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OWC Mercury Rack Pro
4.0TB (1.0TB x 4) Four Bay Enterprise Class eSATA Interface JBOD
1U Rack Mount Storage Solution with Removable Drive Trays
  
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Professional Grade performance, capacity, & reliability in an affordable, easy to use solution.
This OWC Mercury Rack Pro Solution consists of four matched Enterprise Class SATA hard drives configured as four independent hard drives. Four independent eSATA ports (requires a four channel eSATA controller card, not included) are used for straight pass-through data transfer for maximum performance up to 300MB per second!
With expandable capacity up to 2.0TB per drive bay for a maximum of 8.0TB, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay 1U Solutions are specifically designed to meet the storage demands of A/V production and data centers. |
Outstanding Features:
Great Performance: A high-speed SATA-II card (not included) combined with the fastest SATA-II Enterprise Class drive mechanisms available give OWC Mercury Rack Pro eSATA 4 Bay 1U Storage Solutions some of the fastest drive transfer rates possible, up to 300 Megabytes Per Second in data read and write per drive! You can even set up your own striped RAID array and increase speeds even further! (Transfer speeds variable depending on the SATA controller card you choose to use - See benchmarks below)
High Reliability: A top-notch design and the best components ensure the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Series is built to last. The included five year warranty backs this up!
Enterprise Class: High-quality Enterprise Class hard drive mechanisms deliver added value and proven reliability in mission-critical, server-class environments. Enterprise class drives aim to deliver massive capacities and cut power consumption in data centers leading to the perfect combination of performance and reliability for servers, storage arrays, video surveillance, and other write-intensive applications.
All connecting cables included: The OWC Mercury Rack Pro eSATA includes all cables you'll need to connect the storage solution to the SATA controller card of your choice - four eSATA cables, and a heavy-duty power cable are included.
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Time Machine ready means that our external hard drives 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. |
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| This OWC Mercury Rack Pro solution includes: |
- External OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay 1U Enclosure with 4 hard drives
- 4x High quality eSATA
connecting cables
- Heavy duty power cable
- 2x Drive carrier release keys
- Owner's Manual
- 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: |
| Chipset: |
None; direct connection between the hard drive and the controller card. |
| Standard Mechanisms: |
4 x 1.0TB Hitachi Deskstar™ E7K1000 Enterprise-Class Hard Drives |
| Drive Interface: |
SATA (Serial ATA) |
| Drive Cache Size: |
128 Megabyte (4 Drives with 32MB (32,788K) cache each) |
| Drive Rotation Speed: |
7200RPM |
| Port Configuration: |
eSATA - 4 ports (1 port for each drive) |
| Max Data Transfer Rate: |
eSATA - 3.0 Gbps (or 300 MB/sec) |
| RAID support: |
JBOD; 4 independent drive channels |
| Format: |
Pre-formatted for Mac OSX as four independent drives.
For instructions on Windows formatting click here. |
Macintosh System
Requirements: |
- Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and Macintosh with eSATA via 3rd party controller card interface, (not included).
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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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| Power Supply |
Built in 100-240v 50/60hz 200W US/International Auto Switching |
| External Case Dimensions: |
19" W x 18" D x 1.7" H
(483mm x 457mm x 43mm) |
| Total Shipping Weight: |
Approximately 19 pounds (8.6kg) |
| Software Included: |
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| 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 (hours): |
1,200,000 |
| Load/Unload Cycles: |
300,000 |
| Warranty: |
OWC 5 Year Enhanced Rack Pro 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 5 Year Rack Pro 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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| 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't need 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 or 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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| Use a custom drive icon |
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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. |
| Rack Mounting Options from Rack Solutions: |
Rack mounts available for both 2 and 4 post rack storage systems.
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| Performance Benchmarks (utilizing HighPoint RocketRaid 4322 RAID Controller Card) |
RAID 0
(Striped)
Test
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eSATA
eSATA
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High Def Video Test Results
AJA System Test
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BlackMagic Performance Test
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RAID 5
(Stripe with Parity)
Test
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eSATA
eSATA
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High Def Video Test Results
AJA System Test
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BlackMagic Performance Test
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Click benchmark images
for larger view |
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