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OWC 1TB Mercury Elite Hard Drive Review

OWC 1TB Mercury Elite Hard Drive Review Tiffany: Hi, there and welcome to Neo-Fight.TV the technology show for the not so geeky. My name is Tiffany Young. Ben: And I’m Ben Freedman and today on the show we are going to be looking at this nice piece of aluminum. Tiffany: You get so excited over here obviously. Ben: You know what it’s a hard drive and I love this really cool, fast hard drives. Tiffany: For me, I'm like that is a perfect shade of lip gloss. I mean this is cool, yeah. Ben: This is by OWC. Tiffany: What is it? Ben: It’s a hard drive. It’s a door stop and it’s a good door stop. See it’s hard to move. This is by OWC. This is the Mercury Elite Pro and this is a 1 TB hard drive so it’s huge but you can get smaller amounts too. You don’t have to go with the terabyte but you can get lower amounts of hard drive in there. Tiffany: Say 250, 500, 750. Ben: Very good. Tiffany: And it’s a sort of combination between. Ben: Yeah and what’s really cool about this drive is the number of ports it has. Take a look on the back here. You’ve got a USB port so if you have just USB on your computer you can use USB to hook up. FireWire, if you have the faster FireWire, especially FireWire 800 that they have on Macs you can use that or if there is new eSATA port which is this cool new port that only a few computers have now but more and more starting to have them and you plug it in there it’s like a direct link inside your computer. It is fast as having an internal hard drive. Tiffany: Wow that’s pretty impressive. Ben: So where USB is of course is much, much lower than having an internal. Tiffany: Well, with my fear with the terabyte and I have a terabyte too. Ben: You have one? Tiffany: I have one terabyte but this I put everything on it. Ben: That is not the same as over bite you know that. It’s a terabyte. You haven’t over bite. Tiffany: You say over bite? I put everything on it and now my fear is that I have to buy I'm going to lose it. Ben: Yeah. Tiffany: So I have to buy another terabyte to back up my terabyte which I should have done which get you 500. So I can back up you know whatever. The first one they are a little bit less expensive. Ben: Much less expensive. Tiffany: And I’ve all ready solve my issue because even with 250 it’s like a standard. The standard computer right now is about 250 gigs. Ben: Right. Tiffany: I don’t need a terabyte quite yet and now I realized that I haven’t printed a photo in like three years and it’s all on this terabyte and not back up. Ben: That’s a good point because if something goes wrong with your terabyte drive. Tiffany: I got to go. I'm out of here. Ben: That’s a lot of data to be used whereas if you have two 500’s at least if something goes wrong with one of them. Tiffany: And they are a lot smaller so if you take them with you, you travel the portable ones. That means they are this size right now for 500. It’s amazing to me. Ben: That’s true although the smaller aren’t really much cheaper. Tiffany: Well— Ben: Because they’re smaller. Tiffany: Well, they are not much cheaper but at least you have the double safety. Now it doesn’t have that what you call it data something the new link? Ben: It doesn’t have the eSATA. Tiffany: eSATA? Ben: That’s true. Although for backup so you don’t need that much speed usually. I mean it’s not like you're in video editing. That’s what I like these drives for is great for video editing and shuffling stuff around because you can use the fast interfaces. Tiffany: That would be great for video editing and of course you’re going to use this with the MacBook because the new one that came out, the 13-inch because it does not have— Ben: That’s true when you could use with USB. Tiffany: But not FireWire which is new in the medium one so it does would be like a MacBook Pro sort of companion right and the other thing that I notice is it’s got this ridiculous bright blue light. I mean it’s like blinding can we plug this in. See we have to show you this. Ben: We can plug this in. So you don’t like the light. You know it’s just not the right shade of blue. Tiffany: You know it needs to be more of an aqua and a little less bright. Ben: Hold on. Hold on, I’m plugging it in. Tiffany: No, It’s just so bright. It’s like it lights up the entire room if the room start so, if you computer anywhere here. Ben: That is pretty bright right there you see that. Tiffany: I mean it’s great to know that it’s on and it’s working especially now that I only have one. Ben: That’s