OWC Announces Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 Quad Interface Plug and Play RAID Storage Solution

By DE Editors

Other World Computing’s new Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 is a plug-and-play desktop hardware RAID storage solution. Featuring a “quad interface” of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0,  and eSATA ports; 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/s.

Built for performance-intensive applications, the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 is designed for both Mac and PC with a shock resistant, heat dissipating brushed aluminum housing preconfigured with up to 8TB of storage capacity. Its front panel LEDs give at-a-glance system status, while the removable key lock helps ensure the installed hard drives remain secure.

A front panel selector switch provides simple configuration of the four hardware RAID settings:  0,  1, 5, 10, as well as a span (NRAID) setting.

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)  and three-year warranty: $679.99
• 3TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (750GB x 4 w/128MB cache)  and three-year warranty: $849.99
• 4TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1TB x 4 w/128MB cache)  and three-year warranty: $979.99
• 6TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1.5TB x 4 w/128MB cache)  and three-year warranty: $1,149.99
• 8TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (2TB x 4 w/128MB cache)  and three-year warranty $1,899.99
• Enterprise Class 2TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (500GB x 4 w/64MB cache) and five-year warranty: $799.99
• Enterprise Class 4TB OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (1TB x 4 w/128MB cache) and five-year warranty: $1,149.99
 

For more information, visit OWC.

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