OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad z SoftRAID
The OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad offers an unprecedented combination of USB port, universal drive bays and advanced SoftRAID capabilities. And all this in a quiet, aluminum housing. Whatever your work environment needs, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad gives you the flexibility to take your storage capacity, performance and data security to a whole new level.
Easy RAID
Get the most out of your OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad drive array with the included SoftRAID XT , the most powerful, intuitive RAID management software on the market for macOS and Windows. SoftRAID's RAID creation and management technology has been perfected over 20 years of development to provide solid protection for your data and optimize drive performance.
SoftRAID Features
SoftRAID XT provides an unrivaled combination of speed, protection and compatibility:
- Advanced: Create RAID arrays 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10)1
Protection: SoftRAID Monitor constantly watches your drives and alerts you when problems are detected - Protection: Volume validation ensures that sectors are readable and parity is correct
- Preventive: Checks drives before use to ensure they are safe for storing data
- Vigilance: Anticipating errors helps protect against unexpected failures
- Versatile: Seamlessly move SoftRAID arrays between Mac and PC2 with built-in OWC MacDrive technology
Beyond hardware RAID,
SoftRAID provides a level of storage performance that simply cannot be achieved with hardware RAID. Software RAID provides greater power and control over disks and RAID drives that hardware RAID cannot, and is not limited by technologies that cannot be upgraded or expanded.
product specification
- Supported drives: 4x 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA drives
- Hot Swap: yes
- Chipset: USB 3.1 Gen 2: (1) by Labs VLI-822 SATA: (4) ASMedia ASM-235CM
- Data transfer rate (maximum)
USB 3.2 Gen 2: Up to 10 Gbps (or 1250 MB/s) - Plug and Play: yes
- RAID possible using software - SoftRAID included with the housing
- Reliability: MTBF (mean time between failures) varies depending on the drives installed
- Compatibility
Mac OS Compatibility
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion OS X 10.9
Mavericks OS
X 10.10 Yosemite OS 11.x Big Sur macOS 12.x Monterey macOS 13.x Ventura OS Compatibility Windows Windows 7 32-bit edition Windows 7 64-bit edition Windows Home Server 2011 Windows 8 32-bit edition Windows 8 64-bit edition Windows 8.1 32-bit edition Windows 8.1 64-bit edition Windows Server 2012 Windows 10 32-bit edition Windows 10 64-bit edition Windows Server 2016 Windows 11
