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    We recommend 16.0TB OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Class 4-Bay SAS 1U Rackmount Solution (Mfr P/N: OWMRPMSS4B16.0E) from Other World Computing for $929.99 as a suitable alternative.

    OWC Mercury Rack Pro

    12.0TB 1U 4 Bay Rack
    Enterprise Class Storage Solution

    External mini-SAS / Mac / PC
    OWC affordability, reliability, and ease of use in a single 1U rack space.
    Need massive amounts of storage?
    The OWC Mercury Rack Pro features a single external mini-SAS interface, to not only reduce cable clutter, but to provide four full channels of data (one per drive) through a single external mini-SAS cable.  It's like having four separate eSATA/SAS cables but in a single package.

    Designed specifically to meet the demands of server, audio production, and video production environments, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro four Bay 1U Solutions provide data transfer rates of up to 24Gb/s data rates¹! Using the highest capacity SATA hard drive mechanisms available, and offering Plug & Play simplicity, the possibilities are endless!

    Note: OWC Mercury Rack Pro solutions do not include rack rails. If rails are required for your rack setup, OWC has them available. Click Here.
    Outstanding Features
    Great Performance
    Using the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available gives the OWC Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS 4 Bay 1 U Solutions a solid, performance focused base.  Adding a high-speed external mini-SAS card (not included) further enhances the OWC Mercury Rack Pro providing  some of the fastest drive transfer rates possible, up to 24Gb/s¹!
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    If your OWC or NewerTech brand product should require service during the warranty coverage period, we are committed to delivering the fastest possible service.


    Upon receipt of your unit, OWC will make every attempt to service it and arrange shipping back to you all within 48 weekday (Monday-Friday) business hours, excluding U.S. national holidays. This warranty service timeframe does not include data recovery attempts, out of stock items/components, or upgrade/product replacements.

    Please allow up to seven additional business days if requesting optional OWC Level 1 Data Recovery services.


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    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.


    OWC and NewerTech storage solutions come fully backed by an Industry-leading 48-hour turnaround time, with the option of complimentary Level 1 Data Recovery service for the first 6 months, plus additional data recovery options available throughout the warranty period, for complete peace of mind confidence. Please note that Level 1 Data Recovery services add additional time, up to one week, to the 48-hour turnaround.


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    High Reliability
    A Top-Notch design using the best components gives the OWC Mercury Rack Pro an industry leading 5 Year OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Limited Warranty and ensures the series is built to last!
    Flexible Form
    The OWC Mercury Rack Pro can easily be converted to a desktop form-factor via a Phillips screwdriver by simply removing the rack ears and installing the included anti-skid, vibration dampening feet.
    From day one, the OWC Mercury Rack Pro Series has been designed to be everything you'd hope for and more!
    Speedtools
    Includes the Powerful SpeedTools Utility Suite for Mac
    The comprehensive Mac utility used by professionals for accurate Mac diagnosis and maintenance. Click the SOFTWARE tab below to learn more »

    Includes

    • (1) OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4 Bay 1U Storage Solution
    • (1) Integrated ROHS, CE, and FCC compliant Power Supply
    • mini-SAS cable (1 meter)
    • (1) Rack Mounting Handles
    • (1) Anti-skid, Vibration Dampening Desktop Mounting Feet
    • (1) Screws for Rack / Desktop Conversion
    • (1) Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS Assembly Manual & User Guide
    • (1) OWC 5 Year Solution Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
    • (1) Complimentary 6 Month Level 1 Data Recovery

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    Product Specifications:

    Interfaces Supported

    • Unit provides one (1) External mini-SAS, supporting up to 24Gb/s
    • Enclosure uses 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives

    RAID / JBOD Support

    • RAID-Ready ² and JBOD; 4 independent drive channels

    Initial Configuration

    • JBOD

    Standard Mechanism

      3.0TB Toshiba MG03ACAxxx Specifications:

