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Experience with OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD

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steffi

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Jun 7, 2003
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Not good so far.

1. Couldn't clone in Voyager Q. drive keeps unmounting as soon as the clone
starts.

2. Was able to clone in a cheap Rocketfish USB enclosure

3. Put drive into i7 MBP and I couldn't get past the languages screen in the Install DVD or my own SD card. Just wouldn't let me check the right arrow button.

4. Put back my X-25M 160. Machine boots fine. Tried partitioning the SSD in the Voyager Q and it fails every time.

OWC is sending me a new drive to try next week and I'll report back how that turns out.
 
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Beninho

macrumors newbie
Jun 8, 2010
6
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Same problem here.

Exactly the same.

With cheap usb enclosure i could partition it. And send small files to the drive. But when I tried to send larga (over 100 mb) to the drive it just unmounted.

Same with Snow leoard install. I could not format and copie snow leopard to the drive.

Drive shipped back to OWC, I hope they send me a fully tested drive back.. Because is live in the netherlands so shipping it not cheap ;)
 
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Thunder82

macrumors 6502
Jul 16, 2008
442
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Chicago, IL
Seems to be a common thing with the sandforce controlled drives. Maybe just install all of your apps and pull your data over manually?
 
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spcedog

macrumors newbie
Jun 7, 2010
10
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Mercury Extreme Pro 120 GB was okay

I just put in the Extreme Pro 120 GB (not RE) version. I was able to partition and install off the system restore disks with no problem at all. I can't comment on the cloning, but everything seems to be going alright so far...it's so fast I love it! :D
 
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steffi

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Jun 7, 2003
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I am receiving another drive from them today.

If I ran Integrity tool from Speed Utilities I observe that it errors soon after starting the test. So I expect not to see that with the drive i'm receiving today.

Cloning with the new drive now and I think we may have a winner

So far completely different experience from the last drive.

Beninho said:
Same problem here.

Exactly the same.

With cheap usb enclosure i could partition it. And send small files to the drive. But when I tried to send larga (over 100 mb) to the drive it just unmounted.

Same with Snow leoard install. I could not format and copie snow leopard to the drive.

Drive shipped back to OWC, I hope they send me a fully tested drive back.. Because is live in the netherlands so shipping it not cheap ;)
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Beninho

macrumors newbie
Jun 8, 2010
6
2
spcedog said:
I just put in the Extreme Pro 120 GB (not RE) version. I was able to partition and install off the system restore disks with no problem at all. I can't comment on the cloning, but everything seems to be going alright so far...it's so fast I love it! :D
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That is the one I bought too, I'am kind of jealous that it does work for you ;)

I'll let you guys no when the owc sends me the new drive. I'll tell how the install went off.
 
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steffi

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jun 7, 2003
862
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Well this drive seems to be working more ways than the previous one. However bad things happen when I have another device in my firewire chain. For whatever reason I do have issues when my Time Machine drive (G-Technology drive) is in my chain.

Beninho said:
That is the one I bought too, I'am kind of jealous that it does work for you ;)

I'll let you guys no when the owc sends me the new drive. I'll tell how the install went off.
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Beninho

macrumors newbie
Jun 8, 2010
6
2
Well Guys, i recieved the new drive.

Lame! It has exactly the same issues as the previous drive :mad:

Terrible, they did not even test it before the shipped a new one... then it wouldn't have any problems.. :eek:)

1. I'am able to parition it.
2. I'am able to mount it. (even with usb)
3. I'am not able to install snow leopard to it.
4. When mounted with usb i cannot send files to drive. Will unmount.

Support from owc is terrible at the moment. 1 email/24h. Without constructive answers.

--not happy now :confused: --
 
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doctortee

macrumors newbie
Aug 15, 2010
1
0
Munich, Germany
hi all,

do the problems with the owc mercury extreme still exist or could they be solved meanwhile? i'm looking for a good alternative to the x25-m for my new mbp 13 mid-2010...

thanks for your replies,
torsten
 
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Jaxdialation

macrumors regular
Mar 24, 2010
115
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I don't get it, I had -no- problem cloning my hard drive onto mine. Beginners luck? Never happens to me :)
 
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steffi

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Jun 7, 2003
862
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OWC weren't very good and getting back to me as to why the earlier drive had so many problems but it was around the time of a firmware upgrade.

Jaxdialation said:
I don't get it, I had -no- problem cloning my hard drive onto mine. Beginners luck? Never happens to me :)
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OneCent

macrumors newbie
Aug 27, 2010
1
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i just installed a OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 240 without any Problems. I have used carbon copy to clone the disk and thats all... no problems until now.
 
Ice Dragon

Ice Dragon

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Jun 16, 2009
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No company is perfect which is why the drives have a three year warranty (or five year for the RE). Yes I agree it is very frustrating to get a defective drive although as long as you are given a replacement that does work at no cost, then it reflects well on OWC in my view, no?
 
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