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8.0TB OWC Mercury Rack Pro eSATA,FireWire 800+USB 2.0 1U 4-Bay Enterprise SATA HD RAID Solution with selectable RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID Mode, NRAID Span Options. Oxford 936 chipset, 5 Year Warranty. (OWMRP936QE8.0T) Special Offer: Buy Prosoft Drive Genius v2.2.x(Latest) for only $29 with this qualifying storage item, That's 70% Off Retail! Offer will be shown in basket once this item is added.	Same Day	$1,999.99

8.0TB OWC Mercury Rack Pro QUAD Interface - eSATA/FW800+400/USB 2.0
1U Stripe 4 Bay Performance Enterprise Class Storage Solutions with selectable RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID Mode, NRAID Span Options.
OWC affordability, reliability, and ease of use in a single 1U rack space.

Hardware Striped RAID-0 SATA drive arrays with a maximum capacity of 8.0TB!:

OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID-0 storage solutions are hardware striped RAID–0 SATA drive arrays for high-performance applications.

The OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID-0 consists of 4 matched Enterprise Class SATA hard drives up to 7200RPM; RAIDed together in pairs (a RAID-0 Stripe) for maximum performance.

Specifically designed to meet the performance demands of video and audio production, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay RAID-0 solution provides data transfer rates of over 240 Megabytes per second! Using the highest capacity Enterprise Class SATA hard drive mechanisms available, and offering Plug & Play simplicity, the possibilities are endless!

	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.

Outstanding Features:

High Performance: The High-Speed Oxford 936 eSATA, FireWire 800 (1394B), FireWire 400 (1394A), & USB 2.0 chipset combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available give OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID 4 Bay storage solutions some of the fastest drive transfer rates possible with FireWire 800 (1394B) exceeding 240 Megabytes per second in data read and write from the storage solution!

High Reliability: A Top-Notch design and the best components ensure the OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID series is built to last. The included Five Year warranty backs this up!

Enterprise Class: The Deskstar E7K1000 delivers value to the enterprise 7200 RPM performance and innovative technologies like Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS). To mitigate any adverse impact on system performance, Hitachi-patented RVS technology works to counteract this disturbance ensuring drive performance and data integrity. The drive also has a targeted 1.2 million hours MTBF rating and provides the industry’s most comprehensive 5-year warranty.

Ports for all systems: The OWC Mercury Rack Pro series offers maximum capacity in the smallest footprint possible! In addition, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID series offers (1) eSATA port, (2) FireWire 800 (1394B) ports, (1) FireWire 400 (1394A) port, and 1 USB 2.0 port for Easy Plug and Play on ANY system! The OWC Mercury Rack Pro RAID even includes all types of cables!

Four Hot Swappable Hard Drive Bays: Enables easy configuration of up to 8.0TB of high performance and/or redundant storage capacity.

From day one, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!

Software Included

	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!

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 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® 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!

Product Specifications:

Chipset:

Custom Oxford 936QSE eSATA, FireWire 800 (1394B) and USB 2.0 Chipset

Interfaces Supported:

eSATA (SATA-II)
FireWire 800 (1394B)
FireWire 400 (1394A)
USB 2.0

RAID / JBOD Support:

RAID 0,1,5,10 Hardware RAID Mode, and NRAID Span Options

Drive Rotation Speed:

5400-7200RPM Variable with Intellipower, a finely-tuned balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms designed to deliver both significant power savings and solid performance.

Data Buffer:

64MB per drive, 256MB total for the solution

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

Maximum Data
Transfer Rate:

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)

Macintosh System
Requirements:

eSATA: Macintosh with eSATA PCI Interface card. eSATA requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
FireWire 800 (1394B): Macintosh with FireWire 800 (1394B) interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 800 (1394B) card. FireWire 800 (1394B) requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
FireWire 400 (1394A): Macintosh with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via 3rd party PCI FireWire 400 card. FireWire 400 requires Mac OS 8.6 or later.
USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 3rd party PCI FireWire interface card running Mac OS 10.1 or later. USB 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later.

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.

Recommended eSATA Cards:
Cards that OWC has tested and
qualified for the Rack Pro

PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops and Towers
	Other World Computing 2 port PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter - for Mac Pro, G5 PCIe systems. (OWCPCIESATA2)	PRICE: $47.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Sonnet Technology Tempo SATA E2P Serial ATA Host Adapter Card (STITSATAIIE2P)	PRICE: $48.97 SHIPS: Same Day
	CalDigit FASTA-2e 2 port PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter (CDGFASTA2E)	PRICE: $67.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Firmtek Seritek/2SE2-E PCI Express (PCIe) Serial ATA Adapter (FTKSATA2SE2E)	PRICE: $99.95 SHIPS: Same Day
	DAT Optic PCIe 8x 4 Channel eSATA host adapter (DOIESATAPCIE8)	PRICE: $167.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 PCI-Express eSATA 4 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRR2314)	PRICE: $195.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4E Four-Port External PCI-Express Host Adapter. (FTKSATA2ME4E)	PRICE: $198.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	Sonnet Tempo SATA E4P Serial ATA Host Adapter for PCI Express (STITSATAIIE4P)*	PRICE: $267.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2522 PCI-Express x8 eSATA 2 Port mini SAS RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID2522)	PRICE: $392.99 SHIPS: 1 Day
	HighPoint RocketRaid 3522 PCI-Express x8 mini-SAS 2 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID3522)	PRICE: $579.99 SHIPS: Same Day

PCI for Desktops and Towers
	FirmTek SeriTek/2SE4 Four-Port External PCI-X Host Adapter W/ Port Multiplier (FTKSATA2SE4)	PRICE: $199.00 SHIPS: Same Day

ExpressCard/34 for Laptops
	OWC ExpressCard/34 eSATA SATA I/II ExpressCard/34 Adapter (OWCEXP34SATA2P1)	PRICE: $19.99 SHIPS: Same Day
	APIOTEK EXTREME Dual eSATA SATA I/II Express Card 34 Adapter (APIEC0003D)	PRICE: $39.99 SHIPS: Same Day
* Note: there are known issues using this card with RAID 5 mode. User may experience drive dismounting when a drive failure occurs. Replacing with a new drive, the Rack Pro will rebuild the newly installed drive with no loss of data.

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)
Carbon Copy Cloner© for Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Power Supply:

Input: 100V~240V
Output: 50~60Hz 200W (Max.)

External Case Dimensions:

19" W x 18" D x 1.7" H

Drive Weight
(no accessories):

Approximately 19 pounds

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:

5-year Enhanced Solution Warranty

For full Warranty information, please click here.

Standard mechanisms:

4 x 2.0TB Western Digital RE4-GP

Performance Benchmarks

eSATA

eSATA

FireWire

FireWire 800 (1394B)

USB

USB 2.0

High Def Video Test Results

AJA System Test

FireWire 400 (1394A)

BlackMagic Performance Test

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The OWC Mercury Rack Pro includes:

External OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay 1U External Hard Drive
36" High Quality Double Shielded eSATA connecting cable
36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 (1394B) connecting cable (9-9 Pin cable)
36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 400 (1394A) connecting cable (6-6 Pin cable)
36" High Quality Double Shielded USB 2.0 conneting cable (A-B cable)
Heavy Duty Power Cable
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)

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