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500GB + 500GB OWC Mercury Elite PRO 800 MIRROR RAID Dual Drive 7200RPM FireWire 800/400/USB 2.0 Oxford 934 Storage Solution w/32MB Data Buffer(16MB Per HD). All Cables, SoftRAID, Prosoft Data Backup 3, NovaBACKUP, Intech SpeedTools Incl. 3yr Warranty (ME8SRM500G32) This item qualifies for the ProSoft Drive Genius Special, only $29 - That's 70% off retail! Offer will be shown in basket once this item is added.	Same Day	$349.99
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OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID

500GB Triple Interface Mirrored RAID

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

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

Outstanding Features

Superb Redundancy

The OWC Mercury Elite Pro MIRROR RAID 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!
NOTE: SoftRAID 4 is an OS X system program only. For PC use we highly suggest the Guardian MAXimus HardWare RAID-1 data redundant solutions.

High Performance

The High-Speed Oxford 946 FireWire 800/USB 2.0 chipset combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available give OWC Mercury Elite 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 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 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 Pro RAID even includes all connecting cables!

Style

Designed to compliment any user's system, the OWC Mercury Elite 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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Includes the Powerful SpeedTools Utility Suite for Mac

The comprehensive Mac utility used by professionals for accurate Mac diagnosis and maintenance. Click the SOFTWARE tab below to learn more »

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

Includes

External OWC Mercury Elite Pro MIRROR 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)
72" High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0 conneting cable (A-B cable)
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

Mercury Elite Pro Dual-Drive Triple Assembly Manual (7.1MB PDF)
Over 1.5GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed
OWC 3 Year Solution Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
Complimentary 6 Month Level 1 Data Recovery

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Product Specifications:

Chipset

Custom Oxford 946 FW400(1394A) FW800(1394B) and USB 2.0 Integrated Chipset

Interfaces Supported

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

RAID Support

The OWC Mercury Elite Pro MIRROR RAID drive is shipped preconfigured as two independent drives, RAIDed together as a Mirror (RAID 1) for redundant backup using the included award-winning SoftRAID 4.

Standard Mechanism

500GB HGST Deskstar 7K1000.D Specifications:

Specifications

Form Factor

3.5″ HDD

Interface

SATA 6.0Gb/s

Capacity¹

500GB

Formatted Capacity²

465GiB

Rotational Speed

7,200 RPM

Cache / Data Buffer

32MB

Manufacturer Model Number

HDS721050DLE630

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

26.1mm (1.027″)

Width (max)

101.6mm (4.0″)

Length (max)

147mm (5.787″)

Weight (typical)

450g (0.992 lbs.)

Bytes per Sector

512

Areal Density

569Gb/in²

Reliability³

Contact Start-Stops

300,000

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

1 per 10¹⁴ bits read

Warranty

3 Year HGST Warranty

Performance

Transfer Rate (Max)

3.0Gb/s

Power

Maximum Start Current, DC

2.0 Amps

Idle Mode

3.7 Watts

Environmental (Operating)

Shock

70 G max at 2ms

Ambient Temperature (°F)

32°F to 140°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

0°C to 60°C

Vibration

0.67 G (5 to 500 Hz)

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

8% to 90%

Altitude

-304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Shock

350 G max at 1ms

Ambient Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 158°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 70°C

Vibration

1.04 G (5 to 500 Hz)

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

5% to 95%

Altitude

-304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

2.5 bels

1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.

2 x 500GB* HGST Deskstar 7K1000.D**

*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

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

Drive Rotation Speed

7200 RPM

Drive Cache Size

64 Megabyte (2 Drives with 32MB 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)
USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
USB 1.1 - 12Mbps (or 1.5MB/sec)

Port/Interface Bootability

FireWire 800: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
FireWire 400: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
USB 2.0: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

Format

Pre-formatted for Mac OSX
View instructions on Windows formatting

Macintosh System Requirements

Requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Including ‘Lion’ 10.7.x .
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.
Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.
USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card.

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 Amp 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)

Product Manual

Mercury Elite Pro Dual-Drive Triple Assembly Manual (7.1MB PDF)

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.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n ME8SRM500G32

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! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution

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!
View detailed software info

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! View detailed software info

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™

Intech 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! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution

SoftRAID 4

All Mercury Elite 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!

OWC 500GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mirrored RAID Mfr P/N: ME8SRM500G32 OWC SKU: OWCME8SRM500G32 Quad Interface Storage Solution 3 Year Warranty Ships: Same Day only $349.99