Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com)
has announced the new Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2, a
plug and play desktop hardware RAID storage
solution that features a quad interface of
FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA
ports.
It also sports four Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive
bays and four user selectable hardware RAID
settings. The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 offers up
to 8TB of total storage capacity and data
transfer speeds up to 300MB/second.
A front panel selector switch provides
configuration of the four hardware RAID
settings: 0, 1, 5, 10, as well as a Span (NRAID)
setting, for the best level of speed, capacity,
or redundancy; or any desired combination of the
three operations. The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro
Qx2 is available in seven configurations:
° 2TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (500GB x 4 w/64MB cache), US$679.99;
° 3TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (750GB x 4 w/128MB cache), $849.99;
° 4TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1TB x 4 w/128MB cache), $979.99;
° 6TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1.5TB x 4 w/128MB cache), $1,149.99;
° 8TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (2TB x 4 w/128MB cache), $1,899.99;
° Enterprise Class 2TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro
Qx2 (500GB x 4 w/64MB cache), $799.99;
° Enterprise Class 4TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro
Qx2 (1TB x 4 w/128MB cache), $1,149.99.
The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 is compatible with
Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.0.x, and 10.2.8
or later, and Windows 98SE or later operating
systems. For more information go here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/RAID/Desktop/
