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The Ultimate Blend of Professional Performance and Convenience
Four 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA I/II) hard disk drives in a brushed aluminum enclosure with Hardware RAID setting flexibility and 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 varying size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume.
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. |
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| From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more! |
| The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 includes: |
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| Chipset: |
Oxford 936QSE chipset |
| Interfaces Supported: |
- eSATA (SATA-II)
[See Supported eSATA card list below]
- FireWire 800 (1394B)
- FireWire 400 (1394A)
- USB 2.0
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| 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
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| Drive Rotation Speed: |
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| Data Buffer: |
- 32MB per drive, 128MB total for the solution
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| Port Configuration: |
- eSATA - 1 eSATA port
- FireWire 800 (1394B) - (2) 9 pin ports
- FireWire 400 (1394A) - (1) 6 pin port
- USB 2.0 - (1) "A" port
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Maximum Data
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- eSATA - 3.0Gbit (or 300MB/sec)
- FireWire 800 (1394B)
- 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
- USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)
- FireWire 400 (1394A)
- 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)
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| 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
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| Windows System Requirements: |
- Minimum Intel Pentium III CPU 500MHz, 128MB RAM
- eSATA: Windows XP 64-bit, 2003 Server, and all versions of Vista systems with eSATA PCI Interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI eSATA card.
- FireWire 800 (1394B): Windows XP 64-bit, 2003 Server, and all versions of Vista systems with FireWire 800 (1394B) interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 (1394B) card.
- FireWire 400 (1394A): Windows XP 64-bit, 2003 Server, and all versions of Vista systems with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 400 card.
- USB 2.0: Windows XP 64-bit, 2003 Server, and all versions of Vista systems with USB 2.0 3rd party PCI FireWire interface card, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card.
- 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, Windows 2003 Server and Vista. GPT format will not work with XP 32 bit or older Windows operating systems. Only Vista systems with EFI can boot from GPT partitions.
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| Software Included: |
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Recommended eSATA Cards:
Cards that OWC has tested and
qualified for the Qx2 |
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| 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)
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| External Case Dimensions: |
5.31" (W) x 9.65" (D) x 6.96" (H) |
Enclosure Weight
(no accessories): |
Approximately 8.6 pounds (3.9kg) |
| 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) |
| 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 mechanisms: |
4 x 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 |
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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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Performance Benchmarks
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eSATA
eSATA
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FireWire
FireWire 800 (1394B)
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USB
USB 2.0
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High Def Video Test Results
AJA System Test
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FireWire 400 (1394A) |
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BlackMagic Performance Test
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Click benchmark images
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