Posted on Friday, June 10 2011 @ 23:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
OWC announced price cuts for its SandForce-based Mercury Pro solid state disks for the 2008/2009 MacBook Air, PowerBook, and iBook. They're branded towards Mac users but are also compatible with regular desktop PCs, laptops and netbooks.
Other World Computing (OWC®) http://www.macsales.com, a leading zero emissions Mac® and PC technology company, today announced it has lowered it prices by up to $50 on three of its OWC Mercury Pro SSDs: The Mercury Aura™ Pro MBA for 2008/2009 MacBook® Air, the Mercury Legacy™ Pro for all notebooks that use a 2.5" IDE/ATA drive, and the Mercury Aura Pro 1.8" for netbooks, subnotebooks, and special applications that utilize a 1.8" SATA drive.
Pricing For SandForce®-Based OWC Mercury SSDs:
Mercury Aura Pro MBA for 2008/2009 MacBook Air
Up to 41x faster than factory hard drive models & over 3x faster than factory SSD models
Up to 4x more capacity than original factory SSD option
Up to 100x higher reliability than hard drives
Now available 40GB - $149.99
60GB was $199.99, now $179.99
120GB was $299.99, now $279.99
240GB was $579.99, now $529.99
For more information on the OWC Mercury Aura Pro MBA, visit:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_MBA
Mercury Legacy Pro for Mac and PC notebooks that use a 2.5" IDE/ATA drive
Up to 41x faster than factory hard drives
Up to 100x higher reliability than hard drives
Now available 40GB - $149.99
60GB was $199.99, now $179.99
120GB was $299.99, now $279.99
240GB was $579.99, now $529.99
For more information on the OWC Mercury Legacy Pro, visit:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Legacy_Pro
Mercury Aura Pro 1.8" For special applications, netbooks & subnotebooks that utilize a 1.8" drive
Up to 275MB/s data rates
Up to 16x more capacity than original factory hard drive option
Up to 100x higher reliability than hard drives
Now available 40GB - $119.99
60GB was $179.99, now $149.99
120GB was $279.99, now $259.99
240GB was $549.99, now $499.99
For more information on the OWC Mercury Aura Pro 1.8", visit:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_1.8
The Most Comprehensive SSD Line For Macs And PCs
As the most comprehensive U.S. manufacturer of industry leading SandForce processor based SSDs available today, OWC offers additional Mercury brand name SSDs for nearly every Mac and PC produced over the past decade in capacities from 40GB to 480GB starting from $99.97:
OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express
The first and only high performance SandForce processor based SSD for 2010 Apple MacBook Air models.
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G SSD
High performance 2.5" SATA Revision 2.0 SSD for demanding portable and desktop tower use.
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G RE SSD
RAID-Ready Enhanced performance with 28% over-provisioning for data centers, network operation centers, and dedicated RAID installations. Used to set overclocking world record: http://eshop.macsales.com/NewsRoom/Framework.cfm?page=PR/ssdre_032411.html
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD
Ultra high performance 2.5" SATA Revision 3.0 SSD for prosumers and A/V, photography, and graphic production professionals.
