OWC Announces Portable 200 and 250 GB Drives

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Other World Computing (OWC) announced on Tuesday the immediate availability of its new 7,200 rpm, bus powered, portable hard drive, the Mercury On-The-Go 200 GB portable hard drive.

The 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 or USB gadgets, including digital cameras and camcorders, for an instant on-the-go portable storage solution to quickly and safely store all your digital photos and video when traveling.


Mercury On-The-Go 200 GB

The drive is built on the latest Hitachi 7K200 mechanism with OWCis custom Oxford 924 bridge that interfaces to FireWire 800/400, USB2, and eSATA.

The 200 GB Mercury On-The-Go portable drive is priced at US$359.99. OWC simultaneously announced a 250 GB 5,400 rpm model, with the same interfaces, priced slightly less at US$319.99.

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John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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