OWC Mercury Elite Pro FW400 Combo Storage Solutions
Outstanding Features:
High Performance: Our High-Speed Oxford 911 Bridge Solution combined with the fastest drive mechanisms available give Mercury Elite Solutions class leading drive transfer rates, even exceeding 40 Megabytes Per Second!
High Reliability: A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the Mercury Elite 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 offers (2) FireWire 400(1394A), and (1) USB 2.0+1.1 ports for Easy Plug and Play on virtually ANY system with a FireWire or USB Port! Even the cables are included!
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.
From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be
everything you'd hope for and more!
Independent Reviews of the OWC Mercury Elite hard drives
“High Capacity, High Performance” MacWorld Magazine
“Excellent Performance and Versatile Connectivity” Mac Design Online
“You Couldn’t Ask for a Better Drive” MacSofa
“A Dramatic Bargain” Chicago Tribune
“Works Perfectly” MyMac.com
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!
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!
All OWC Mercury FireWire hard drives are fully compatible with these systems
Apple OS X 10.1.x and later - including the latest 10.4.x Tiger, Apple Mac OS 8.6 and Later. Mac OS X 10.2.x or later required for FW800 Operation.
Windows ME and Later. Windows 2000 or later required for FW800 Operation.
If you own an OWC Mercury Elite FireWire 800 drive solution, click here for a very important note about updating your hard drive if you purchased before October 30, 2003.
Product Specifications:
Chipset
Oxford 911 FireWire 400 & In-Systems USB 2.0/1.1
Interfaces Supported:
FireWire 400 (1394a) and USB 2.0/USB 1.1
Data Buffer:
16 Megabyte (16384k)
Port Configuration:
FireWire 400 - (2) 6 pin ports
USB 2.0/1.1 - (1) 5 pin port
Maximum Data
Transfer Rate:
FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec
USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
USB 1.1 - 12Mbps (or 1.5MB/sec)
Macintosh System
Requirements:
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.
Windows System
Requirements:
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.
Two Year Repair/Replacement Warranty- In addition to OWC's Warranty, the Western Digital mechanism inside this solution has an additional 1 year warranty direct with Western Digital.
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:
Wester Digital Caviar SE
Performance Benchmarks
Tested using a Dual 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 (FW800) running Mac OS X 10.4.10
Click on benchmark images
for a larger view
Rear View:
This OWC Mercury Elite Combo FireWire / USB 2.0 drive includes:
250GB External OWC Mercury Elite Pro FW400 Combo Hard Drive
Outstanding Features:
