Electra 2259

[Jackie Bullinger]

The70's bolt japanese models are consistently around 200 bucks. Even set neck golden age model SG's (late 70's to early 80's greco tokai orville etc) wouldn't get more than 8 or 9 hundred out of japan.

An Electra was my first guitar and I still have it. A Les Paul kind of thing that some bonehead painted with krylon. I paid a grand total of 100.00 for the thing. It had been through the ringer over the past 30 years but it still plays.

i think you did well. despite the cost, i think my 2 electras are great. much rounder edges on the FB and the necks are 1/8" narrower at the 12th than my gibby. very comfy. the bling on your SG makes me think it's one of the higher end electras.

Price wise i think what everyone else has said is right on the mark...With that said it is a great bang for your buck guitar especially if it is a made in Japan guitar..There is a reason that the guitar still sounds and plays well 40 years after it was made...

Recently we had the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G in the lab to explore the performance of the latest iteration. Many of you know OWC continuously updates its lineup, and the latest run of 2.5" solutions drive sees both controller changes along with the NAND.

In the latest update, the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G was moved to the Phison S12. Today's drive, the Mercury Electra 6G, has moved to the Silicon Motion 2259, a four-channel controller offering connectivity via SATA 6Gb/s. Performance is rated at 522 MB/s read and 494 MB/s write. The MSRP of the 2TB OWC Mercury Electra 6G comes in at $338.99 with a three-year warranty.

CDM is a staple in performance testing; version 7 has seen some updates in the workloads used for testing. Sequential performance comes in at 549 MB/s read and 477 MB/s write while 4KQ1 reaches 36.3 MB/s read and 97 MB/s write.

While the Mercury Electra 6G is the entry-level solution to OWC's 2.5" portfolio, the build quality is certainly on par with any other 2.5" drive. The increase in capacity to 2TB is a plus, and features like TCG Opal add to the package.

In use, the drive had no issues in our testing and performed up to expectations reaching 549 MB/s read and 477 MB/s write in CDM. In ATTO, we found a rather consistent drive doing 525/460 from 64K through 64M. Moving into PCMark10, the quick system test produced a score of 865 putting it ahead of solutions like the MX500.

Tyler joined the TweakTown team in 2013 and has since reviewed 100s of new techy items. Growing up in a small farm town, tech wasn't around, unless it was in a tractor. At an early age, Tyler's parents brought home their first PC. Tyler was hooked and learned what it meant to format a HDD, spending many nights reinstalling Windows 95. Tyler's love and enthusiast nature always kept his PC nearby. Eager to get deeper into tech, he started reviewing.

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