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8.0TB OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Class 4 Bay 1U Rackmount RAID Ready Solution 256MB Cache / 7200RPM with SAS Interface. 5 Year OWC Warranty. (OWMRPMSS4B08.0E)
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OWC Mercury Rack Pro
8.0TB 1U 4 Bay Rack
Enterprise Class Storage Solution
External mini-SAS / Mac / PC
OWC affordability, reliability, and ease of use in a single 1U rack space.
Need massive amounts of storage?
The OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Class Storage Solution is a four bay external mini-SAS hard drive enclosure configured as four independent hard drives, up to a maximum capacity of 16.0TB (4.0TB per hard drive mechanism).
The OWC Mercury Rack Pro features a single external mini-SAS interface, to not only reduce cable clutter, but to provide four full channels of data (one per drive) through a single external mini-SAS cable. It's like having four separate eSATA/SAS cables but in a single package.
Designed specifically to meet the demands of server, audio production, and video production environments, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro four Bay 1U Solutions provide data transfer rates of up to 24Gb/s data rates¹! Using the highest capacity SATA hard drive mechanisms available, and offering Plug & Play simplicity, the possibilities are endless!
Note: OWC Mercury Rack Pro solutions do not include rack rails. If rails are required for your rack setup, OWC has them available. Click Here.
The OWC Mercury Rack Pro features a single external mini-SAS interface, to not only reduce cable clutter, but to provide four full channels of data (one per drive) through a single external mini-SAS cable. It's like having four separate eSATA/SAS cables but in a single package.
Designed specifically to meet the demands of server, audio production, and video production environments, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro four Bay 1U Solutions provide data transfer rates of up to 24Gb/s data rates¹! Using the highest capacity SATA hard drive mechanisms available, and offering Plug & Play simplicity, the possibilities are endless!
Note: OWC Mercury Rack Pro solutions do not include rack rails. If rails are required for your rack setup, OWC has them available. Click Here.
Outstanding Features
Great Performance
Using the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available gives the OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS 4 Bay 1 U Solutions a solid, performance focused base. Adding a high-speed external mini-SAS card (not included) further enhances the OWC Mercury Rack Pro providing some of the fastest drive transfer rates possible, up to 24Gb/s¹!
High Reliability
A Top-Notch design using the best components gives the OWC Mercury Rack Pro an industry leading five year warranty and ensures the series is built to last!
Flexible Form
The OWC Mercury Rack Pro can easily be converted to a desktop form-factor via a Phillips screwdriver by simply removing the rack ears and installing the included anti-skid, vibration dampening feet.
From day one, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!
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 »
Includes
- OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay 1U Storage Solution
- Integrated ROHS, CE, and FCC compliant Power Supply
- mini-SAS cable (1 meter)
- Rack Mounting Handles
- Anti-skid, Vibration Dampening Desktop Mounting Feet
- Screws for Rack / Desktop Conversion
- OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Manual (7.5MB PDF)
- 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
- OWC 5 Year Solution Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
- Complimentary 6 Month Level 1 Data Recovery
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Product Specifications:
Interfaces Supported
- Unit provides one (1) External mini-SAS, supporting up to 24Gb/s
- Enclosure uses 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives
RAID / JBOD Support
- RAID-Ready ² and JBOD; 4 independent drive channels
Standard Mechanism
- 4 x 2.0TB* Toshiba MK2002TSKB 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 Rotation Speed
- 7200 RPM
Drive Cache Size
- 64MB per drive, 256MB total for the solution
Port Configuration
- external mini-SAS up to 24Gb/s
Format
- Pre-formatted for Mac OSX
View instructions on Windows formatting
Max Data Transfer Rate
- external mini-SAS - up to 24Gb/s (or 2400 MB/sec)
Recommended external mini-SAS Cards
- Available cards for the OWC Mercury Rack Pro
- PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops
Recommended mini-SAS Connecting Cables
- When using Passive/passthrough mini-SAS storage solutions equipped with "6G" 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0 Revision) drives, we strongly recommend only using connecting cables of 1 meter or shorter length due to the increased signal integrity requirements of 6G drives. Active storage solutions such as SAS expander systems equipped with 6G drives can utilize mini-SAS connecting cables up to 10 meters in length.
Macintosh System Requirements
- Mini-SAS cable included: 1M mini-SAS cable (included) is required for use with SATA/SAS 6Gb/s drives due to signal integrity requirements, longer cable lengths are not supported. When using SATA/SAS 3Gb/s drives, longer cable lengths (sold separately) can be used and are available here.
- external mini-SAS: Macintosh with external mini-SAS via 3rd party controller card interface, (not included). external mini-SAS requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Including ‘Lion’ 10.7.x.
- Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.
Windows System Requirements
- Mini-SAS cable included: 1M mini-SAS cable (included) is required for use with SATA/SAS 6Gb/s drives due to signal integrity requirements, longer cable lengths are not supported. When using SATA/SAS 3Gb/s drives, longer cable lengths (sold separately) can be used and are available here.
- external mini-SAS: Windows with external mini-SAS via 3rd party controller card interface, (not included). external mini-SAS requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.
Software Included
- Intech® Hard Disk 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 installed
Cooling
- Three (3) 4cm Brushless, whisper quiet, constant speed fans
Power Supply
- UL Listed U.S./International Adjustable 100 ~ 240v, 50/60Hz, 200W (Max.) input Power Supply (adapter plugs for International use sold separately).
External Case Dimensions
- 11.9"(D) x 17.3"(W) x 1.7"(H)
- 30.3cm x 44cm x 4.5cm
- 11.9"(D) x 17.3"(W) x 2.2"(H) (with feet)
- 30.3cm x 44cm x 5.5cm (with feet)
- 11.9"D) x 19.2"(W) x 1.7"(H) (with rack mounting handles)
- 30.3cm x 48.7cm x 4.5cm (with rack mounting handles)
Enclosure Weight (no accessories)
- Approximately 10 lbs. (4.5kg)
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
- 65G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS
Vibration
- (operating) 1.0G (5 - 300Hz)
- (non-operating) 5.0G (5 - 500Hz)
Warranty
OWC 5 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 5 Year Solution warranty
Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of OWC's 5 year Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.
Software
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 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 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
Benchmarks
Click any of the benchmarks below to view the results.
RAID 0 (Striped) Test Results (utilizing Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G 2e RAID Controller Card)
RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity) Test Results (utilizing Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G 2e RAID Controller Card)
¹ Depending on selected drives, RAID setting, and external mini SAS equipped SAS or SATA card.
² RAID drives via software or SATA controller card.
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