OWC Electra 6g Drive Question

[teerexx52]

I just purchased and installed an OWC 6G Electra SSD in my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" 2.3. I was surprised when I did a speed test that it is not as fast as my 11" 2011 MacBook Air. I am getting write speed of 138.4MB/s and read at 201 MB/s. If anyone has any experience with this drive and can offer any information I would appreciate it. Thanks

 

[awer25]

Supposedly it's supposed to get speeds of 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write. If you're getting that much less then something is wrong.

 

[Sam2lucky13]

curious....what speed test did you use?

 

[teerexx52]

curious....what speed test did you use?

DiskSpeedTest

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Supposedly it's supposed to get speeds of 556MB/s read and 523MB/s write. If you're getting that much less then something is wrong.

Yes, but I had trouble from the beginning. I tried to use the disk utility to clone the drives from one to another and I got errors. One error was that the new ssd did not have enough space on it. So, I used super duper and did it that way. I used a ThermalLake usb drive caddy to connect to the MacBook Pro. So, it did its thing and all seemed well until I ran the test on it. I chatted with OWC tech and they wanted me todo a clean install of lion on it which I am doing as I write this. They said using Super Duper and other programs has resulted in this kind of problem. So, anyways, they have issued an RMA. Assuming I have to ship this one back first I expect this will take two weeks or more. Something told me to leave well enough alone with my stock HD but would I listen?????

 

[Sam2lucky13]

that's not normal...even with the update to dst that knocked the write numbers back.

 

[igouroum]

For My Corsair force 3 120gb in my 2010 macbook pro 13", the speeds dropped from 260/210 read/writes to 160/110... WTF??
Same applies for xbench. My Disk score is only 260, but I've seen lesser SSDs scoring higher than 300.. wtf?

 

[teerexx52]

They are overnighting me a new drive. I have a question if anyone here might know. Can I install the new SSD in my MacBook Pro, then hold command+R and boot up that way and then reinstall Lion from the App Store? Thanks. Long day trying to get this done.