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OWC Announces Mercury Elite Pro mini as Industry’s First eSATA 6G and Bus-Powered USB 3.0 Portable Storage Solution

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today it has expanded its OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini line to include the industry’s first eSATA 6G and bus-powered USB 3.0 portable external drive. Available in 13 different hard drive or OWC Mercury SSD-equipped capacity configurations up to 1.5TB, the new USB 3.0/2.0 and eSATA 6G “triple interface” model delivers up to 600MB/s data rate storage/backup performance to Mac and PC users in a Plug and Play, mobile footprint. The new Mercury Elite Pro mini and other OWC storage solutions will be shown in Other World Computing’s booth #5231, LVCC North Hall, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which begins today in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Portable and Bus-Powered for Mobile Lifestyles

Measuring a compact 5.5″ L x 3.8″ W x 1.1″ H, the Mercury Elite Pro mini offers portable storage capacity up to 1.5TB – enough space for up to 1.5 million JPEG photos, 750 DVD movies, 115 hours of digital video, or 526,000 MP3 songs – in its fanless, aircraft grade brushed aluminum enclosure. Because it’s bus-powered, the Mercury Elite Pro mini doesn’t require an AC adapter, so it’s ideal for in-the-field business professionals, creative/entertainment professionals, students, and anyone else needing to back up data, transport large files between computers, gain additional storage capacity, and even perform video editing and live music recording.  Article Continues…

Holiday Sales Continue on Cyber Monday

Monday, November 28th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Gifts from OWC - Always the right choice!Last week, we posted on our Black Friday/Holiday specials and, quite frankly, the response has been tremendous. We’ve had record numbers of orders, which tells us that a lot of people are finding those deals to be pretty good. Well, we’re going to bump it up a notch and throw a few more deals into the mix.

Rather than a slow, building tease where we show you some neat stuff before trotting out the big mind-blower, we’re going to start out with the special that a lot of us around the office are excited about: We’re offering Drive Genius 3 for up to 74% off Retail Price with the purchase of a qualifying OWC/Newer Technology Storage Solution or enclosure/DIY Kit!

This is actually pretty exciting. Drive Genius 3 allows you to maintain and monitor your drive’s health, alerting you to possible issues before they become unmanageable. You can even use the Drive Slim feature to remove duplicate files and perform other actions that can reduce the amount of space taken up on your drives. With the current hard drive shortage, you’ll want to keep your current drives in tip-top shape, and Drive Genius 3 is the tool to help you do so.

Speaking of hard drives, we’ve got some great new deals on bus-powered portable drives. Starting at $79, these drives are an affordable, convenient solution to your storage needs while on the go.

Over the years, we’ve shown that adding more memory to your computer gives you the most performance per dollar than any other upgrade. Now, with our special holiday pricing, there’s no reason not to max out that new computer (or, for that matter, the one you already have) and keep the holiday joy going all year long.

Of course, these aren’t the only great deals we’ve got for you; we have nearly three hundred different items on our Holiday Specials page. You’d better act fast, though – with the record numbers of people ordering this year, you’ll want to make sure you get your great deal before supplies run out!

 

OWC SuperSlim Turns Any 9.5mm SATA Slot Loading Internal Optical Drive Into An External Enclosure For Plug And Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray Disc Burning/Playing

Friday, May 13th, 2011 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing today announced the OWC SuperSlim, a USB 2.0 bus powered optical drive enclosure for turning any 9.5mm SATA slot loading internal optical drive, even those with mounting tabs, into an external Plug and Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray disc burning /playing solution for Macs and PCs.

The OWC SuperSlim, is ultra thin, weighs only 4.2 ounces, and is bus powered (no AC adapter is needed), for easy transport in any gear bag.

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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 On-The-Go Pro Bus Powered High-Performance Portable Drive 750GB 7200RPM Speed Model Added To Line With Up to 1.0TB Capacity

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today it has added four new 750GB 7200 RPM models to its award-winning OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro bus powered portable storage solution line. The Mercury On-The-Go Pro is a high-performance, pocket-sized portable storage solution for Mac or PC users featuring FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 3, and/or USB 2.0 interfaces for real world data transfer speeds up to 170MB/s. Available with up to 1.0TB of storage capacity, the Mercury On-The-Go Pro can hold up to one million JPEG photos, 500 DVD movies, 76 hours of digital video, or 350,000 MP3 songs.

