Need a fast, high-capacity external hard drive for that notebook? You might want to check out the just-announced Mercury-on-the-Go drives available in 200- and 250 GB storage capacity. Other World Computing carries the new drives which have transparent casing and several interfaces: FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0 and eSATA. You can see the Hitachi 7K-series drive that spins at 7200 RPM, so I wondered how OWA could claim these are 50% faster; I was thinking they were watching the zippy disk spinning through the casing and got dizzy, but no. OWA paired the fast drive with a custom bridge interface that apparently quickens the transfer. Details are sketchy, so without some benchmarking testing you’ll have to decide if this is marketing mumbo-jumbo or a well designed solution.
The 200 GB drive is the 7200 RPM model and runs $359.99, while the greater capacity 250 GB drive is a slower 5200 RPM drive so you’ll pay less: $319.99. Both work are supported on PC and Mac and OWA throws in a software license for a backup program as well.

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