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OWC Announces Mercury Elite Pro mini as Industry’s First eSATA 6G and Bus-Powered USB 3.0 Portable Storage Solution

OWC NewsFeed — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:04:05 +0000

Other World Computing announced today it has expanded its OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini line to include the industry’s first eSATA 6G and bus-powered USB 3.0 portable external drive. Available in 13 different hard drive or OWC Mercury SSD-equipped capa...

Holiday Sales Continue on Cyber Monday

OWC NewsFeed — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:51:44 +0000

Last week, we posted on our Black Friday/Holiday specials and, quite frankly, the response has been tremendous. We’ve had record numbers of orders, which tells us that a lot of people are finding those deals to be pretty good. Well, we’re going to ...

OWC SuperSlim Turns Any 9.5mm SATA Slot Loading Internal Optical Drive Into An External Enclosure For Plug And Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray Disc Burning/Playing

OWC NewsFeed — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:51:35 +0000

Other World Computing today announced the OWC SuperSlim, a USB 2.0 bus powered optical drive enclosure for turning any 9.5mm SATA slot loading internal optical drive, even those with mounting tabs, into an external Plug and Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray...

OWC Announces Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini As Industry’s First 2.5″ 1.5TB “Quad Interface” FireWire/USB Bus Powered Portable Storage Solution

OWC NewsFeed — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:02:48 +0000

Other World Computing announced today that its OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini™ 1.5TB model is the highest capacity 2.5“ “Quad Interface” bus powered portable storage solution on the market and available for immediate ordering with 12 models...

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro Bus Powered High-Performance Portable Drive 750GB 7200RPM Speed Model Added To Line With Up to 1.0TB Capacity

OWC NewsFeed — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:30:04 +0000

Other World Computing announced today it has added four new 750GB 7200 RPM models to its award-winning OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro™ bus powered portable storage solution line. The Mercury On-The-Go Pro is a high-performance, pocket-sized portable stor...

NewerTech Announces Guardian MAXimus mini Bus Powered “Quad Interface” Portable RAID Storage Solution For “Live Activity” Backup

OWC NewsFeed — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:39:54 +0000

Newer Technology, Inc. announced today it has expanded its award-winning storage solution line with the new Guardian MAXimus mini bus powered portable hardware RAID storage solution for “live activity” backup/data redundancy of critical data. Feat...

Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1.0TB is an Industry first.

OWC NewsFeed — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:03:06 +0000

Today, we are happy to announce that the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is the first 2.5″ 1TB “Quad Interface” bus powered portable storage solution on the market and available for immediate...

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OWC Express priced to move even faster!

OWC Chris S. — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:01:58 +0000

Hello Readers, and happy Day-After-Thanksgiving to you! As always, while most of the United States is recovering from an L-Tryptophan-induced slumber, we here at OWC are ready to help you with your...

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When You Need 2.5″ 1TB Capacity…Read the label.

OWC Grant — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:55:03 +0000

In case you were too caught up in our Facebook images covering our wind turbine arrival, you might have missed the plethora of media attention that our newest OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro™ model...

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OWC announces portable, bus-powered external SSD drives

Steven Sande — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and ends

I'm pretty paranoid about making sure that backups are done on all of my Macs. That's why I carry a small Western Digital MyPassport hard drive with me wherever I go with my MacBook Air, since I do at least one Time Machine backup a day -- even when I'm on the road.

This is my second MyPassport drive. That's not saying that anything is wrong with the Western Digital drives; it's just that the first one I owned fell off of a classroom desk while a backup was in progress, pulling out the USB cable and dropping about three feet onto a hard floor. The drive appeared to be OK, but never worked again.

That's why I was happy to hear that OWC announced the Mercury On-The-Go Pro series of portable bus-powered SSD drives yesterday. Solid-state drives, since they have no moving parts, can put up with a lot more abuse than traditional platter-based drives. They also offer better read performance than regular hard drives, and are often less power-hungry.

The drives come in three different capacities -- 64 GB (US$279.99), 128 GB (US$449.99), and 256 GB (US$729.99) -- and all offer 64 MB of cache, as well as Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. Being bus-powered, they don't need an AC adapter, making the On-The-Go Pro series perfect for road trips.

While SSD drives are still more expensive than traditional hard drives, they're definitely more rugged, and in the long run that might be less costly than replacing a dropped hard drive. I've had extremely good success with OWC's products in the past, making this a doubly-attractive proposition. Of course, making sure my students don't cause my drives to take a dive off of a desk is a cheaper solution!

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