OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro FireWire 800/400+USB2
Combo Storage Solution
High Performance, High Reliability, High Portability, and Style are standard
for the OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro Series!
 Outstanding Features:
High Performance: The High-Speed Oxford 912 FW 800 and Prolific 2507 USB 2.0 chipsets combined with the fastest drive mechanisms available give Mercury Elite -AL Pro Solutions some of the fastest single drive transfer rates possible, even exceeding 60 Megabytes Per Second!
High Reliability: A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the Mercury Elite -AL Pro Series is Built to Last. The included Two Year Warranty backs this up!
High Portability: The Compact and Shock Resistant Design has the Mercury Elite Series going places! In addition, the Mercury Elite -AL series offers (2) FireWire 800(1394B), one FireWire 400(1394A port and (1) USB 2.0+1.1 Port for Easy Plug and Play on virtually ANY system with a FireWire Port! Even the cables are included!
Style: Designed to compliment any user's system, the Mercury Elite -AL 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. Also, a blue activity LED compliments the design recessed behind the front grille showing when your drive is being accessed
From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be
everything you'd hope for and more!
Time Machine ready means that our external hard drives keep an up-to-date
copy of all of your files and document under OS X Leopard™. Go back in time to
recover anything with ease.
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 Prosoft
Engineering® Data Backup 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,
FREE!
 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 and later. A $49.95 Value,
FREE! |
 Intech® SpeedTools
Utilities™
Intech Hard Disk 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, FREE! |
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November 2005 |
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| Carry and protect your Mercury Elite drive in style with an OWC carrying case! |
 Its the perfect choice to tote your OWC Mercury Elite around in!
Black Cordura Nylon for the ultimate in durability
Side pouch for your power supply / FireWire/USB Cables!
Only $19.99!!!
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| All OWC Mercury FireWire hard drives are fully compatible with these systems |
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Apple OS X 10.1.x and later - including the latest 10.5.x Leopard, Apple Mac OS 8.6 and Later.
Mac OS X 10.2.x or later required for FW800 Operation. |
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Windows ME and Later.
Windows 2000 or later required for FW800 Operation. |
| Product Specifications: |
| Chipset: |
- FireWire: Custom Oxford 912 FW800(1394A) and FW800 (1394B)
- USB: Prolific PL-2507 USB2.0/1.1
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| Interfaces Supported: |
- FireWire 800 (1394B)
- FireWire 400 (1394a)
- USB 2.0
- USB 1.1
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| Drive Rotation Speed: |
7200 RPM |
| Data Buffer: |
8MB (8192k) |
| Port Configuration: |
- FireWire 800 - (2) 9 pin ports
- FireWire 400 - (1) 6 pin port
- USB 2.0/1.1 - (1) 5 pin port
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Maximum Data
Transfer Rate: |
- FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
- FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)
- USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
- USB 1.1 - 12Mbps (or 1.5MB/sec)
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| Port/Interface Bootability |
Can I use this solution as external startup drive?
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Macintosh System
Requirements: |
- FireWire 800: Macintosh with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 card. FireWire 800 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
- FireWire 400: Macintosh with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 400 card. FireWire 400 requires Mac OS 8.6 or later.
- USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 3rd party PCI FireWire interface card running Mac OS 10.1 or later. USB 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
- USB 1.1: Macintosh with USB 1.1 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 1.1 card. USB 1.1 requires Mac OS 8.6 or later.
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Windows System
Requirements: |
- FireWire 800: Windows system with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 card. FireWire 800 requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.
- FireWire 400: Windows system with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 400 card. FireWire 400 requires Windows ME, 2000 or XP.
- USB 2.0: Windows system with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card. USB 2.0 requires Windows ME, 2000 or XP.
- USB 1.1: Windows system with USB 1.1 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 1.1 card. USB 1.1 requires Windows ME, 2000 or XP.
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| Software Included: |
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| Power Supply: |
100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching |
| External Case Dimensions: |
9.3" x 1.4" x 5.6" (237mm x 36mm x 142mm) |
Drive Weight
(no accessories): |
Approximately 3.0 pounds (1.36kg) |
| 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: |
(operating) 65G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS |
| Vibration: |
(operating) 1.0G (5 - 300Hz)
(non-operating) 5.0G (5 - 500Hz) |
| MTBF: |
More than 500,000 power-on hours |
| Warranty: |
Two Year Repair/Replacement Warranty- In addition to OWC's Warranty, the hard drive mechanism inside this solution has an additional 1 year warranty direct with the manufacturer.
Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion OWC's 2 years Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty. |
| Standard mechanism: |
Hitachi P7K500 |
Performance Benchmarks
Tested using a Dual 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 (FW800) running Mac OS X 10.4.10 |
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| This OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro drive includes: |
- 250GB External OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro FireWire 800/400+USB2 Drive
- 36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable (9-9 Pin cable)
- 36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 400 connecting cable (6-6 Pin cable)
- 36" High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0/1.1 connecting cable
- External AutoSwitching 100/240v 50/60Hz Power Adapter
- 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 1GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed
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