Professional Grade Performance. Data Protection + Massive Capacity.

The OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 is engineered to excel for applications such as backup, Audio/Video, photography, data management, and more.

THE ULTIMATE BLEND OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE AND CONVENIENCE

The high-capacity, high-performance Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 was engineered for performance-intensive applications such as HD-video, digital photography, professional music, graphics and backup. Choose between five different RAID levels for the best combination of speed, capacity and redundancy for your needs.
Four 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA I/II) hard disk drives in a brushed aluminum enclosure with Hardware RAID setting flexibility and up to 300MB/s data transfer speed for high performance data storage and redundancy.

USER SELECTABLE HARDWARE RAID SETTINGS

Thanks to a front panel selector switch, the Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 enables easy configuration of the hardware RAID settings to Span, 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD/Independent drive modes – so you can select the best combination of speed, capacity, redundancy.

SPAN

Combines the capacity of two or more drives of the same size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume. This mode can combine the capacity of varying size drives based on the lowest capacity drive in the set.

RAID 0 (STRIPE)

Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.

RAID 1 (STRIPE)

Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.

RAID 5 (STRIPE WITH PARITY)

Data is Striped (RAID 0) while incorporating redundancy over three or more drives for the best combination of speed, capacity, and redundancy. The Multi-Interface 4 Bay Enterprise Class Performance RAID Solutions are pre-configured as RAID 5.

RAID 10 (1+0)

Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.

JBOD/INDEPENDENT DRIVE OPERATION

Each drive mounts as an individual volume.