right. Put it in dark environment, well that is going to—I don’t know if you get this, see that. Is that on? Tiffany: It’s super bright. Ben: It is super bright look at that. Tiffany: So anyway other than that, I mean I like the form. I mean that’s what it says and— Ben: So it should be like a button where you can have turn off the light or dim it for something. Tiffany: That would be nice. Ben: So what do you give to this? Tiffany: I’m going to give this, 4 out of 5. Today is pretty good considering. Ben: Almost like your terabyte right there, you can see that? Tiffany: I don’t know unless you're video editing or you know doing the big things that you do for your average consumer. I don’t know if they’re quite need this drive as of yet. So that would be my end of bright light. Ben: 4 out of 5? Tiffany: Four. Ben: And I’m going to give it 5 out of 5 because I’m on the bright light. I like the bright light. Bright light is good. It gets you into the bathroom at night when it is in dark room. Tiffany: You can use it as a flashlight. I can’t see. Ben: So I’m going to give it 5 out 5 because I think it’s a perfect drive for no matter what you have to hook it up to. It’s a great transportation drive to give to someone. If I have to give big files to somebody I know they’re going to have one of those interfaces so definitely going to have this. Tiffany: Wow that’s nice. It’s at work’s course. This is a work course drive. Ben: Indeed 4 out of 5 for Tiffany, 5 out 5 for me, 9 out 10 for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro from other world computing, a great big work course drive. Tiffany: Yes, it is. Ben: Yes and we have another review coming up in a moment so please stay tuned. Ben: And we’re back in the second spotlight today. We are looking at this little device here which doesn’t look like it but it’s actually a printer. Tiffany: It is a small printer, yes. Ben: It is small printer. This is the Canon iP90. Tiffany: Pretty lightweight. Ben: It runs with the old joke, the iP90 freely you know. Okay, bad joke. This is the Canon iP90 and as you can see it’s a very small, solvate looking printer. Tiffany: It’s great for portability Ben: Yes and it opens up like so. Tiffany: And that’s where the features in. Ben: And paper is inserted like so. Tiffany: I actually got two of these over the course of last year. Ben: You got two of these? Tiffany: Two. Ben: The Canon iP90, Canon Pixma. Tiffany: I thought it was new. Ben: You bought one this when they were brand new. Tiffany: Like 349’s when they were first came out. Ben: They’re only 249 now I’d like to mention that now. Tiffany: Sometimes add price a little bit. They really are great for portability so I will say that if you’re on the go. Ben: Somebody prints from the car or something. Tiffany: Yeah. Now if you wanted to have complete accessibility outside the power source and you need a battery, except for battery. Ben: Which you can get for the battery. You can get a battery for this. Tiffany: And then its not Bluetooth compatible or WiFi so there is a component that you can buy. Ben: You can buy a Bluetooth thing for it. Tiffany: It’s like a $100.00 right around there somewhere. So, I remember looking into that thing, and it is really expensive. Ben: So, 249 plus like the 80 for the battery plus like a 100 for Bluetooth. So, if you want total portability— Tiffany: It couldn’t cost you lot more. Ben: But you don’t have to. I put this on the car. I have one those power inverters that you plug it into cigarette lighter. Tiffany: Which is a good idea? Ben: Yeah that is for 20 bucks so it’s not expensive and then I just plug a USB cable. Tiffany: And then it does work. What it gets more expensive is that the in card this is really a tiny. They don’t last very long and they’re expensive. Ben: Yes and that’s true for pretty much all printers but for a small portable printer. You log on the printer, I know it will print. Tiffany: This one in particular and it prints slowly. Ben: Don’t hold back. If it prints slowly well, okay let’s do an actual demonstration here of the printing. Tiffany: Even in drafts even if you put in drafts it’s still not very fast. Ben: Even in draft mode. I’m going to print a mix document. It’s got a couple of graphics in it and a couple. I’m just going to put it in, let’s see here, quality and media. I’m just going to do plain paper and printer comes to documents. So let’s see how long this takes to print. Tiffany: And other than that, the price. That’s my last issue with this. Ben: Here comes. Tiffany: For $150.00 its probably