OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro

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The full name of the product is the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface", which is quite a mouthful. The unit ships with a vertical mounting stand, a power adapter and no less than four cables: eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB. Given the current pricing of eSATA and FireWire 800 cables, the pricing is pretty reasonable.

[...]We're not surprised at how fast eSATA is, but we are impressed and a little surprised at the overall performance of FireWire 800. Alas, FireWire 800 may not be common on most PC platforms. A few motherboards used FireWire 800 for a time. Most seem to have transitioned back to FireWire 400, but they've also added eSATA.

We were also surprised at how poorly USB 2.0 fared. These sorts of differences often stem from controller implementations. But the host-based USB 2.0's high CPU utilization will always be something of a barrier to maximum performance.

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