OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro MIRROR RAID QUAD FW800 Storage Solutions
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 3, 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 chipset combined with the fastest 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-AL Pro RAID series offers (2) FireWire 800(1394B) ports and (1) FireWire 400 (1394A) port for Easy Plug and Play on ANY system with a FireWire Port! OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID even includes both types of 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 drives are being accessed.
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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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From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be
everything you'd hope for and more!
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| Software Included |
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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'tneed to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you. A $59.00 Value! |
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Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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 SoftRAID 3
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 3 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 3 lets your OS X system have all the benefits of RAID with your own Macintosh and hard disks.
An $129.00 Value! |
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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: |
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 3. |
| Drive Rotation Speed: |
7200 RPM |
| Data Buffer: |
64 Megabyte (4 Drives with 16MB (16,384) cache each) |
| Port Configuration:
(per enclosure)
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- FireWire 800 - (2) 9 pin ports
- FireWire 400 - (1) 6 pin port
- USB 2.0 - (1) "A" Type Port
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Maximum Data
Transfer Rate: |
- FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
- FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)
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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.
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| Software Included: |
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| Power Supply: |
4.2A 100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching |
| External Case Dimensions: |
9.0" x 2.9" x 5.3" (229mm x 73mm x 134mm) |
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 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.
For more information about the OWC 3 Year Solution warranty, click here.
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.
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| Standard drive mechanisms: |
4x 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 |
| Other Views (of one drive): |
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| This OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro MIRROR RAID Quad solution includes: |
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