you know little more worth it. Ben: Pretty quiet. Tiffany: It is pretty quiet Ben: Not too loud. Tiffany: But if you need to print 10-page documents it’s going to be a bit. Ben: So you can see a print speed here. This is standard copy. Tiffany: The quality is good. Ben: The quality don’t look too bad. Tiffany: I like you know 50 cents a page. Ben: It’s not that bad. Tiffany: I’m just kidding, out of the print cost. Ben: You know I’m going to do here is as we do this I’m going to print one at like see if I could do like a draft quality here as you would talking about. Plain paper, I don’t know how do I do draft quality please girl. Tiffany: Go to— Ben: Color, paper it may not have in the back. Tiffany: Quality and media right there. Ben: It was and then there has this plain paper and Grace got here. Tiffany: Grace count. Ben: See if it’s better. So there we are. This is a document that we just printed. Nice printing color and color looks okay. What do you think. Tiffany: Yeah, I mean its okay. Ben: Still wet, it doesn’t dry super fast like a lot of in Jet printers. Tiffany: And this where all your ink goes. I mean really mean this little ink. Ben: Here goes again, this one is in grace goes, it is not any faster. Most about this thing, isn’t it? Tiffany: Now I haven’t tried in a Windows side, there’s a draft button, I don’t know about the Mac. Ben: Right. Tiffany: But I do know there was really an issue where the Canon wasn’t compatible with the Mac, only a PC. Ben: Yeah, they fix that now. Tiffany: And then you have to buy the other one. Ben: Indeed. So I really like this printer. It is pricey. It’s 249 where you can get a in Jet printer for just 49. Now you know your 39 probably. How much were your lasting cheap? I mean that cheap? Tiffany: Yeah they’re really expensive. I just got a wireless printer for $100.00. Ben: It’s all-in-one. Tiffany: It was all-in-one, $100.00. The in-card last fight you know quite a bit longer that what I’ve used too. Ben: Yeah, this one is being courteous and not great on. So 249 is very expensive but at the same time it really does sure of a niche process if you need to print. Tiffany: Not much faster. Ben: Not much faster and it looks pretty crappy. Tiffany: You know than this one. Obviously yeah, it starts very good quality but you use less ink. Ben: But I got to tell you, I give this 4 out of 5. I think for what it does it does it well you know the design to do it a certain job and it does it well and if you don’t need affordable printer you can certainly find cheaper options. Tiffany: Well, I give it point 4 for portability and the rest of it, it’s overpriced, it’s expensive, it was disappointing so a one out of five. Ben: One out of a five? Oh my goodness, one out of five for Tiffany. What do I give it a four out of five? Tiffany: A four to five. Ben: A four to five, wow pretty big disagreement there. That’s five out 10 for the Canon Pixma iP90. Maybe something you should look at if you really need this particular feature. Tiffany: Portability. Ben: But other than that not a lot to redeem itself according to this young over here. Tiffany: Yeah, it’s not all that. Ben: That’s all the time we have for this week but go to their website at www.neo0-fight.TV. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you think. Tiffany: Yeah and what do you think this price should be? Ben: What do you think should it 249 for a dedicated you know like this too much. You know I thought it was fair. Tiffany: And can add WiFi, now it would be fantastic. Ben: That would be nice. I know that will not happen to you, of course so much. Tiffany: Yeah, I know but you know you can put this thing anywhere really you can put this anywhere. Ben: And if you have to travel an extra 30 seconds take a look at this. Andy: Hey, I’m Andy Walker. I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista on it or maybe get an old XP computer that you’ve upgraded. We’ve just created an amazing new DVD. It will teach you everything you need to know about a new Operating System from Microsoft it’s called Getting Started with Windows Vista. In this DVD, there are three sections. One is Out of the box. What do you need to do as soon as you start up Vista? Number two is Vista Essentials, things you need to know everyday to make a computer experience amazing Anti-Virus, security, all kinds of new features that Vista offers and finally the tips and tricks. Things you need to know that nobody else would have told you to make you a Vista Guru. For more information, check out our website at GettingStartedVideo.com.