The Mercury On-The-Go Pro 750GB 7200RPM line features four models, including a “Triple Interface” model for FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0; a “Combo Interface” model for FireWire 400 and USB 2.0; a USB 3.0 “SuperSpeed” model for USB 3/2.0 Backwards; and a USB 2.0 model all available immediately priced from $134.99 from Other World Computing at www.macsales.com. In addition to the newest models, Mercury On-The-Go Pro models are available with up to 1.0TB in 5400RPM models and also available with Solid State Drives (SSD) with models currently up to 240GB. Article Continues…

NewerTech Announces Guardian MAXimus mini Bus Powered “Quad Interface” Portable RAID Storage Solution For “Live Activity” Backup

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Newer Technology, Inc. announced today it has expanded its award-winning storage solution line with the new Guardian MAXimus mini bus powered portable hardware RAID storage solution for “live activity” backup/data redundancy of critical data. Featuring hardware RAID-1 redundancy for a MAXProtect “mirrored” copy of data or RAID-0 for MAXPeform speed and a “Quad Interface” of FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, & eSATA connections, the Guardian MAXimus mini offers Mac and PC users Plug and Play storage capacity up to 1.5TB and data transfer speeds up to 300MB/s.

The NewerTech Guardian MAXimus mini is available immediately in six pre-configured hard drive and Solid State Drive (SSD) models with up to 1.5TB of storage capacity starting at $249.99 MSRP from NewerTech’s exclusive distributor, Other World Computing, as well as through the retail channel. For more details on this new storage solution, as well as reseller inquiries, visit: http://www.newertech.com/products/gmaxmini.php. For more information on NewerTech’s complete line of accessories and upgrades for Macs, PCs, and iDevices, visit: http://www.newertech.com/products. Article Continues…

Category: Press Releases

Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1.0TB is an Industry first.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Today, we are happy to announce that the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is the first 2.5″ 1TB “Quad Interface” bus powered portable storage solution on the market and available for immediate ordering with 10 models priced from $119.99. 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 high performance storage/backup to Mac or PC users in a portable, brushed aluminum, no AC adapter required Plug and Play footprint.

“We’re very pleased to have our renowned Mercury storage line achieve another industry first,” said Larry O’Connor, CEO, Other World Computing. “With the highest capacity and most interfaces in a portable design, our ‘mini’ delivers massive, professional grade data storage/backup to the modern mobile computing society.”

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OWC Express priced to move even faster!

Friday, November 27th, 2009 | Author: OWC Chris S.

SantaGlobeHello Readers, and happy Day-After-Thanksgiving to you!

As always, while most of the United States is recovering from an L-Tryptophan-induced slumber, we here at OWC are ready to help you with your holiday tech gift needs. This year, we’ve got something for you that we think you’re going to like.

We’ve got blowout prices for the already economical OWC Express 2.5″ Drive Enclosure, reducing the prices to as low as $9.99 for the white model.

While this price makes of one of the best USB bus-powered enclosure deals available even better, you still need a 2.5″ SATA hard drive to put in there. If you don’t have one already laying around, we’ve got some great “Express + Hard Drive” bundle offers – you can either put the new drive right in the enclosure, or you can replace the old drive in your MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac mini and put the drive you took out into the Express. And those bundles have a little extra value in them as we include at  no cost a $5 value five piece toolkit to help you get the job done.

Either way you go, OWC can show you how to do it all yourself. Our highly acclaimed Instructional Series of videos can show you how to replace the drive in your computer, and our latest installment shows you how to install a drive (be it new or old) in the Express itself. As always, you can find those videos both in our Tech Center and on our YouTube channel.

Of course, this isn’t the only Black Friday special we have for you. You can find all our great post-Thanksgiving specials on this special page, as well as our every-day great prices throughout our site.