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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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MPG review of OWC portable drives proves SSD power efficiency

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | Author: OWC Chris S.

Ever since we released the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs a little over a year ago, we’ve talked a lot about the dramatic impact it has on performance. We’ve shown several video shootouts, had many third party reviews, and even had an in-depth dissection on its performance. I think it would be safe to say we’ve given substantial evidence to backup those claims of speed improvement.

What we haven’t talked about much, however, is how much less power our SSDs use when compared to a standard hard drive.

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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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OWC Announces Bus Powered Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Mini Portable “Quad Interface” Storage Solution With Selectable Hardware RAID

Thursday, December 16th, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Other World Computing announced today it has expanded its award-winning storage solution line with the new Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual mini bus powered portable hardware RAID storage solution. Featuring 14 pre-configured models with hardware RAID-1 “mirrored” redundancy for “live activity” data protection; or RAID-0 “stripe” for maximum data transfer speed, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual mini contains two 2.5″ hard drives or OWC Mercury SSDs for up to 2.0TB of capacity, a “Quad Interface” of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, & eSATA connections for Plug and Play data transfer speeds up to 300MB/s with Mac and PC computers. Article Continues…

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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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OWC gives you a double-dip on Elite-AL Pro RAID price drops.

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

Usually, if you see one price reduction on an OWC or NewerTech storage solution, you can safely bet that more price drops on other solutions are right around the corner. That theory stands up once again, as the new prices on the Triple-Interface Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID models we announced late last week are followed up with price drops on the “Quad Interface” model.

Powered by a custom Oxford-based bridge coupled with the latest Serial-ATA hard drive technology, these Elites are fully A/V Certified as well as EMC Retrospect Backup Certified for all your audio/video, backup, graphics, music, and general data needs.

Other features include:

  • One eSATA port, two FW800 ports, one FW400 port, and one USB 2.0/1.1 port
  • Fully bootable
  • eSATA, USB2, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800 cables all included!
  • Prosoft DataBackup III (Mac OS X), , Intech Speedtools (Mac OS 8.6-10.5.x), Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac OS X), and NovaStor NovaBackup (Windows) included
  • Fully Mac & PC compatible
  • Industry Leading Three Year Solution Warranty

Yes, we include all that, yet we still are able to drop the prices down to prices like these: Article Continues…

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