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OWC 1TB Mercury Elite Hard Drive Review

Tiffany: Hi, there and welcome to Neo-Fight.TV the technology show for the not so geeky. My name is Tiffany Young.

Ben: And I’m Ben Freedman and today on the show we are going to be looking at this nice piece of aluminum.

Tiffany: You get so excited over here obviously.

Ben: You know what it’s a hard drive and I love this really cool, fast hard drives.

Tiffany: For me, I'm like that is a perfect shade of lip gloss. I mean this is cool, yeah.

Ben: This is by OWC.

Tiffany: What is it?

Ben: It’s a hard drive. It’s a door stop and it’s a good door stop. See it’s hard to move. This is by OWC. This is the Mercury Elite Pro and this is a 1 TB hard drive so it’s huge but you can get smaller amounts too. You don’t have to go with the terabyte but you can get lower amounts of hard drive in there.

Tiffany: Say 250, 500, 750.

Ben: Very good.

Tiffany: And it’s a sort of combination between.

Ben: Yeah and what’s really cool about this drive is the number of ports it has. Take a look on the back here. You’ve got a USB port so if you have just USB on your computer you can use USB to hook up. FireWire, if you have the faster FireWire, especially FireWire 800 that they have on Macs you can use that or if there is new eSATA port which is this cool new port that only a few computers have now but more and more starting to have them and you plug it in there it’s like a direct link inside your computer. It is fast as having an internal hard drive.

Tiffany: Wow that’s pretty impressive.

Ben: So where USB is of course is much, much lower than having an internal.

Tiffany: Well, with my fear with the terabyte and I have a terabyte too.

Ben: You have one?

Tiffany: I have one terabyte but this I put everything on it.

Ben: That is not the same as over bite you know that. It’s a terabyte. You haven’t over bite.

Tiffany: You say over bite? I put everything on it and now my fear is that I have to buy I'm going to lose it.

Ben: Yeah.

Tiffany: So I have to buy another terabyte to back up my terabyte which I should have done which get you 500. So I can back up you know whatever. The first one they are a little bit less expensive.

Ben: Much less expensive.

Tiffany: And I’ve all ready solve my issue because even with 250 it’s like a standard. The standard computer right now is about 250 gigs.

Ben: Right.

Tiffany: I don’t need a terabyte quite yet and now I realized that I haven’t printed a photo in like three years and it’s all on this terabyte and not back up.

Ben: That’s a good point because if something goes wrong with your terabyte drive.

Tiffany: I got to go. I'm out of here.

Ben: That’s a lot of data to be used whereas if you have two 500’s at least if something goes wrong with one of them.

Tiffany: And they are a lot smaller so if you take them with you, you travel the portable ones. That means they are this size right now for 500. It’s amazing to me.

Ben: That’s true although the smaller aren’t really much cheaper.

Tiffany: Well—

Ben: Because they’re smaller.

Tiffany: Well, they are not much cheaper but at least you have the double safety. Now it doesn’t have that what you call it data something the new link?

Ben: It doesn’t have the eSATA.

Tiffany: eSATA?

Ben: That’s true. Although for backup so you don’t need that much speed usually. I mean it’s not like you're in video editing. That’s what I like these drives for is great for video editing and shuffling stuff around because you can use the fast interfaces.

Tiffany: That would be great for video editing and of course you’re going to use this with the MacBook because the new one that came out, the 13-inch because it does not have—

Ben: That’s true when you could use with USB.

Tiffany: But not FireWire which is new in the medium one so it does would be like a MacBook Pro sort of companion right and the other thing that I notice is it’s got this ridiculous bright blue light. I mean it’s like blinding can we plug this in. See we have to show you this.

Ben: We can plug this in. So you don’t like the light. You know it’s just not the right shade of blue.

Tiffany: You know it needs to be more of an aqua and a little less bright.

Ben: Hold on. Hold on, I’m plugging it in.

Tiffany: No, It’s just so bright. It’s like it lights up the entire room if the room start so, if you computer anywhere here.

Ben: That is pretty bright right there you see that.

