OWC has recently declared a innovative line up of convenient hard drives. The latest Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini line up is being enclosed with aluminum casing, with bus powered drives, as well as includes quad interfaces.

The Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini casing design is a smaller adaptation of the casing used in OWC's Mercury Elite-Al Proline, so it's a well-known intend to OWC consumers. And the casing measures approximately 3.8 by 5.5 by 1.1 inches and not more than that, small as much as necessary to store in a laptop bag or else backpack.

All Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini drives arrive with an eSATA port, as well as a USB 2.0 port, along with a couple of FireWire 800 ports. If you want to hook up using FireWire 400, you'll want a FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 cable, which OWC contain with the drive. OWC also contains FireWire 800, USB 2.0 with eSATA cables.

The drive can draw power from FireWire or else a powered USB port, letting you to make use of those connections to control the drive without a power adapter. The drive does include a power input, but OWC doesn't contain a power adapter; it have to be purchased individually.

OWC present a range of drive speeds along with capacities:

• 320GB, 5400 rpm drive with an 8MB cache
• 500GB, 5400 rpm drive with an 8MB cache
• 750GB, 5200 rpm drive with an 8MB cache
• 320GB, 7200 rpm drive with a 16MB cache
• 500GB, 7200 rpm drive with a 16MB cache

OWC also includes a Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 256MB SSD drive with a 64MB cache. The Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is also offered lacking a drive so you can slot in your individual mechanism. The empty casing is obtainable for $90, or else $98 with a software package. The software package includes Intech SpeedTools Utilities, Prosoft Engineering Data Backup, as well as Carbon Copy Cloner, all for Mac user only. OWC also contains NovaStor NovaBACKUP for Windows users. The software package is also incorporated in all the drives with mechanisms listed on top of.