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2.0TB OWC Mercury Elite 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. (MESR2.0TB64) $10.00 Instant Rebate available from OWC with purchases made between 01/21/2010 and 12/31/2021 when you purchase 1 or more qualifying items, limit 1. Must purchase with: MXPCIE6GS2 ---- Additional Offer also available: ---- Special Offer: Buy Prosoft Drive Genius v3 for only $35 with this qualifying storage item, That's 60% Off Retail! Offer will be shown in basket once this item is added.	Same Day	$289.99
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OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual

2.0TB Dual Bay SATA I/II to eSATA

Mac / PC / eSATA

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

Outstanding Features

High Performance

Serial ATA is one of the fastest data transfer technologies on the market! Perfect for digital audio & video, it's THE solution you need for massive storage and ultimate speed!

High Reliability

A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the Mercury Elite Pro AL- Series is Built to Last.

Style

Designed to complement any user's system, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro 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.

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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 Dual SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
(2) 1 Meter eSATA - eSATA connecting cables
4A External AutoSwitching 100/240v 50/60Hz Power Adapter - Perfect for HUGE drives!
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

Mercury Elite Pro Dual-Drive eSATA Assembly Manual (4.2MB 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:

Bus Interface

eSATA

Chipset

None; direct connection between the hard drive and the controller card.

Standard Mechanism

1.0TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D Specifications:

Specifications

Form Factor

3.5″ HDD

Interface

SATA 6.0Gb/s

Capacity¹

1.0TB

Formatted Capacity²

931GiB

Rotational Speed

7,200 RPM

Cache / Data Buffer

32MB

Manufacturer Model Number

HDS721010DLE630

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 Hitachi 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 1.0TB* Hitachi 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 Cache Size

32 Megabyte (32,788k) per drive

Drive Rotation Speed

7200RPM

Port Configuration

2 eSATA Ports

Max Data Transfer Rate

eSATA - 6.0 Gbit/s (or 500 MB/sec)

RAID support

Comes configured as two independent drives
RAID 0 (Striped) or RAID 1 (Mirrored) can be setup using
- Software such as Disk Utility or SoftRAID
- Hardware using a RAID card (sold separately)

Port/Interface Bootability

eSATA: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

Format

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

Software Included

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

Macintosh System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and including 'Lion' 10.7.x and two available eSATA ports.
Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

Windows System Requirements

Windows 2000 or later and two available eSATA ports.

Recommended eSATA Cards

Cards that OWC has tested and qualified for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops

NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Card $47.99

NewerTech MAXPower 6G eSATA RAID card w/ port multiplier. $69.99

Power Supply

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

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 eSATA Assembly Manual (4.2MB 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

70G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS

Vibration

(operating) 1.0G (5 - 300Hz)
(non-operating) 5.0G (5 - 500Hz)

MTBF (hours)

More than 1,200,000 power-on hours

Load/Unload Cycles

50,000

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.

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 MESR2.0TB64

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

Benchmarks

Click any of the benchmarks below to view the results.

RAID 0 (Striped) Test Results (utilizing DAT Optic eSATA PCIe8 RAID Controller Card)

RAID 1 (Mirrored) Test Results (utilizing DAT Optic eSATA PCIe8 RAID Controller Card)

OWC 2.0TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Bay Mfr P/N: MESR2.0TB64 OWC SKU: OWCMESR2.0TB64 Dual Bay SATA I/II to eSATA (2 Ports) 3 Year Warranty Ships: Same Day only $289.99