OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID FW800/400 & USB 2.0 Storage Solutions

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 924 FireWire 800/400 & 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 Two 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, (1) FireWire 400 (1394A) port and 1 USB 2.0 port for Easy Plug and Play on ANY system! The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID even includes all 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 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 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!

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!

All OWC Mercury FireWire hard drives are fully compatible with these systems
	Apple OS X 10.1.x and later - including the latest 10.5.x Leopard, 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.

Product Specifications:
Chipset:	Custom Oxford 924 FW800 (1394B) / FW400(1394A) and USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible) Chipset
Interfaces Supported:	FireWire 800 (1394B) FireWire 400 (1394A) USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible)
RAID / JBOD Support:	RAID 0 Stripe
Drive Rotation Speed:	7200 RPM
Data Buffer:	32 Megabyte (2 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) "A" port
Maximum Data Transfer Rate:	FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec) FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec) USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
Macintosh System Requirements:	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. 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 800: Windows system with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 card. FireWire 800 requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP. 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 3rd party PCI FireWire interface card running Mac OS 10.1 or later. 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.
Software Included:	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)
Power Supply:	100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching
External Case Dimensions:	9.3" x 2.8" x 5.6" (237mm x 72mm x 142mm)
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:	Two Year Repair/Replacement Warranty- In addition to OWC's Warranty, the hard drive mechanisms inside this solution have an additional 1-year warranty direct with the manufacturer. Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion OWC's 2 year Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.
Standard mechanisms:	Hitachi DeskStar P7K500

Performance Benchmarks Tested using a Dual 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 (FW800) running Mac OS X 10.4.11
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This OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro drive includes:
External OWC Mercury Elite 800 Pro 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 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) Over 1GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software installed

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