http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/ Engadget Comments for OWC intros dual-bay quad interface Mercury Elite-AL Pro RAID drives 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/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
i'd just get my own drives and slap them in if they are going to rip me off like that... just a note of caution from my 1st hand experience.. eSATA blows REALLY bad through multi-interface bridges.. the oxford bride in this unit is better than most but still a dedicate eSATA only enclosure is what you need for the fastest speeds.]]>Jan 9th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
You partition the RAID 0 into 2 volumes then mirror them together! It's elementary!

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2. These use good drives, so going to Tiger Direct and picking a drive isn't the same.

3. RAID 5 requires 3 disks, Raid 10 requires 4. Who are these people?]]>Jan 9th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
Seagate is the only one that sells 1.5TB drives... so i guess that Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB Hard Drive ST31500341AS - 7200RPM, 32MB cache for $149(tiger direct), $129 (newegg) is a crappy drive? not to mention they really don't have any choice in 1.5TB drives... this IS the disc you will get with the 3TB model.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4138742&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
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look, i have nothing against OWC they sell quality stuff... i have an dual bay eSATA only enclosure from them... they are just overcharging for this RAID.

look at the stats here... "Data Buffer: 32 Megabyte (2 Drives with 16MB (16,384) cache each)" http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME8Q7T30GB64/]]>Jan 9th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
/-)]]>Jan 9th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/]]>Jan 9th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
Yeah, except for the fact that eSATA has no POWER, and can't be used for anything other than storage.]]>Jan 11th 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/j

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http://www.frattoys.com]]>Jan 9th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
forget it...

I'm in the market for a decent 3-day NAS, with gig ethernet, at a reasonable price... any hot tips would be much appreciated. :)]]>Jan 9th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/Jan 9th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
ummm, I never said that I expected it to support RAID 5 or 10. In fact, I made it perfectly clear that the reason I wouldn't buy it is the 2-drive limit (therefore no RAID 5 or 10) and lack of ethernet.

Perhaps you meant to respond to someone else above...?]]>Jan 9th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://jevidon.tumblr.com/post/68560680/wir-001-buying-a-new-external-hd-enclosure

I was amazed at how few available options for dual-drive enclosure with eSATA are out on the market. Drobo is a great piece of eqiupment, but you're not reaching the full potential of your drive speeds. It's one thing to have a bottleneck on your PC/Mac that you can eventually upgrade, but limiting yourself on the drive enclosure itself is just stupid.

Oh, and speaking of stupid, let's give a big round of applause to those that lambaste this enclosure for only doing RAID 0 and 1. What was OWC thinking!!! :) ]]>Jan 9th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/owc-intros-dual-bay-quad-interface-mercury-elite-al-pro-raid-dri/
You partition the RAID 0 into 2 volumes then mirror them together! It's elementary!

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http://home2.owc.net/~tech/OWC/936AP%20for%20MAC.zip]]>Jan 16th 2009 1:00PM