{"id":1889,"date":"2009-09-02T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:40:21","slug":"another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1889-another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Serving of Price Reductions &#8211; Hold the Mystery Meat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1890\" title=\"lunchlady\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lunchlady.png\" alt=\"lunchlady\" width=\"285\" height=\"421\" \/>Another week has gone by, and here we are with another drop in prices on an OWC Storage Solution.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, we\u2019re dropping the prices on the<a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/1394\/USB\/EliteAL\/PerformanceRAID\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Mercury Elite-AL Pro Performance 7200RPM RAID \u201cQuad Interface\u201d<\/a>. I could go on and on about this model RAID, but the specifications are almost identical to <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1838-elite-al-pro-raid-prices-drop-even-further\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cTriple Interface\u201d version<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1838-elite-al-pro-raid-prices-drop-even-further\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1838-elite-al-pro-raid-prices-drop-even-further\" target=\"_blank\">we featured last week<\/a>, with the exception of this singular difference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Performance 7200RPM RAID \u201cQuad Interface\u201d features <strong>four <\/strong>ways you can connect it to your computer, hence the name. Whether you want to connect via eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 or USB 2.0, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Performance 7200RPM RAID \u201cQuad Interface\u201d can oblige, offering connection speeds of up to 300MB\/s via eSATA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other than this difference, all the features &#8211; the Oxford-based bridge, full bootability, all the cables &amp; backup software, the industry-leading 3-year warranty, etc. &#8211; you can find on the \u201cTriple Interface\u201d model, you can find on the \u201cQuad Interface\u201d model.<\/p>\n<p>So, without any further ado, let\u2019s get to the prices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7640GB32\/\" target=\"_blank\">640GB 7200RPM with 32MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; $199.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T10GB32\/\" target=\"_blank\">1.0TB 7200RPM with 32MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; $219.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T15GB64\/\" target=\"_blank\">1.5TB 7200RPM with 64MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; $279.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T20GS32\/\" target=\"_blank\">2.0TB 7200RPM with 32MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; $294.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T20GB64\/\" target=\"_blank\">2.0TB 7200RPM with 64MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; <strong>NOW $307.99<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T20TE64\/\" target=\"_blank\">2.0TB \u201cEnterprise Class\u201d 7200RPM w\/64MB Buffer<\/a> &#8211; <strong>NOW $387.99<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T30GB64\/\" target=\"_blank\">3.0TB 7200RPM with 64MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; <strong>NOW $407.99<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/item\/Other%20World%20Computing\/ME8Q7T40GB64\/\" target=\"_blank\">4.0TB GreenPower2\u00a0 64MB of Data Buffer<\/a> &#8211; <strong>NOW $619.99<\/strong> (that&#8217;s a $100 price drop!)<\/li>\n<li>OWC Elite-AL Pro RAID SATA HD x 2 enclosure kits are also available without drives as \u2018Add Your Own Hard Drives Kits\u2019 starting from $104.99, and have user configurable options for different RAID and non-RAID modes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may be wondering <em>how <\/em>we can keep offering these price drops on our enclosures. Well&#8230; that I can\u2019t tell you. But what I can <em>guarantee <\/em>you is that we\u2019re <em>not <\/em>skimping on the quality that we\u2019ve put in all our Storage Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/893-its-whats-inside-that-counts\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned in April<\/a>, OWC puts a lot of attention into our Storage Solutions, right down to the little details. That means you still get all the cables you need for the solution, that you still get great backup software bundled in, and there are <em>never <\/em>any \u201cmystery meat,\u201d generic drive mechanisms in our enclosures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week has gone by, and here we are with another drop in prices on an OWC Storage Solution. This time around, we\u2019re dropping the prices on the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Performance 7200RPM RAID \u201cQuad Interface\u201d. I could go on and on about this model RAID, but the specifications are almost identical to the \u201cTriple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[339,5],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-spotlight","category-special-owc-deals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another Serving of Price Reductions - Hold the Mystery Meat.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another week has gone by, and here we are with another drop in prices on an OWC Stoarge Solution.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1889-another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Serving of Price Reductions - Hold the Mystery Meat.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another week has gone by, and here we are with another drop in prices on an OWC Stoarge Solution.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1889-another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rocket Yard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-02T23:48:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-05-22T18:40:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lunchlady.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OWC Chris S.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OWC Chris S.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1889-another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1889-another-serving-of-price-reductions-hold-the-mystery-meat\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OWC Chris S.\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5c0041c3c31fa112eb41d2c150a858f1\"},\"headline\":\"Another Serving of Price Reductions &#8211; 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