The new OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB is the highest capacity portable, bus-powered storage drive on the market. A palm-sized drive that fits in a shirt pocket, the Mercury On-The-Go 500GB offers FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 connections and 5400RPM performance. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB is available now priced at $359.99.

Other World Computing Press Release

OWC ANNOUNCES 500GB MERCURY ON-THE-GO—HIGHEST CAPACITY PORTABLE STORAGE DRIVE ON THE MARKET

Back up Your Entire Desktop Computer and Bring It with You

April 17, 2008 Woodstock, IL—Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today their highest capacity portable, bus-powered storage drive to date – the OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB,  5400RPM portable storage drive.  The Mercury On-The-Go 500GB offers blazing-fast FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 connections, now available with 56% more data capacity than the previous award-winning Mercury On-The-Go model.

Immediately available and priced at $359.99, the Mercury On-The-Go 500GB portable drive is a palm-sized performer with huge capacity that fits in a shirt pocket.  Built with the latest reliable, high-performance drive mechanisms and interfaced with OWC’s custom bridge solution featuring the Oxford924 chipset, the Mercury On-The-Go is ready for your largest projects yet.

Built for the “On-The-Go” Road Warrior
Geared to the demanding “on-the-go” professional road warrior that requires dependable, high-performance storage, the OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB portable drive is compatible with virtually all computers with an available FireWire or USB port, including all Macs and PCs.  It also works with all FireWire and USB digital cameras, camcorders, and other gadgets, for an instant on-the-go portable storage solution to quickly and safely store all your digital photos and video while on the road. 

With The Mercury On-The-Go, you can back-up your entire desktop computer and bring it with you everywhere you go.  For easy backup, the portable drive also includes the full retail software versions of the latest award-winning Prosoft DataBackup III for OS X and NovaStor NovaBackup for Windows.

The Mercury On-The-Go is “Time Machine” ready, meaning that it keeps an up-to-date copy of all of your files and documents under OS X Leopard™, so you can go back in time, anytime, to recover anything with ease.

In addition to the Mercury On-The-Go 500GB drive with 5400RPM performance, OWC also offers a full line of On-The-Go models with USB 2.0, USB 2.0+eSATA, FireWire 400+USB2, as well as additional FireWire 800/400+USB2 models in capacities of 120GB-320GB, priced from $97.99; and 7200RPM Mercury On-The-Go models in capacities of 100GB-200GB, priced from $119.99.

All Mercury On-The-Go portable drives are available immediately through OWC and other retailers.  The drives ship with a carrying case; cables for all interfaces specific on-the-go model supports; Prosoft DataRescue III for OS X; and NovaStor NovaBackup for Windows.  All drives are covered by a one-year warranty and are compatible with Apple OS Versions 8.5 through 9.2.x; Apple OS X 10.0.3 and higher (including the latest OS 10.5.x); and Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Vista.

For more information, see: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go

About Other World Computing (OWC)
Other World Computing (OWC) has been providing quality hardware products and support to the computer industry since 1988.  The Illinois based company operates the popular e-commerce portal www.MacSales.com, which features one of the largest online catalogs of computer and iPod enhancement products, including Mercury, Neptune, and NewerTech acceleration, storage, and FireWire® product lines. 

OWC is a Premiere Level Apple Developer Connection member and provides extensive technical support for Macintosh users around the world.  OWC is also a strategic partner with Axiotron and exclusive US distributor of the award winning Axiotron Modbook™.

OWC is the winner of numerous awards, including Computerworld Magazine’s Top Green-IT Companies for 2008 and the 2008 “Business Champion Award” from McHenry County Economic Development Corporation.  The company’s management umbrella includes leading Internet Service Providers www.fastermac.net and www.owc.net and is the leading technology employer as ranked by the McHenry County Business Journal.  For more information, see www.otherworldcomputing.com or www.macsales.com.

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