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OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini Single Drive “Quad Interface” External Storage Solution Now Features Next Generation Oxford 944SE Chipset

Monday, June 13th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing today announced its Mercury Elite Pro mini portable external storage solution now features the next generation Oxford 944SE bridge chipset from PLX Technology for faster data throughput, reduced power consumption, and even cooler operation. Offering a “Quad Interface” of FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA connectivity for data transfer speeds up to 300MB/s, the Mercury Elite Pro mini delivers high performance storage/backup to Mac or PC users in a portable, no AC adapter required Plug and Play footprint.

13 “Quad Interface” models offering a variety of speed and capacity options from $99.97: Article Continues…

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OWC Announces Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini As Industry’s First 2.5″ 1.5TB “Quad Interface” FireWire/USB Bus Powered Portable Storage Solution

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today that its OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini™ 1.5TB model is the highest capacity 2.5“ “Quad Interface” bus powered portable storage solution on the market and available for immediate ordering with 12 models priced from $99.97. Featuring a “Quad Interface” of FireWire® 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA interface connectivity for data transfer speeds up to 300MB/s, the fanless Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini delivers the highest storage/backup performance available to Mac or PC users in a portable, brushed aluminum, no AC adapter required Plug and Play footprint.

In addition to the new 1.5TB model which offers 500GB more capacity than other competing brand portable drives, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is available in eleven other “Quad Interface” models offering a variety of speed, capacity, and drive type options: Article Continues…

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 High Performance Plug And Play Hardware RAID Data Storage/Backup Solution Now Offers Up To 12TB

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today it has expanded the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 desktop hardware RAID storage line storage capacity to 12TB by utilizing four 3TB high performance hard drives in the Qx2’s four hot swappable drive bays. In addition to offering massive storage/backup capacity in a desktop sized footprint, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 features a “Quad Interface” of FireWire® 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports and four selectable Hardware RAID settings – 0, 1, 5, 10 – for high speed, highly reliable Plug and Play use with Macs and PCs.

Four Prosumer Models Starting At $479.99

  • 2TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (500GB x 4 w/64MB cache) & three year warranty - $479.99

  • 4TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1TB x 4 w/128MB cache) & three year warranty –  $579.99

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Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini Gets Smaller – in Price That Is.

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed
It’s Friday and that means we’ve got another round of price drops just for you. This week we’re featuring the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini – A smaller, portable, bus-powered version of our best selling and award winning Mercury Elite-AL Pro line of desktop solutions. Designed for High-Performance, Flexibility, and Reliability + Ultimate Portability – this FireWire 800/400+USB2+eSATA measures in at only 5.5″ x 3.8″ x 1.1″ and provides up to 1.0TB of High-Performance Portable Capacity!

Key features of the OWC Mercury Elite-AL FireWire 400 + USB2 Solutions include:

  • Performance Oxford-based bridge solution
  • Two 1394B 9 Pin, One USB 2.0, and One eSATA Interface ports
  • Large Data Buffer up to 32MB
  • Fully bootable, ideal for applications, A/V, Backup (TimeMachine, Etc), Photos, Music, etc.
  • Single Cable Bus-Powerable via FireWire or USB2
  • Bus-Power via FireWire (or AC Adapter) for High-Performance eSATA Interface use.
  • Attractive & Compact shock resistant Aluminum design
  • FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and eSATA Flex Cables ALL Included!
  • Fully Mac & PC Compatible
  • Industry Leading Comprehensive 3 Year Solution Warranty Article Continues…
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June 9, 2000 – Mercury makes its appearance.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

The original OWC Mercury FireWire Drive

Not many people are aware of it, but today is a pretty special day. On June 9, 2000, OWC introduced it’s first FireWire equippped storage solutions: the OWC Mercury and OWC Mercury Plus, which featured 5400 and 7200rpm drives, respectively.

Of course the Mercury series of drives didn’t stop there. As all good things do, it evolved and grew over time. After the Mercury and Mercury Plus came the Mercury Elite and the Mercury Elite Pro (a line that lives on as the Mercury Elite Pro Classic). Those lines saw the addition of FireWire 800 as the new high-speed connection.

