OWC tempts with 4-bay Mercury Rack Pro RAID solution

If OWC's latest and greatest external RAID drives are just too, um, unmountable for your tastes, how's about this? The 4-bay Mercury Rack Pro features the increasingly familiar quad interface (USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA) and supports up to four 2TB 3.5-inch SATA I / II hard drives, up to 128MB total data buffer, a variety of RAID options and ultra-quiet operation. Those looking to fill that one last 1U slot with oodles of storage room can buy in now for anywhere between $899.99 (2TB) and $1,499.99 (4TB).

[dan! @ Jan 10th 2009 12:36AM]

i"ll take 2

[Squid7085 @ Jan 10th 2009 1:04AM]

Hate to say it, but this looks awfully like a previous Apple product.

[eggothewaffle @ Jan 10th 2009 1:10AM]

Hate to say it, and I'm not racist or anything, but rack-mounts really do kind of all look alike.

[OfficeDespot @ Jan 10th 2009 1:14AM]

This is sexier than an Apple product. Being that it's not an Apple product and looks nicely designed. I'd love one to hook up to my WHS over eSATA.

[Maggie @ Jan 10th 2009 3:34AM]

As it looks almost exactly like an Apple Xserve G4 (http://solutionx.com.au/applecomputers/xserve/xserve.jpg) you fail at internets. And also at basic 'lookin' shit up on google'. Were you just that hard up for taking a swing at Apple?

[dodo @ Jan 10th 2009 5:17AM]

OfficeDespot you're just jealous to apple's sexy design...you should be happy that there is a company like apple who forces other companies to build nice stuff and not continue the cheap and ugly grey/black/blue pastic stuff you're using at home...

[Paully @ Jan 12th 2009 5:43AM]

Blatant copy of a 5 year old apple x-serve... what a shame they couldn't come up with their own design!

[Joseph @ Jan 10th 2009 1:44AM]

wonder if this will get removed as spam.

[FILA @ Jan 10th 2009 3:06AM]

they should just sell the rack, these companies jack up the prices when they throw in the HDD's. I could buy 4TB from new egg at about 300. i mean 1.5TB is going for 100 now

[FILA @ Jan 10th 2009 3:07AM]

ok just looked that up and its like 130 for a 1.5TB, but still alot cheaper

[Maggie @ Jan 10th 2009 3:38AM]

Look on their site under Hard Drives -> External enclosures. You can buy the same rack enclosure without drives.

[John @ Jan 10th 2009 3:14AM]

Why no love for SAS? :(

[larry @ Jan 10th 2009 3:04PM]

This posting of MacPower [ http://www.macpower.com.tw/ ]...er I mean, OWC products is getting out of hand. It is a lot of overpriced, chinese crap.

[loosely_coupled @ Jan 11th 2009 1:44AM]

For anyone looking for decent external drive solutions, OWC is excellent. They always score at the top of external drive speed comparisons among consumer/prosumer level solutions.. Check out the most recent MacWorld where they did one such test of a dozen different external drives.. I'm sure this new product is just as good.