Other World Computing (OWC) has introduced a new “Quad Interface” Mercury Elite-AL Pro hard disk drive equipped with USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and external Serial ATA (eSATA). The new drive starts at $199.99 and is available now.
The Mercury Elite-AL Pro features an aluminum chassis and uses Oxford Semiconductors’ Oxford 924 chipset. Inside, the drives use Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.10 and 7200.9 hard disk drive mechanisms, all running at 7200RPM and equipped with 16MB of buffer cache.
OWC offers 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, 500GB and 750GB models for $199.99, $229.99, $339.99, $349.99 and $629.99 respectively.
Included with the drive is Intech HD Speedtools and EMC Retrospect Backup software and all necessary cabling.