OWC is not a company most PC enthusiast’s have heard of. That’s primarily because they have focussed on MACs. You can buy MAC friendly upgrades such as SSDs as well as USB and thunderbolt accessories. Of course there is no reason they shouldn’t work on PC too. The Mercury Elite Pro is basically a dual SSD unit in Raid 0. We suspect this box might have been the one hidden away in the MSI suit for their USB 3.1 demo:
It connects with USB 3.1 meaning that the speed of two SSDs in Raid 0 will be justified.
Well that is unless you’re not doing sequential reads and writes. If you want to maximize your speed for non sequential data then you’re going to need more drives because the SSD quickly becomes the limiting factor.
For the kind of users who need a ton of data bandwidth, OWC have a 4 bay SSD unit that connects via thunderbolt:
With 4 SSDs – it’s really quite fast:
So the question is – what do you need this much speed for? The answer is really of course that while everything would benefit – the main interest is for 4K video editing. Now of course you could build your own using a raid card and as many ssd’s as you wish, and that’s why perhaps OWC focussed this product on MAC users who are unable to do that. For people willing to build their own rigs, there’s a PCIE card with 4 480GB M.2 SSD drives on it that does the same thing. Pretty cool and pretty damn fast.
