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640GB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro USB 2.0 Complete 7200RPM Solution + w/Built in USB 2.0 Hub. Dual Bay enclosure, includes a convenient USB 2.0 hub, with one port right on the front. W/ Prosoft Data Backup 3, Intech HDST. 3 Year Warranty. (OWCMHU27640G32)

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Drive
USB 2.0 Storage Solution + Powered USB 2.0 Hub

Dual 3.5" SATA drive bays for up to 2.0TB capacity and integrated USB 2.0 powered hub for high performance data storage/backup and device connectivity.


Plenty of room!
With two 3.5" SATA drive bays offering up to 2.0TB of capacity, you'll have plenty of room for storing your files, photos, movies and music!

Convenient
The built-in powered USB 2.0 hub makes integrating the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Drive to your system easy. Its front-mounted port makes it simple to attach your favorite USB drive, digital camera, or music player to your computer.

Reliable
The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Drive's all-metal construction helps protect your data. In addition to offering better physical protection to the drives than plastic, it also allows for easier heat dissipation, keeping your drives cooler and reducing the chances of drive failure due to overheating.

“Time Machine Ready” means that our external hard drives are able to keep an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents under OS X Leopard™.

Go back in time to recover anything with ease!

10.6 Snow Leopard Compatible
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!


System Compatibility
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 USB 2.0 performance.
Windows ME and Later.
Windows ME or later required for USB 2.0 performance.

Product Specifications:

Chipset:

JMICRON 20336

Interfaces Supported:

USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible)

RAID / JBOD Support:

• 2 independent drives
• 1 Large set (JBOD)

Drive Rotation Speed:

7200 RPM

Data Buffer:

32 Megabyte (2 Drives with 16MB (16,384k) cache each)

Port Configuration:

• (1) USB 2.0 High Speed "Type B" (to computer)
• (3) USB 2.0 High Speed "Type A" (to other devices)
    – (2) rear ports
    – (1) front port

Maximum Data
Transfer Rate:

• USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (60MB/sec)
• USB 1.1 - 12Mbps (1.5MB/s)

Macintosh
System Requirements:

USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card. USB 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.2 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:

USB 2.0: Windows system with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI USB 2.0 card. 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:

4.2A 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:

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.

48 Hour Warranty Service

Standard mechanisms:

(2) 320GB Hitachi Deskstar P7K500

Performance Benchmarks

USB

USB benchmark results
USB 2.0

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This OWC Mercury Elite -AL Pro drive includes:

 



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