The OWC Mercury Pro Blu-ray “Quad Interface” drives are Blu-ray burners that happen to be compatible with every interface both under and over the sun. The 4X Panasonic-based BD-R drives work on PCs or Macs, and champion the title as the world’s first Blu-ray burners to connect to Firewire 400, Firewire 800, eSATA and USB. If your computer can’t support a Mercury Pro, then you must be reading this post from a typewriter or something. The drives start at $US500 and get more expensive depending on extra software you may want. Available now.
It seemed like just yesterday when we pointed out OWC’s 1TB Dual Drive RAID Array. But that was back on July 26, 2005, when that sucker cost $979.99, and now here’s a 2TB RAID array for $1099 – just a few bucks more, but nearly two years later, too.
The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual 2.0TB RAID drive has two 1TB 7200RPM disks inside, and you can hook the enclosure up to your Mac or PC via one of its two FireWire 800 ports or a single FireWire 400 connector. Of course, you can also plug it in via USB 2.0 if you so desire. But wait. We can do better than this, can’t we?
Yes. While we really like this enclosure’s G5-like styling and cool blue indicator light, we’d really like to see eSATA connectivity (300MB/s) for faster throughput than the 100MB/s of this FireWire 800 rig. But then, we could just get an OWC sSATA enclosure and build one ourselves.– Charlie White
Product Page [Other World Computing, via CrunchGear]
Good news, media pirates/porn addicts: you can now get an external drive that can hold a whopping 1TB of your illegal/illicit materials. OWC is releasing its Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” 1.0TB External Drive Solution for $600, and it’s loaded up with connectivity options. You can plug it in via FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, or eSATA ports. It’s your choice! Just go wild!
Best of all, it’s styled to go great with your Mac Pro tower (not that it won’t work on Windows machines; you’ll just look like a poser). Finally, something to hold all your porn and look good while doing it! So long, ratty DVD-R binder! –Adam Frucci
Product Page [MacSales]
Other World Computing (OWC) continues to roll out these attractive antiperspirant container-like enclosures with 2.5-inch drives shoehorned inside, taking its three-way drive we mentioned a couple of weeks ago to the next level with external SATA (eSATA) connectivity. Available in capacities from 80GB to 200GB, we’d recommend that 160-gig model ($260) that spins at 7200RPM.
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