About OWC / Other World Computing 2TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Hard Drive
Compact and portable, the 2TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface External HDD w/ eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & USB2 Ports from OWC is an external storage solution with a high-storage capacity and superb data transfer speeds. This enclosure contains a 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 hard drive that spins at a fast speed of 7200rpm, has a fast SATA drive interface and a huge storage capacity of 2TB. In addition, this drive utilizes an Oxford 924 bridge chipset for increased speed and has a 64MB buffer that works to that same end.
For connecting the drive to your computer, you have numerous options. You can use one of two built-in FireWire 800 ports, the eSATA port, the FireWire 400 port, or the USB 2.0 port. The USB 2.0 port is also backwards compatible with computers that have older USB ports. You can transfer data at speeds up to 1.5 Gbps via the eSATA port, 800 Mbps via a FireWire 800 port, 400 Mbps via a FireWire 400 port and 480 Mbps via the USB 2.0 port.
This external hard drive comes formatted for Mac computers and is plug-and-play via the USB 2.0 port; however, you can reformat the drive to work with Windows as well. While you can easily use it to store additional files or backup your hard drive, you can also use it as an external boot drive for your Mac computer. Along with the drive, you'll receive the following software: Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools Utilities, ProSoft's Engineering Data Backup, NovaStor's NovaBACKUP, Carbon Copy Cloner and over 1.5 GB of other free programs.
OWC / Other World Computing 2TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Hard Drive Features
Storage capacity of 2TB on an SATA drive that spins at a fast 7200rpm and that also utilizes a high-speed Oxford 924 bridge chipset as well as 64MB of cache
The variety of interfaces and the compact, shock-resistant design allow you to use the drive with a wide variety of computers and take it with you wherever you go
You can also use the unit as an external startup drive for your Mac computer with any of the interfaces
Formatted for use with Mac computers but can be reformatted for use with Windows PCs
Compatible with ProTools
Prosoft Engineering Data Backup 3: Data Backup allows you to easily backup files to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up your files. It does it for you. It's compatible with Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
Carbon Copy Cloner: 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
NovaStor NovaBACKUP: 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. It is compatible with Windows 2000 or later
Intech SpeedTools Utilities: 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
Intech SpeedTools Utilities: Installing and removing the suite is easy and can also be customized if you want to pick and choose which utility components to install