Then, came the Mercury Elite-AL Pro, which were closely followed by the Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID models. The most recent addition to the OWC Mercury family of desktop drives is, of course, the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2. All these drives not only feature FireWire and FireWire 800 interfaces, but also have USB 2.0 and eSATA ports available for wider flexibility in connecting to your computer. Article Continues…

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Consider Keeping a Backup of Your Data Off-Site

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | Author: OWC Richard

Several months ago, I had a catastrophic drive failure with my main music computer which wiped out my audio drive & motherboard!  I decided then and there that I would never let myself be vulnerable for data loss again.

I recently purchased the new Mercury Elite-Al Pro mini, and I love it! The purchase was made specifically for storing my precious music, financial records, and picture data off-site. That way, if anything were to physically happen to my computer, I would not lose any of my data.

Initially, I was going to ask my brother-in-law to hold onto the backup drive at his house for my off-site storage, but he’s approximately 40 miles from where I live.  But then I remembered my safe deposit box at the bank. Why not put the drive in there along with my paper based documents?

The beauty of this drive, as well as the Mercury On-The-Go-Pro, is that it fits easily in my safe deposit box.  So with very little expense, I now have off-site storage within 2 miles from where my studio is for protecting all my precious data.

I will be purchasing a second Mercury Elite-Al Pro mini so I can reduce the trips to my bank to every two weeks with new data saved. I’ve found that this is an excellent product, and now I finally have an inexpensive off-site storage solution!

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID FireWire 800/400+USB2 storage solution a clear winner!

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

TripleCrown-ALProSince we’ve started with the price dropping blog posts around here, we’ve never before seen a product win the “Triple Crown” of price reductions.  On June 25th, we watched as the 4.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID FireWire 800/400+USB2 storage solution triumphantly crossed the finish line with a $70 price drop.  On August 27th, we marveled as this same 4.0TB unit gave an impressive victory with an additional $100 knocked off the price.  Now, we’re pleased to report that one more $60 price drop today will have earned this product a $230 total reduction in price since Summer!

Quality, Performance, Reliability.

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID FireWire 800/400+USB2 storage solutions utilize the latest high-performance, custom Oxford based bridge coupled with the latest Serial-ATA HDD technology to provide overall superior reliability and performance. These solutions are further backed with an industry leading 3 Year Full Solution Warranty.

Now available with up to 4.0TB (4000GB) of capacity, Elite-AL Pro RAID is a sleek and compact Aluminum design of only 9.3″ Long x 2.8″ Wide x 5.6″ High. These Elites are Fully A/V Certified as well as EMC Retrospect Backup Certified for all your Audio/Video, Backup(Time Machine Ready), Graphics, Music, General Data needs and more! With 2 x FW800 Ports, 1 x FW400 Port, 1 x USB 2.0/1.1 Port – solutions are also fully Bootable and provide excellent data accessibility via any of the available interface ports, whichever best/desired interface is available on the system(s) it’s being connected to with complete interoperability of read/write functionality and accessibility.

Current OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro FW800/400+USB2 RAID prices:

See the complete line up here.

Solutions all include the full retail version of Prosoft DataBackup III ($59 retail value) for OS X and NovaStor NovaBackup ($49 retail value) for Windows. Also included in the complete Intech HD Speedtools performance suite and Carbon Copy Cloner. None of these applications are required to use the Elite, but excellent applications to have in your utilities library & the DataBackup can hardly be beat. FireWire 800 connecting cable, FireWire 400 connecting cable, USB connecting cable, and 3 Year Warranty also included.

As with any major sporting event, there is always a prize over and above the satisfaction of winning.  In this case, we give the extra prize to you, our customer…

Special Offer:   OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Solutions qualify for Prosoft Drive Genius OWC Exclusive Offer!

Buy Drive Genius now for s low as $25 with purchase of a qualifying storage product – That’s up to 74% off retail price, up to 37% off OWC’s lowest normal selling price! Details online here: http://eshop.macsales.com/special_offer/prosoft_Drive_Genius

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