      Specifications

      Form Factor
      3.5″ HDD
      Interface
      SATA 6.0Gb/s
      Capacity1
      3.0TB
      Formatted Capacity2
      2790GiB
      Rotational Speed
      7,200 RPM
      Cache / Data Buffer
      64MB
      Manufacturer Model Number
      MG03ACA300
      Format
      Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

      Physical

      Height (max)
      26.1mm (1.027″)
      Width (max)
      101.6mm (4.0″)
      Length (max)
      147mm (5.787″)
      Weight (typical)
      720g (1.587 lbs.)
      Bytes per Sector
      512

      Reliability3

      MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
      1,200,000 hours
      Warranty
      5 Year Warranty

      Performance

      Transfer Rate (Max)
      6.0Gb/s

      Power

      Maximum Start Current, DC
      2.0 Amps
      Idle Mode
      3.7 Watts

      Environmental (Operating)

      Shock
      70 G max at 2ms
      Ambient Temperature (°F)
      32°F to 140°F
      Ambient Temperature (°C)
      0°C to 60°C
      Vibration
      0.75 G (5 to 500 Hz)
      Relative Humidity (non-condensing)
      8% to 90%
      Altitude
      -304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

      Environmental (Non-Operating)

      Shock
      300 G max at 1ms
      Ambient Temperature (°F)
      -40°F to 158°F
      Ambient Temperature (°C)
      -40°C to 70°C
      Vibration
      1.04 G (5 to 500 Hz)
      Relative Humidity (non-condensing)
      5% to 95%
      Altitude
      -304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

      Acoustics

      Idle (Typical)
      3.1 bels
      1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
      2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
      3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
    • 4 x 3.0TB* Toshiba MG03ACA300 Hard Disk Drives**

    • *1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

      **OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.

    Drive Rotation Speed

    • 7200 RPM

    Drive Cache Size

    • 64MB per drive, 256MB total for the solution

    Port Configuration

    • external mini-SAS up to 24Gb/s

    Format

    Max Data Transfer Rate

    • external mini-SAS – up to 24Gb/s (or 2400 MB/sec)

    Recommended external mini-SAS Cards

    Macintosh System Requirements

    • Mini-SAS cable included: 1M mini-SAS cable (included) is required for use with SATA/SAS 6Gb/s drives due to signal integrity requirements, longer cable lengths are not supported. When using SATA/SAS 3Gb/s drives, longer cable lengths (sold separately) can be used and are available here.
    • external mini-SAS: Macintosh with external mini-SAS via 3rd party controller card interface, (not included). external mini-SAS requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Including 'Mavericks' 10.9.x.
    • Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

    Windows System Requirements

    • Mini-SAS cable included: 1M mini-SAS cable (included) is required for use with SATA/SAS 6Gb/s drives due to signal integrity requirements, longer cable lengths are not supported. When using SATA/SAS 3Gb/s drives, longer cable lengths (sold separately) can be used and are available here.
    • external mini-SAS: Windows with external mini-SAS via 3rd party controller card interface, (not included). external mini-SAS requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.

    Software Included

    Cooling

    • Three (3) 4cm Brushless, whisper quiet, constant speed fans

    Power Supply

    • UL Listed U.S./International Adjustable 100 ~ 240v, 50/60Hz, 200W (Max.) input Power Supply (power cables for International use sold separately).

    External Case Dimensions

    • 11.9"(D) x 17.3"(W) x 1.7"(H)
    • 30.3cm x 44cm x 4.5cm
    • 11.9"(D) x 17.3"(W) x 2.2"(H) (with feet)
    • 30.3cm x 44cm x 5.5cm (with feet)
    • 11.9"D) x 19.2"(W) x 1.7"(H) (with rack mounting handles)
    • 30.3cm x 48.7cm x 4.5cm (with rack mounting handles)

    Enclosure Weight (no accessories)

    • Approximately 10 lbs. (4.5kg)

    Operating Environment:

    Temperature

    • (operating) 5°C – 42°C (41°F – 107°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

    • 65G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS

    Vibration

    • (operating) 1.0G (5 – 300Hz)
    • (non-operating) 5.0G (5 – 500Hz)

    Warranty

    5 Year OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Limited 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.

