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OWC Bows 500-Gig Drive

WOODSTOCK, Ill. -- 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.

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