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4.0TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro eSATA Dual Drive (2.0TBx2) 7200RPM External Pro 'RAID READY' Solution. Complete with Prosoft Data Backup, Intech HD Speedtools, NovaStor NovaBackup for PC and all cables. 3 year OWC Solution Warranty. (OWCMESR4.0T128)

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OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual

4.0TB Dual Bay SATA I/II to eSATA

Mac / PC / eSATA
  • Mac
  • PC
  • eSATA
High Performance, High Reliability, High Portability, and Style are standard for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID Series!
Outstanding Features
High Performance
Serial ATA is one of the fastest data transfer technologies on the market! Perfect for digital audio & video, it's THE solution you need for massive storage and ultimate speed!
High Reliability
A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the Mercury Elite Pro AL- Series is Built to Last.
Style
Designed to complement any user's system, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro was created in mind with the Power Macintosh G5 system as a starting point. As the pictures show, it's a fine storage solution for any computer.
Includes the Powerful SpeedTools Utility Suite for Mac
The comprehensive Mac utility used by professionals for accurate Mac diagnosis and maintenance. Click the SOFTWARE tab below to learn more »
From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!

Includes

OWC Mercury Elite Dual eSATA Includes
  • External OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
  • (2) 1 Meter eSATA - eSATA connecting cables
  • UL Listed U.S./International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 5 Amp output Power Supply (adapter plugs for International use sold separately). For replacement power supply, click here.
  • Pre-installed Backup and Utility software
    • Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6 - X only)
    • ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
    • NovaStor NovaBACKUP® for Windows 2000 or later
  • Over 1.5GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software pre-installed
  • Mercury Elite Pro Dual-Drive eSATA Assembly Manual (4.2MB PDF)
  • OWC 3 Year Solution Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
  • Complimentary 6 Month Level 1 Data Recovery

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Product Specifications:

Bus Interface

  • eSATA

Chipset

  • None; direct connection between the hard drive and the controller card.

Standard Mechanism

    2.0TB Seagate Barracuda Specifications:

    Specifications

    Form Factor
    3.5″ HDD
    Interface
    SATA 6Gb/s
    Capacity1
    2.0TB
    Formatted Capacity2
    1862GiB
    Rotational Speed
    7,200 RPM
    Cache / Data Buffer
    64MB
    Manufacturer Model Number
    ST2000DM001
    RoHS Compliant
    Yes
    Format

    Physical

    Height (max)
    26.1mm (1.028″)
    Width (max)
    101.6mm (4.000″)
    Length (max)
    146.99mm (5.787″)
    Weight (typical)
    626g (1.38 lbs.)
    Data Heads
    6
    Number of Disks
    3
    Bytes per Sector
    4096

    Reliability3

    Contact Start-Stops
    300,000
    Annual Failure Rate
    <1%
    Nonrecoverable Read Errors
    1 per 1014 bits read
    Warranty
    2 Year Seagate Warranty

    Performance

    Transfer Rate (Max)
    6.0 Gb/s

    Power

    Maximum Start Current, DC
    2.0 Amp
    Seek Power
    8.0 Watts
    Read Power
    8.0 Watts
    Write Power
    8.0 Watts
    Standby Mode
    0.75 Watts
    Sleep Mode
    0.75 Watts

    Environmental (Operating)

    Altitude
    -304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

    Environmental (Non-Operating)

    Altitude
    -304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)
    1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
    2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
    3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
  • 2 x 2.0TB* Seagate Barracuda Hard Disk Drive**
    *1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

    **OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.

Drive Cache Size

  • 128 Megabyte (2 Drives with 64MB (65,536k) cache each)

Drive Rotation Speed

  • 7200RPM

Port Configuration

  • 2 eSATA Ports

Max Data Transfer Rate

  • eSATA - 6.0 Gbit/s (or 500 MB/sec)

RAID support

  • Comes configured as two independent drives
  • RAID 0 (Striped) or RAID 1 (Mirrored) can be setup using
    • Software such as Disk Utility or SoftRAID
    • Hardware using a RAID card (sold separately)

Port/Interface Bootability

    Can I use this solution as external startup drive?
  • eSATA: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

Format

Software Included

Macintosh System Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and including 'Lion' 10.7.x and two available eSATA ports.
  • Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

Windows System Requirements

  • Windows XP(64 bit) or later and two available eSATA ports.

Recommended eSATA Cards

Power Supply

External Case Dimensions

  • 2.9 in (W) x 9 in (D) x 5.3 in (H) (73mm x 229mm x 134mm)

Drive Weight (no accessories)

  • Approximately 5.8 pounds (2.63kg)

Product Manual

Operating Environment:

Temperature

  • (operating) 5°C – 55°C (41°F – 131°F)
  • (non-operating) –40°C – 65°C (–40°F – 149°F)

Relative Humidity

  • (operating) 8% - 90% RH (Non-condensing)
  • (non-operating) 5% - 95% RH (Non-condensing)

Shock

  • 70G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS

Vibration

  • (operating) 1.0G (5 - 300Hz)
  • (non-operating) 5.0G (5 - 500Hz)

MTBF (hours)

  • More than 1,200,000 power-on hours

Load/Unload Cycles

  • 50,000

Warranty

OWC 3 Year Solution Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur – OWC is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

View more information about the OWC 3 Year Solution warranty

Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of OWC's 3 year Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n OWCMESR4.0T128

Software

Prosoft Macworld 4.5 mice
Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you.
A $59.00 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution
Novastor
NovaStor NovaBACKUP® Solution for Windows®
NovaBACKUP has been helping millions of users recover from data loss and disasters for over 18 years. Feature rich, NovaBACKUP provides a powerful backup solution. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step backup and restore wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use. Requires Windows 2000 or later.
A $49.95 Value! View detailed software info
Intech SpeedTools Utilities
Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™
Intech SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.
An $89.95 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution

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