{"id":5794,"date":"2010-06-09T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:37:23","slug":"june-9-200-mercury-makes-its-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/5794-june-9-200-mercury-makes-its-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"June 9, 2000 \u2013 Mercury makes its appearance."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The original OWC Mercury FireWire Drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not many people are aware of it, but today is a pretty special day. On June 9, 2000, OWC introduced it’s first FireWire equippped storage solutions: the OWC Mercury <\/strong>and OWC Mercury Plus<\/strong>, which featured 5400 and 7200rpm drives, respectively.<\/p>\n

Of course the Mercury series of drives didn\u2019t stop there. As all good things do, it evolved and grew over time. After the Mercury and Mercury Plus came the Mercury Elite <\/strong>and the Mercury Elite Pro <\/strong>(a line that lives on as the Mercury Elite Pro Classic<\/a><\/strong>). Those lines saw the addition of FireWire 800 as the new high-speed connection.<\/p>\n

Then, came the Mercury Elite-AL Pro<\/a><\/strong>, which were closely followed by the Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID <\/a><\/strong>models. The most recent addition to the OWC Mercury family of desktop drives is, of course, the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2<\/a><\/strong>. All these drives not only feature FireWire and FireWire 800 interfaces, but also have USB 2.0 and eSATA ports available for wider flexibility in connecting to your computer.<\/p>\n

Over these 10 years of high-performance, high-quality, FireWire equipped external storage solutions, OWC has <\/strong>consistently <\/strong><\/em>offered the best value in external storage<\/strong>, and the current batch of Mercury desktop drives keeps that tradition with features like:<\/p>\n