    View more information about the 5 Year OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Limited Warranty

    Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of the 5 Year OWC Mercury Rack Pro Enterprise Limited Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.

    Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n OWMRPMSS4B12.0E UPC#: 812437021639

    Software

    Prosoft Macworld 4.5 miceProsoft
    Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for 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! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase softwareseparately from solution
    Novastor
    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! View detailed software info
    Intech SpeedTools Utilities
    Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™
    Intech SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls 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, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.
    An $89.95 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution
    About Mac
    "Out of this World... Easy to Set Up, Quiet, and Performed Very Well... Perfect for those Looking for Large Storage Capabilities" - Tom Nelson, About.com- 2.0TB - 1U Quad 4 Bay RAID
    Storage Review Editors Choice
    "Designed with durability and compatiblity in mind, the Rack Pro is one of, if not the strongest and well built, external storage array we have reviewed to date." - Tom Streeter, Storage Review - 2.0TB - 1U Quad 4 Bay RAID
    Tape Op
    "...impressive... designed for the high-performance demands of audio and video production...professional in appearance, performance, and reliability" - Garrett Haines, Tape Op Magazine - 8.0TB 4 Bay 1U Quad 4 Bay RAID

    Customer Ratings

    Write a Review 4.5 / 5 2 out of 2 (100%) reviewers would recommend this product
    Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Alexandria, VA Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months
    Rating: 5/5 Excellent and affordable Raid 5 Storage March 20, 2013 We are using one of these units connected to a MacPro with an OWC miniSAS PCIe card and it has been rock solid from day one. In fact, we are getting ready to add a second one.

    It took us about a day to set it up and get it configured, but after that it has been easy to use and maintain. We currently have it configured in Raid 5 and it's hosted on our iSCSI SAN. Multiple edit suites access this storage and our SAN server and this drive array runs without any problems.

    If you have not worked with miniSAS do your homework ahead of time to avoid disappointment. It would be great to see this style raid from OWC with Thunderbolt.

    I would recommend this item to a friend!

    Verified Buyer
    Reviewer: Storeithere
    Rating: 4/5 Big, fast and quite. November 6, 2012 The Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS is a 16TB hard drive in a single rack space. Unfortunately, there is no RAID associated with this product.There is a PCIe card that's required for SAS operation which is supposed to have some RAID capabilities, but those seem to be unavailable with a Mac. However, you can have it appear as 4 separate drives on your desktop, and that works well. Populating these drives takes a while (about 9 hours per TB), but once completed, things work reasonably fast. One issue is that the drives never stop spinning. I put the computer to sleep for the weekend, and on Monday morning the drives were spinning just as fast as they were on Friday evening. So you need to either turn everything off everyday, or just let them spin. The Mercury Rack Pro mini-SAS is a good hard drive that's big enough to last for a while. It works fast and is quite. I would recommend this product to anyone needing a fast drive, or for use as a back up.

    I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 16.0TB OWC Mercury Rack Pro 4-Bay SAS 1U Rackmount Solution.

    Response from MacSales.com, Marketing November 7, 2012 Your comment of, "There is a PCIe card that's required for SAS operation which is supposed to have some RAID capabilities, but those seem to be unavailable with a Mac." is not quite accurate. Yes, any RAID features of this mini-SAS enclosure would be dependent on the HBA card you're using. However, we offer several options for Mac such as the Newer Technology MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G 2e http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/MXPRMS6G2E/ Additional RAID controllers can be found under the Specifications Tab on the product page.


    ¹ Depending on selected drives, RAID setting, and external mini SAS equipped SAS or SATA card.
    ² RAID drives via software or SATA controller card.
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