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1.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL PRO 800 MIRROR RAID 0+1 (1.0TB Stripe w/1.0TB Mirror) 7200RPM FireWire 800/400 Oxford 934 Storage Solution w/64MB Data Buffer total. FW800 & FW400 Cables, SoftRAID 3, Prosoft Data Backup, & Intech HD SpeedTools. 3yr Warranty (OWCME8MS7S10T64) Special Offer: Buy Prosoft Drive Genius v3 for only $39 with this qualifying storage item, That's 60% Off Retail! Offer will be shown in basket once this item is added.	Same Day	$479.99

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID

1.0TB Triple Interface Mirror RAID 0+1

Mac / PC / FireWire 800 / FireWire 400 / USB 2.0 & 1.1

High Performance, High Reliability, High Portability, and Style are standard for the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID Series!

Outstanding Features

Superb Redundancy

The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro MIRROR RAID QUAD is designed with data security in mind. Using the award-winning SoftRAID 4, this drive will give you the peace of mind knowing that your critical data is always safe, even if one of the hard disk drives fails. Featuring comprehensive monitoring tools, and automatic recovery, SoftRAID is the best solution on the market!

High Performance

The High-Speed Oxford 934 FireWire 800/USB 2.0 chipset combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available give OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID Solutions some of the fastest single drive transfer rates possible, even exceeding 80 Megabytes Per Second!

High Reliability

A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID Series is Built to Last. The included Three Year Warranty backs this up!

High Portability

The Compact and Shock Resistant Design has the Mercury Elite Series going places! In addition, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro -AL RAID series offers (2) FireWire 800(1394B) ports, (1) FireWire 400 (1394A) port and a USB 2.0 Port for Easy Plug and Play on ANY system! The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID even includes all connecting cables!

Style

Designed to compliment any user's system, the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID 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.

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Time Machine Ready

Keep an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents via Time Machine with OWC drives.

From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!

Includes

(2) External OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual RAID Hard Drive
36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable (9-9 Pin cable)
12" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable for interconnect (9-9 Pin cable)
36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 400 connecting cable (6-6 Pin cable)
72" High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0 conneting cable (A-B cable)
(2) External AutoSwitching 100/240v 50/60Hz Power Adapter
Owner's Manual
Backup and Utility software CD

SoftRAID 4 (SoftRAID 4 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Certain CD creation features will only run on 10.3 or later.)
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
Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Over 1.5GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed

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Product Specifications:

Chipset

Oxford 934 FW400(1394A), FW800 (1394B), and USB 2.0

Interfaces Supported

FireWire 800 (1394B), FireWire 400 (1394a) and USB 2.0

RAID Support

The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro MIRROR RAID QUAD solution is shipped preconfigured as 2 drive enclosures, each with two Striped (RAID 0) drives, RAIDed together as a Mirror (RAID 0+1) for redundant backup using the included award-winning SoftRAID 4.

Standard Mechanism

4 x 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12*

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

Drive Rotation Speed

7200 RPM

Drive Cache Size

64 Megabyte (4 Drives with 16MB (16,384) cache each)

Port Configuration

FireWire 800 - (2) 9 pin ports
FireWire 400 - (1) 6 pin port
USB 2.0/1.1 - (1) 5 pin port

Max Data Transfer Rate

FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)

Format

Pre-formatted for Mac OSX
View instructions on Windows formatting

Macintosh System Requirements

Requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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.

Windows System Requirements

Windows 98SE or later and an available FireWire 400 or USB 2.0/1.1 port.
Windows 2000 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, or FireWire 800/400 port.

Software Included

SoftRAID 4 (SoftRAID 4 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Certain CD creation features will only run on 10.3 or later.)
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
Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Over 1.5GB of Freeware, Shareware, Public domain software installed

Power Supply

4.2A 100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching

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)

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)

MTBF (hours)

More than 300,000 power-on hours

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.

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!

CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

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!

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™

Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which administers 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, Intech SpeedTools is powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.
An $89.95 Value!

SoftRAID 4

All Mercury Elite-AL 800 Mirror RAID Solutions include a FREE, licensed copy of SOFTRAID® from SoftRAID LLC. For Video Professionals, Server Administrators, Publishers, Graphic Designers, and anyone who relies on the integrity of their data! SoftRAID 4 takes your existing hard disks and groups them together to give you more speed, capacity and/or instantaneous backup. No more need of a hardware solution to get RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) protection. Now SoftRAID 4 lets your OS X system have all the benefits of RAID with your own Macintosh and hard disks. An $129.00 Value!