OWC's 1TB Mercury Elite Pro Aluminum Dual RAID

If you're looking for a little friend for your PowerMac G5, Other World Computing just announced the Mercury Elite Pro Aluminum Dual RAID (apparently they managed to bite Apple's style, but not its naming conventions), a new external FireWire 800 hard drive that comes with up to 1TB of storage.

[Cullen @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

does it go in the butt?

[Conrad Quilty-Harper @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

if they really wanted to match the style they'd make the holes the same size as the g5. oh, it looks like my perfectionist elitist mac designer alternate personality just escaped.

[richdun @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

#2 heh, at least they didn't make the case the same size as the g5.

[Zeek @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

aaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[TSW @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

k, now we need an adventurous soul to hollow out that little bugger and shoehorn the guts of a mac mini into it.

that'd be awesome.

[benhc911 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

tsw i'm with you on that, whats the comparison on the volume? because there isnt much free space in a mini, so rotating squishing and stretching is ok only if it isnt too small of a formfactor. but the disc drive might be hardest, is this cd sized? its a little hard for me to tell as i dont own a g5, but from what i can tell it isnt tall enough. so that drive would have to be replace with some other kind of media drive...

[ben @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i don't think anyone would want a crappy mac mini next to their g5. i wonder how loud & hot that thing is...i guess it's for people who don't think the g5 puts out enough heat alone.

[Eli @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

#7: or...like, maybe some people get new hardware because they need more capacity, not because it looks (sounds?) pretty sitting next to their computer.

oh just kidding - no one really does that :d

[benhc911 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

yeah eli, you got to realise that this is marketed towards the wrong demographic, the looks conquer all demographic. sorry, i only mean that to a certain extent, although i do believe it, i like the mac os the most... but ipod and such...

[Virtual1 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

one "little minor detail" they tend not to tell you with big hds like this... they toss around the "raid" word, which for a lot of novices means data protection. in this case the raid is the "stripe" variety, and there are two hds in the box. there is no redundancy, and worse yet, if either drive fails, you lose 100% of your data. so this doubles your chances of catastrophic failure. i would prefer to see this have been a 500gb volume, with mirroring raid instead, so if one drive croaks i'm not sent digging out my backups and eating downtime.

[Ankalon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

#1 it is not a suppository.

and from the dimensions provided on the resellers sites and the mac mini's dimensions...

it won't fit.

mini:2 x 6.5 x 6.5
raid:2.8 x 9.0 x 5.8

[Jazzay @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

o give me a hammer and a beer ill get the mini in their

[Nate @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

who needs a hammer?

[Cameron @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

i'd like to know who needs that much data (and i mean needs)... i mean i suppose i could manage to fill it if i had it (after an extreme effort), but what's the point? (and yes, i saw the "up to")

[freeside @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

who needs that much data, you ask? probably anyone doing video editing, and final cut pro is widely regarded as one of the best video editing applications around.

does the design remind anyone else of a dog? anyone seen flcl?

[Jazzay @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

also photographers, even an amutuer photographer like me who never deletes any of his 6 mb each photos, while i dont need a terabyte of data yet, i have 80,000 pictures so far, just under 500 gigs, now that i think of it, a couple of terabyte servers in raid 1, thatd be a good idea, thanks guys