Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pro 2TB External Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache, eSATA, USB 3.0, 2x FireWire 800

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Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pro 2TB External Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache, eSATA, USB...

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Vastly accelerated time machine backups over previous fw 400 lacie drive. The only other option i found is from sans digital, who offers the same features for a slightly higher price. The drive now properly shows 6 gb, not 999. Gb of used data in the ... Read More

They are quiet and reliable. Shipped promptly and was easy to install for.

Working as advertised. Awesome product as usual. Very satisfied.

Cons

It needs either a fan or fins to enable it to cool the contained sata drive, but it has neither. Sounds like an engine is running when it is going!

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Quality

I'm not a tech, and have been pleased with the ease of set up and use; small and quiet.

I am very please with the customer service, and hopefully i will not have any further issues with the drive.

Owc needs tighter quality control at the point of assembly.

It has a bit of noise with the fan in it, but not a problem with recording with it.

Packaging/appearance

Everything works right out of the box.

Worked great right out of the box.

The box contained the 4tb drive i had ordered.

I subtracted one star for now because of the jackass that threw the box down on the porch.

Competitiveness

I used it for a 4tb drive on older macbook pro with firewire 800.

I have a 4tb hard drive in the first of these owc mercury elites that i purchased.

0 on a late 2011 15-inch macbook pro (2.

There are far far cheaper choices for usb3 and esata for winboxes or probably more recent macs or those with usb3.

Overview

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good, pro, external and far.

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Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 75.3% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 136 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2022.