Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay Offers RAID Solution

By DE Editors

Other World Computing (OWC;  Woodstock, IL) debuted the new Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interface”  RAID solution at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interface” features a high performance Oxford chipset with two SATA I/II hard drive bays for high-performance RAID storage of up to 3.0TB and fast transfer speeds of 300MBps. Built for performance-intensive applications such as A/V, digital photography,  professional graphics, as well as general data, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interface” is designed for both Macs (Time Machine ready) and PCs, featuring a shock resistant, aircraft-grade brushed aluminum housing. The “Quad” Interfaces provide plug and play interoperability on and between systems equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0,  and/or eSATA. Quad interface support makes it easy to use the Elite-AL Pro between multiple systems/interface options as best suited to system availability while providing the same data accessibility, without reconfiguration, regardless of which interface option is used.

The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interface” FireWire 800/400+USB2+eSATA RAID Solution is available in seven pre-configured solutions, from 500GB to 3.0TB, ($219.99-$499.99). The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay “Quad Interface” is compatible with Apple OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, OS X 10.0.x, and 10.2.8 or later, and Windows 98SE and later operating systems.

For details on Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interface” features, go to Other World Computing.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.