Name: 2.0TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID Dual Drive Quad Interface Performance RAID Enterprise Class 7200RPM Storage Solution with eSATA, FW800, FW400, USB 2.0
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCME8Q7T20TE64
Price: 399.99 USD
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Rating: 5.00 (2 reviews)

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OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID "Quad"
eSATA/FW800/400 & USB 2.0
Enterprise-Class Storage Solutions

High Performance, High Reliability, High Portability, and Style
are standard for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID Series!

"it's a solid choice..."

Dual Bay Enclosure Outstanding Features:

High Performance: The High-Speed Oxford 936 eSATA / FireWire 800/400 & USB 2.0 chipset combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available give Mercury Elite Pro RAID Solutions some of the fastest single drive transfer rates possible, even exceeding 120 Megabytes Per Second!

High Reliability: A Top-Notch Design and the Best Components ensure the Mercury Elite Pro Series is Built to Last. The OWC Mercury Elite Pro offers balanced power and performance for desktop computing Utilizing a Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and performance making it an ideal solution for power-conscious enterprises. Leveraging seventh- generation power management technology, as well as power-saving innovations pioneered on the popular 2.5-inch line of notebook hard drives from Hitachi, this new breed of drive delivers best-in-class power management and thermal emissions to help manufacturers meet energy compliance targets and extend drive life.!

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.

High Portability: The Compact and Shock Resistant Design has the Mercury Elite Series going places! In addition, the OWC Mercury Elite 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 Elite Pro RAID even includes all types of cables!

Style: Designed to compliment any user's system, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID was created in mind with the Power Macintosh G5 system as a starting point. As the pictures show, it's a fine storage solution for any computer. Also, a blue activity LED compliments the design recessed behind the front grille showing when your drive is being accessed.

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

	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.

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!

All OWC Mercury FireWire hard drives are fully compatible with these systems

Mac OS X 10.0.x and later - including the latest 10.5.x Leopard™, Mac OS 8.6 and Later.

Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later required for FW800 or eSATA Operation.

Windows ME and Later.

Windows 2000 or later required for FW800 or eSATA Operation.

Product Specifications:

Chipset:

Custom Oxford 936 eSATA / FW800 (1394B) / FW400(1394A) and USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible) Chipset

Interfaces Supported:

eSATA (SATA-II)
FireWire 800 (1394B)
FireWire 400 (1394A)
USB 2.0 (1.1 Backwards compatible)

*Recommended configurations supported:

RAID 0 Striping for maximum performance requires two identical Hard Drives.(As shipped from OWC)
Non-RAID Span mode combines any two drives to give a single volume of combined total drive capacity.
RAID 1 also supported, but we strongly recommend the NewerTech Guardian MAXimus for maximum RAID 1 performance requirements.

Drive Rotation Speed:

7200 RPM

Data Buffer:

64 Megabyte (2 Drives with 32MB (32,768k) cache each)

Port Configuration:

eSATA - (1) eSATA port
FireWire 800 - (2) 9 pin ports
FireWire 400 - (1) 6 pin port
USB 2.0 - (1) "A" port

Maximum Data
Transfer Rate:

eSATA - SATA-II (or 300MB/sec)
FireWire 800 - 800Mbps (or 100MB/sec)
FireWire 400 - 400Mbps (or 50MB/sec)
USB 2.0 - 480Mbps (or 60MB/sec)

Macintosh System
Requirements:

Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, 10.0.x or later and an available USB 1.1 or FireWire 400 port.
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, FireWire 800/400 port, or eSATA port.

Windows System
Requirements:

Windows 98SE or later and an available FireWire 400 or USB 2.0/1.1 port.
Windows 2000 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, FireWire 800/400, or eSATA port.

Software Included:

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

eSATA Extender Cables for Mac Pro
	Newer Technology eSATA Extender Cable Adapter for Mac Pro (NWTMPQXES2)	PRICE: $5.88 SHIPS: Same Day

PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops and Towers
	Sonnet Technology Tempo SATA E2P Serial ATA Host Adapter Card (STITSATAIIE2P)	PRICE: $19.00 SHIPS: Sold Out
	NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card (NWTMXPCIE6GS2)	PRICE: $39.99 SHIPS: Sold Out
	CalDigit FASTA-2e 2 port PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter (CDGFASTA2E)	PRICE: $67.99 SHIPS: Sold Out
	Firmtek Seritek/2SE2-E PCI Express (PCIe) Serial ATA Adapter (FTKSATA2SE2E)	PRICE: $99.00 SHIPS: 24-48 hrs
	NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID capable controller card with port multiplier. (NWTMXPCIE6GRS)	PRICE: $84.99 SHIPS: 25 Days
	DAT Optic PCIe 8x 4 Channel eSATA host adapter (DOIESATAPCIE8)	PRICE: $157.99 SHIPS: Sold Out
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 PCI-Express eSATA 4 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRR2314)	PRICE: $175.00 SHIPS: Sold Out
	FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4E Four-Port External PCI-Express Host Adapter. (FTKSATA2ME4E)	PRICE: $195.00 SHIPS: Sold Out
	Sonnet Tempo SATA E4P Serial ATA Host Adapter for PCI Express (STITSATAIIE4P)	PRICE: $267.99 SHIPS: Sold Out
	HighPoint RocketRaid 2522 PCI-Express x8 eSATA 2 Port mini SAS RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID2522)	PRICE: $392.99 SHIPS: Sold Out
	HighPoint RocketRaid 3522 PCI-Express x8 mini-SAS 2 Port RAID Controller Card (HPTRRAID3522)	PRICE: $579.99 SHIPS: Sold Out

Power Supply:

5A 100-240v 50/60hz US/International Auto Switching

External Case Dimensions:

9.0" x 2.9" x 5.3" (229mm x 73mm x 134mm)

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:

Targeted 1.2 million hours MTBF

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.