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Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB

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Release date ≈ Q1 2016.

Average Bench: 71.5% (641st of 1072)

Based on 41 user benchmarks.  Model: OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD
Poor: 52%Average: 71.5% Great: 83%

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Good average bench

The OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB averaged 28.5% 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 130MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 564MB/s

Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB is 31.9%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 16.6MB/s
Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed 116MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 41 samples)
Rank 64171.5%
Min Avg Max
298 Read 564 739
215 Write 396 518
150 Mixed 386 564
163 SusWrite 383 476
96.8% 432 MB/s
Min Avg Max
3.1 4K Read 19.4 30.1
2.9 4K Write 16.6 24.4
8.33 4K Mixed 17.5 24.5
60.6% 17.8 MB/s
Min Avg Max
80.3 DQ Read 202 248
76.4 DQ Write 116 147
9.05 DQ Mixed 130 176
104% 149 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
746GB free
Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 499 505 487 447 455 461 MB/s
87.2% Excellent
Read 611
Write 471
Mixed 477
SusWrite 476
114% 509 MB/s
4K Read 26.4
4K Write 20.8
4K Mixed 23.6
81% 23.6 MB/s
DQ Read 248
DQ Write 140
DQ Mixed 165
131% 184 MB/s
186GB free
Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 377 387 376 378 369 410 MB/s
74.3% Very good
Read 541
Write 373
Mixed 338
SusWrite 383
91% 409 MB/s
4K Read 21.1
4K Write 18.5
4K Mixed 20.2
68% 19.9 MB/s
DQ Read 240
DQ Write 132
DQ Mixed 162
127% 178 MB/s
568GB free
Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 409 398 435 427 439 434 MB/s
70.6% Very good
Read 474
Write 396
Mixed 364
SusWrite 424
93% 414 MB/s
4K Read 18.7
4K Write 15.6
4K Mixed 18.2
60% 17.5 MB/s
DQ Read 213
DQ Write 110
DQ Mixed 153
116% 158 MB/s
837GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 218 293 317 308 294 295 MB/s
67.7% Good
Read 589
Write 394
Mixed 303
SusWrite 288
88% 393 MB/s
4K Read 20.1
4K Write 17.9
4K Mixed 18.7
64% 18.9 MB/s
DQ Read 189
DQ Write 116
DQ Mixed 140
108% 148 MB/s
547GB free
Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s
SusWrite @10s intervals: 300 304 300 302 302 311 MB/s
51.5% Above average
Read 298
Write 283
Mixed 270
SusWrite 303
65% 289 MB/s
4K Read 13.7
4K Write 11.6
4K Mixed 12.7
43% 12.7 MB/s
DQ Read 232
DQ Write 116
DQ Mixed 147
116% 165 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 75,789,989 SSDs tested

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Typical Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GB Builds (Compare 239 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 8%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 67%
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Workstation
Workstation 8%
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Motherboard: Asrock Z87M Extreme4 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel  $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples56x
Core i7-4790KIntel  $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples41x
Core i5-4670KIntel  $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples39x
GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel  $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples21x
RX 580AMD  $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples20x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples19x
SSD
Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD 960GBOWCBench 71%, 41 samples1x
RAM
1600 CL9 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 7,092 samples20x
CT102464BD160B.M16 2x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 4,109 samples8x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples5x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 88% - Excellent Total price: $335

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