OWC today announced a new high performance SandForce-powered SSD, the Mercury Extreme Pro 40GB with very affordable price at $99.99. The 2.5-inch drive boasts the SF-1200 chip, has a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, has maximum read and write speeds of 285 MB/s and 275 MB/s and a MTTF (mean time to failure) of 2 million hours.

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro features SandForce DuraClass technology with ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling for long term durability, it also best in class error correction (ECC) and SandForce RAISE redundancy with 7% over provisioning.