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2.0TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro eSATA Dual Drive (1.0TBx2) 7200RPM External Pro 'RAID READY' Solution. Complete with Prosoft Data Backup, Intech HD Speedtools, NovaStor NovaBackup for PC and all cables. 3 year OWC Solution Warranty. (OWCMESR2.0TB64)

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual
2.0TB eSATA Interface "RAID Ready" Storage Solution

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

This OWC Mercury Elite-AL solution includes everything you need to add a high-speed SATA external storage unit to your computer.

Outstanding Features:

High Performance: Serial ATA is one of the fastest data transfer technologies on the market! Whether you're storing Audio/Video files, Music, Photos, Movies, or backing up your entire system, this affordable RAID external storage device will give you a reliable, high-speed solution for your important files!

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!

All connecting cables included: The OWC Mercury Rack Pro eSATA includes all cables you'll need to hook the storage solution to the SATA controller card of your choice - (4) eSATA cables, and a heavy-duty power cable are included.

 

Time Machine Logo 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 Pro Series has been designed to be everything you would hope for and more!
 
This OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro "RAID Ready" dual hard drive solution includes:
  • OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro "RAID Ready" dual hard drive
  • Two - 36" High Quality Double Shielded eSATA connecting cable (eSATA - eSATA)
  • External AutoSwitching 100/240v 50/60Hz Power Adapter
  • 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:
Bus Interface:
  • eSATA
Chipset:
  • None; direct connection between the hard drive and the controller card.
Standard Mechanisms: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
Drive Interface:

SATA (Serial ATA)

Drive Cache Size:

32 Megabyte (32,788k) per drive

Drive Rotation Speed:

7200RPM

Port Configuration:
  • eSATA - 2 ports
Max Data Transfer Rate:
  • eSATA - 3.0 Gbit/s (or 300 MB/sec)
RAID support: Can be configured as single drives, RAID 0 Striped, or RAID 1 mirrored using software.
Format:

Pre-formatted for Mac OSX as two independent drives.
For instructions on Windows formatting click here.

Macintosh System
Requirements:
  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and two available eSATA ports.
Windows System
Requirements:
  • Windows 2000 or later and two available eSATA ports.
Power Supply

2A 100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching - For replacement power supply click here.

External Case Dimensions: 1.5 in (W) x 9 in (D) x 5.5 in (H)
Total Shipping Weight: Approximately 2.7 pounds (1.2kg)
Software Included:
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) 70G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS
Vibration: (operating) 1.0G (5 - 300Hz)
(non-operating) 5.0G (5 - 500Hz)
MTBF (hours): 1,200,000
Load/Unload Cycles: 300,000
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 Logo 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!
Intech Speed Tools logoIntech Speed Tools logo
Carbon Copy Cloner logo 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 and later. A $49.95 Value!
 
Intech Speed Tools logo 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!
 
Use a custom drive icon

Every OWC drive ships with a custom drive icon to help differentiate it from your other Firewire and USB devices.

Get all the custom icons for OWC and NewerTech drive solutions here, as well as some original Time Machine icons.

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