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4.0TB 7200RPM OWC Mercury Elite-AL PRO QUAD Dual Drive eSATA/FireWire 800/400+USB2.0 Oxford 936 Storage Solution w/64MB Data Buffer(32MB per HD). All Cables Included, Prosoft Data Backup 3, NovaBACKUP, Intech Speed Tools Included. 3yr Warranty. (OWCME8Q7T40HB64) Special Offer: Buy Prosoft Drive Genius v2.2.x(Latest) for only $29 with this qualifying storage item, That's 70% Off Retail! Offer will be shown in basket once this item is added.	Same Day	$499.99

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID
4.0TB Quad Interface eSATA/FW800/FW400/USB 2.0 & 1.1 Storage Solution

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

Outstanding Features:

High Performance: The High-Speed Oxford 936 eSATA / FireWire 800/400 & USB 2.0 chipset combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available give Mercury Elite Pro -AL RAID Solutions some of the fastest single drive transfer rates possible, even exceeding 120 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 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 (1) eSATA port, (2) FireWire 800(1394B) ports, (1) FireWire 400 (1394A) port and 1 USB 2.0 port for Easy Plug and Play on virtually ANY system! Even the cables are included!

Style: Designed to compliment any user's system, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro was created in mind with the Mac Pro 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.

Time Machine ready means that our external hard drives keep an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents 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!

This OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro drive includes:

4TB (4000GB) External OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID Hard 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 connecting cable (A-B cable)
External AutoSwitching 100/240v 50/60Hz Power Adapter
Backup and Utility Software CD
- Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
- NovaStor NovaBACKUP® for Windows 2000 or later
- Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6 - X only)
- Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Over 1GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed

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Product Specifications:

Chipset:

Custom Oxford 936 eSATA / FW800 (1394B) / FW400 (1394A) and USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible) Chipset

Standard Mechanism:

Two x 2.0TB Hitachi Deskstar™ 7K2000

Drive Interface:

SATA (Serial ATA)

Drive Cache Size:

64 Megabyte (2 Drives with 32MB (32,768k) cache each)

Drive Rotation Speed:

7200RPM

Port Configuration:

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

RAID / JBOD Support:

RAID 0 "Stripe"

Maximum Data Transfer Rate:

eSATA - 3.0 Gbit/s (or 300 MB/sec)
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))

Port/Interface Bootability:

Can I use this solution as external startup drive?

Boot via eSATA: Not Supported
Boot via FireWire 400: Yes - Click for more info
Boot via FireWire 800: Yes - Click for more info
Boot via USB2: Yes - Click for more info

Format:

Pre-formatted for Mac OSX
For instructions on Windows formatting click here.

Macintosh System
Requirements:

Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, 10.0.x or later and an available USB 1.1 or FireWire 400 port.
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, FireWire 800/400 port, or eSATA port.

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, FireWire 800 port.
NOTE: Master Boot Record has a 2TB limit per-volume limit. Because of this, you must format the solution using GPT in Windows. GPT format is only supported by Windows XP 64-bit Edition or later. GPT format will not work with XP 32-bit or older Windows operating systems. Only Vista systems with EFI can boot from GPT partitions.

ProTools Compatible:

Yes.

OWC recommends 7200RPM Drive Rotation Speed using FW800 & eSATA connections

Recommended eSATA Cards:
Cards that OWC has tested and
qualified for the Mercury Elite-AL Pro

eSATA Extender Cables for Mac Pro
	Newer Technology eSATA Extender Cable Adapter for Mac Pro (NWTMPQXES2)	PRICE: $24.95 SHIPS: Same Day

PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops and Towers
	Other World Computing 2 port PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter - for Mac Pro, G5 PCIe systems. (OWCPCIESATA2)	PRICE: $47.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Sonnet Technology Tempo SATA E2P Serial ATA Host Adapter Card (STITSATAIIE2P)	PRICE: $48.97 SHIPS: Same Day
	CalDigit FASTA-2e 2 port PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter (CDGFASTA2E)	PRICE: $67.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Firmtek Seritek/2SE2-E PCI Express (PCIe) Serial ATA Adapter (FTKSATA2SE2E)	PRICE: $99.95 SHIPS: Same Day
	DAT Optic PCIe 8x 4 Channel eSATA host adapter (DOIESATAPCIE8)	PRICE: $167.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 PCI-Express eSATA 4 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRR2314)	PRICE: $195.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4E Four-Port External PCI-Express Host Adapter. (FTKSATA2ME4E)	PRICE: $198.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Sonnet Tempo SATA E4P Serial ATA Host Adapter for PCI Express (STITSATAIIE4P)	PRICE: $267.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2522 PCI-Express x8 eSATA 2 Port mini SAS RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID2522)	PRICE: $392.99 SHIPS: 1 Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 3522 PCI-Express x8 mini-SAS 2 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID3522)	PRICE: $579.99 SHIPS: Same Day

Power Supply:

5Amp 100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching - For replacement power supply click here.

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)

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
Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Over 1.5GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed

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) .67G (5 - 500Hz) (non-operating) 1.04G (5 - 500Hz)

Load / Unload Cycles:

300,000

MTBF:

1,200,000

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.

Software Included

	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!

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!

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!

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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