OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G Showdown

Not a good test. BM writes non-compressed data. Sandforce is not good with this data compared to Samsung and Marvel based controllers. You're going to be frustrated with your numbers. Run AJA and you'll peg 500+ read / 500+ write. But you need to create a blank partition to do it as Apple has screwed up the permissions on the volumes to allow a concise speed test from AJA.

 

this is mine. spec's in signature. had the owc ssd for about a year and had no slowdowns or problems

 

I can't find AJA for MAC anywhere. You have a link?

Found this; http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_KONA_System_Test_v2.app.tar but it doesnt work on my rMBP internal SSD, just any external SSD/HDD I plug in.

 

http://www.aja.com/en/products/software/
You want the "System Test" for Mac.
Here is just the DL link:
http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJASystemTest.zip

 

You mean non-compressible data...

 

Yes. Of course. Police are out in full force it seems

 

Where did you download QB4.0?

 

http://www.speedtools.com/TestSuite.html

 

Hey, isn't that the company in "Office Space"?

 

No, the company in Office Space is called "Initech."

 

You don't need to create a separate partition if you launch Aja as super user.

 

So, get root in a shell and use 'open' command and it'll work? Thanks for info if it does. Can't test right now. On 10.6.8 desktop where everything still works.

 

I opened it in Terminal, navigated into the the Aja system test folder in Applications and ran the executable with 'su ./' in front of the file name. Can't remember the exact file name ATM as not at the Mac to check

 

Navigate to directory and:

sudo AJA\ System\ Test.app/Contents/MacOS/AJA\ System\ Test &

does it. Thanks.
500.1 Read
507.2 Write
70% full OWC 6G Original 311ABBF0 FW