Product Overview
OWC offers its Mercury Elite Pro series of external hard drives with a next-generation, high-speed Oxford 944 and Oxford 3100 USB/FireWire/eSATA chipset, along with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available to provide blazing-fast transfer rates of up to 300 Megabytes Per Second.
The 7200RPM OWCME3QH7T6.0 offers 6.0TB of storage with a 128MB cache, and comes in a compact and shock-resistant chassis with plenty of connections, no matter what type of system you are using. This hard drive offers one USB 3.0 port (backwards compatible with USB 2.0/1.1), two FireWire 800 (1394B) ports, and one eSATA port, and includes all the necessary connecting cables for each port type.
OWC OWCME3QH7T6.0 Includes:
- OWC Mercury Elite Pro external drive
- High-quality double shielded eSATA connecting cable (eSATA - eSATA)
- High-quality double shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable (9-pin to 9-pin)
- High-quality double shielded USB 3.0 Standard-B to Standard-A (backwards compatible with USB 2.0/1.1) connecting cable
- UL Listed US/International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v input, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 3 Amp output power supply (adapter plugs for international use sold separately)
- Vertical stand
- Mercury Elite Pro manual
- Pre-Installed Backup and Utility Software:
- Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™ OWM (for Mac OS 8.6 - X only)
- ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
- NovaStar NovaBACKUP® for Windows 2000 or later
- Over 1.5GB of freeware/shareware/public domain software pre-installed
- OWC 3 year Solution Warranty with 48-hour turnaround time
- Complementary Level 1 Data Recovery
OWC OWCME3QH7T6.0 Specifications:
- Chipset: Oxford 944 and Oxford 3100 eSATA/FireWire/USB chipset
- Standard Mechanism: 6.0TB Toshiba/HST Deskstar™ 7K1000.D Hard Disk Drive
- Drive Interface: SATA (Serial ATA)
- Drive Cache Size: 128 Megabyte (131,072k)
- Drive Rotation Speed: 7200RPM
- Port Configuration:
- USB 3.0: (1) B Standard-B Port
- FireWire 800: (2) 9-pin ports
- eSATA: (1) port
- Max Data Transfer Rates:
- USB 3.0: Up to 300MB/sec
- USB 2.0: Up to 60MB/sec
- USB 1.1: Up to 1.5MB/sec
- FireWire 800: Up to 100MB/sec
- FireWire 400: Up to 50MB/sec
- eSATA: Up to 300MB/sec
- Port/Interface Bootability: Can I use this solution as an external startup drive?
- eSATA: Supported on Mac and Windows PCs meeting minimum requirements
- FireWire 800: Supported on Macs meeting minimum requirements
- FireWire 400: Supported on Macs meeting minimum requirements
- USB 3.0: Supported on Mac and Windows PCs meeting minimum requirements
- Mac System Requirements:
- Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2 compatible, OS X 10.1.x and later. Including "Mavericks" 10.9.x (10.2 or later required for FW800 and USB 2.0)
- USB 3.0: Macintosh with USB 3.0 interface, either built-in or via USB 3.0 expander card
- USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 interface, either built-in or via USB 2.0 expander card
- FireWire 800: Macintosh with FireWire 800 interface, either built-in or via FireWire 800 expander card
- FireWire 400: Macintosh with FireWire 400 interface, either built-in or via FireWire 400 expander card
- eSATA: Macintosh with eSATA interface, either built-in or via eSATA expander card
- Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) or later
- Windows System Requirements:
- USB 3.0: Windows XP and later with USB 3.0 interface, either built-in or via USB 3.0 expander card
- USB 2.0: Windows 2000 or later with USB 2.0 interface, either built-in or via USB 2.0 expander card
- FireWire 800: Windows 2000 and later with FireWire 800 interface, either built-in or via FireWire 800 expander card
- FireWire 400: Windows 2000 and later with FireWire 400 interface, either built-in or via FireWire 400 expander card
- eSATA: Windows 2000 or later with eSATA interface, either built-in or via eSATA expander card
- Linux Requirements: Linux compatible via supported USB and FireWire interfaces
- Format: Included Drive Guide Software will format drive for either OS X or Windows
- Power Supply: UL Listed US/International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v input, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 3 Amp output Power Supply
- External Case Dimensions (WxDxH): 1.5" x 9" x 4.6" (38.1mm x 228.6mm x 116.84mm)
- Total Shipping Weight: Approximately 2.7 lbs (1.2 kg)