http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/ Engadget Comments for OWC reveals 500GB Mercury On-The-Go portable HDD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Apr 18th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Apr 18th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/
http://eshop.macsales.com/images/otg/otg_triple_550.jpg
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it works great...I have 2 MOTG drives.]]>Apr 18th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/]]>Apr 18th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Apr 18th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Apr 18th 2008 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/
You can see the actual enclosure here:

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OWC supports their products well, and they're very generous with the extra goodies. Each drive comes with a leather carrying pouch, AC adapter (which you won't need but nice to have), software, and a plethora of cables (FW 800 or 400, 800>400 adapter, USB). And personally, I don't care what they look like so long as they WORK.

JK]]>Apr 18th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Does the "On-the-go" product name imply that it is not just USB, but USB-OTG? It'd be nice to see some actual "On The Go" drives out there (meaning the USB protocol, not some product name).

Of course, I'd really like to see a drive that has internal battery; bluetooth FTP; wifi for nfs/afp/cifs; USB client for mass-storage-mode, config and charging; and an RJ-45 (also for nfs/afp/cifs).

Ok, maybe not afp. But otherwise, yeah, that.
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If we were talking about rolling your own NAS or similar I would agree. But all that is required to put the thing together is you slide the hard drive into the enclosure. For those two dozen drives your company has bought you could have saved somewhere around $1500. And the total time to assemble all 24 units would be 36 minutes..assuming 3 minutes per unit, which is generous.

But, yeah, I agree with you on OWC products. Overall they are exceptional.
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also, i'm assuming this is a 2.5 inch drive, right? if so, wouldn't people be interested in the weight and dimensions of a mobile drive? the writer shouldn't assume too much about what we (average readers) know.]]>Apr 18th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/Apr 19th 2008 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/owc-reveals-500gb-mercury-on-the-go-portable-hdd/
I'd rather go for the Buffalo 500GB MiniStation.

A lot cheaper, and the whole line is known to be really good.]]>Apr 19th 2008 6:03AM