 DQ Read 147 278
143 DQ Write 265 298
1 DQ Mixed 110 201
111% 174 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
655GB free (System drive)
Firmware: N1007C
SusWrite @10s intervals: 219 332 359 408 414 413 MB/s
67.3% Good
Read 405
Write 361
Mixed 272
SusWrite 357
78% 349 MB/s
4K Read 16.2
4K Write 40.3
4K Mixed 24.8
78% 27.1 MB/s
DQ Read 1.1
DQ Write 214
DQ Mixed 1.5
33% 72.1 MB/s

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 76,203,569 SSDs tested

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Gaming
Gaming 8%
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Desktop
Desktop 60%
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Workstation
Workstation 7%
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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 7010

CPU
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples3,976x
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples3,589x
Core i5-3570IntelBench 65%, 104,858 samples1,631x
GPU
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 146,665 samples2,214x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples1,000x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples946x
SSD
Mercury Electra 3G SSD 960GBOWCBench 79%, 9 samples1x
RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples232x
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 53%, 17,809 samples159x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples152x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 97% - Outstanding Total price: $59

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