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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 eSATA,FireWire 800+USB 2.0 4-Bay SATA Desktop RAID Storage Enclosure with selectable RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID, NRAID Span Options. Add your own drives! Supports 2TB drive mechanisms. Oxford 936 chipset, 1 Year Warranty (OWCMEQX2KIT0GB)

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2

0GB Quad Interface 4 Bay Professional
Grade Performance RAID Kit

Mac / PC / eSATA / FireWire 800 / FireWire 400 / USB 2.0 & 1.1
  • Mac
  • PC
  • eSATA
  • FireWire 800/400
  • USB
The Ultimate Blend of Professional
Performance and Convenience
Install your own four 3.5″ Serial ATA (SATA I/II) hard disk drives into this brushed aluminum enclosure with Hardware RAID setting flexibility and experience up to 300MB/s data transfer speed for high performance data storage and redundancy.
User Selectable Hardware RAID Settings
Thanks to a front panel selector switch, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 enables easy configuration of the Hardware RAID settings - NRAID, 0, 1, 5, 10 - so you can select the best combination of speed, capacity, redundancy, or any combination of the three.
Re-builds without a computer connection!
RAID 1, 5, 10 enables you to keep working even if one drive fails!
NRAID (Span)
Combines capacity of two or more drives of the same size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume. Will also combine the capacity of varying size drives based on the lowest capacity drive in the set.
RAID 0 (Stripe)
Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.
RAID 1 (Mirror)
Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.
RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)
Data is Striped (RAID 0) while incorporating redundancy over three or more drives for the best combination of speed, capacity, and redundancy. The "Quad Interface" 4 Bay Enterprise Class Performance RAID Solutions are pre-configured as RAID 5.
RAID 10 (1+0)
Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.
Hard Drive Not Included - Needs 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive
3.5" sata hard drive
OWC NOTE: This drive enclosure requires 3.5″ Serial ATA (SATA) drive mechanisms with the same part number and firmware version for proper RAID mode operation. For recommended hard drives, please click on the product specs tab below. Please make sure that the drives you wish to use with this enclosure are compatible. If you need an enclosure for an ATA/IDE hard drive, click here.
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Time Machine Ready
Time Machine Ready
Keep an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents via Time Machine with OWC drives.
  • Snow Leopard Ready
  • 48-Hours Warranty Service
From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!

Includes

  • Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 "Quad Interface" 4-Bay RAID Solution
  • 39" High Quality Double Shielded eSATA connecting cable
  • 72" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable (9-9 Pin cable)
  • 68" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 400 connecting cable (6-6 Pin cable)
  • 76" High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0/1.1 connecting cable
  • UL listed power cord
  • 2 keys for front panel lock
  • Backup and Utility software CD
    • 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

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

Interfaces Supported

  • eSATA (SATA-II)
  • FireWire 800 (1394B)
  • FireWire 400 (1394A)
  • USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible)

RAID / JBOD Support

  • RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID Mode, and NRAID Span Options
  • Solutions are pre-configured as RAID 5 for optimum speed, protection & capacity

Drive Rotation Speed

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Drive Cache Size

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Qualified Hard Drives

Serial ATA drive models OWC has tested and qualified for use with the Qx2:

A 'recommended' drive is one that, through our extensive and ongoing evaluation process, we've found to have optimum operational characteristics required for demanding RAID applications.

Note: OWC is always testing new drive models and will add additional models as they become available in the market and pass our stringent requirements. Just because a particular drive model is not listed above does not mean you can not use it with the Qx2.

Note: Regardless of drive model used, OWC strongly recommends that all drives used match exactly.

**NOT RECOMMENDED**
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
    including the currently available 1.5TB 7200RPM model p/n ST31500341AS. OWC recommends against use of this drive in the Qx2 Performance RAID solution. If you choose to use this device, it is absolutely essential that all drives have the exact same firmware revision.

Port Configuration

  • eSATA - 1 eSATA port
  • FireWire 800 - (2) 9 pin ports
  • FireWire 400 - (1) 6 pin port
  • USB 2.0 - (1) "A" port

Max 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)

Recommended eSATA Cards

Macintosh System Requirements

  • Minimum Apple G4 processor, 128MB RAM
  • Apple® OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, 10.0.x or later and an available USB 1.1 or FireWire 400 port
  • Apple® 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

  • Minimum Intel Pentium III CPU 500MHz, 128MB RAM
  • 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 800/400, or eSATA port

Software Included

Power Supply

  • Internal US/International AutoSwitching (UL, cUL, CE, TUV approved)
  • Protection: OCP, OVP, Short
  • Input: AC 100-260V, 50Hz/60Hz
  • Output: DC +5V/8.4Amp +12V/6Amp (12V peak current 4Amp/10sec)

External Case Dimensions

  • 9.65″(D) x 5.31″(W) x 6.96″(H)
  • 245.11mm x 134.87mm x 176.78mm

Enclosure Weight (no accessories)

  • Approximately 8.6 pounds (3.9kg)

Operating Environment:

Temperature

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Relative Humidity

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Shock

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Vibration

  • Varies with drive mechanisms installed

Warranty

OWC 1 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 1 Year Solution warranty

Software

Prosoft Macworld 4.5 mice
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!
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
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® 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!
OWC 0GB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 #OWCMEQX2KIT0GB Quad Interface 4 Bay Professional RAID Kit 1 Year Warranty Ships: Same Day only $309.99 Add to Cart
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