Tiffany: I mean it’s great to know that it’s on and it’s working especially now that I only have one.

Ben: That’s right. Put it in dark environment, well that is going to—I don’t know if you get this, see that. Is that on?

Tiffany: It’s super bright.

Ben: It is super bright look at that.

Tiffany: So anyway other than that, I mean I like the form. I mean that’s what it says and—

Ben: So it should be like a button where you can have turn off the light or dim it for something.

Tiffany: That would be nice.

Ben: So what do you give to this?

Tiffany: I’m going to give this, 4 out of 5. Today is pretty good considering.

Ben: Almost like your terabyte right there, you can see that?

Tiffany: I don’t know unless you're video editing or you know doing the big things that you do for your average consumer. I don’t know if they’re quite need this drive as of yet. So that would be my end of bright light.

Ben: 4 out of 5?

Tiffany: Four.

Ben: And I’m going to give it 5 out of 5 because I’m on the bright light. I like the bright light. Bright light is good. It gets you into the bathroom at night when it is in dark room.

Tiffany: You can use it as a flashlight. I can’t see.

Ben: So I’m going to give it 5 out 5 because I think it’s a perfect drive for no matter what you have to hook it up to. It’s a great transportation drive to give to someone. If I have to give big files to somebody I know they’re going to have one of those interfaces so definitely going to have this.

Tiffany: Wow that’s nice. It’s at work’s course. This is a work course drive.

Ben: Indeed 4 out of 5 for Tiffany, 5 out 5 for me, 9 out 10 for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro from other world computing, a great big work course drive.

Tiffany: Yes, it is.

Ben: Yes and we have another review coming up in a moment so please stay tuned.

Ben: And we’re back in the second spotlight today. We are looking at this little device here which doesn’t look like it but it’s actually a printer.

Tiffany: It is a small printer, yes.

Ben: It is small printer. This is the Canon iP90.

Tiffany: Pretty lightweight.

Ben: It runs with the old joke, the iP90 freely you know. Okay, bad joke. This is the Canon iP90 and as you can see it’s a very small, solvate looking printer.

Tiffany: It’s great for portability

Ben: Yes and it opens up like so.

Tiffany: And that’s where the features in.

Ben: And paper is inserted like so.

Tiffany: I actually got two of these over the course of last year.

Ben: You got two of these?

Tiffany: Two.

Ben: The Canon iP90, Canon Pixma.

Tiffany: I thought it was new.

Ben: You bought one this when they were brand new.

Tiffany: Like 349’s when they were first came out.

Ben: They’re only 249 now I’d like to mention that now.

Tiffany: Sometimes add price a little bit. They really are great for portability so I will say that if you’re on the go.

Ben: Somebody prints from the car or something.

Tiffany: Yeah. Now if you wanted to have complete accessibility outside the power source and you need a battery, except for battery.

Ben: Which you can get for the battery. You can get a battery for this.

Tiffany: And then its not Bluetooth compatible or WiFi so there is a component that you can buy.

Ben: You can buy a Bluetooth thing for it.

Tiffany: It’s like a $100.00 right around there somewhere. So, I remember looking into that thing, and it is really expensive.

Ben: So, 249 plus like the 80 for the battery plus like a 100 for Bluetooth. So, if you want total portability—

Tiffany: It couldn’t cost you lot more.

Ben: But you don’t have to. I put this on the car. I have one those power inverters that you plug it into cigarette lighter.

Tiffany: Which is a good idea?

Ben: Yeah that is for 20 bucks so it’s not expensive and then I just plug a USB cable.

Tiffany: And then it does work. What it gets more expensive is that the in card this is really a tiny. They don’t last very long and they’re expensive.

Ben: Yes and that’s true for pretty much all printers but for a small portable printer. You log on the printer, I know it will print.

Tiffany: This one in particular and it prints slowly.

Ben: Don’t hold back. If it prints slowly well, okay let’s do an actual demonstration here of the printing.

Tiffany: Even in drafts even if you put in drafts it’s still not very fast.

Ben: Even in draft mode. I’m going to print a mix document. It’s got a couple of graphics in it and a couple. I’m just going to put it in, let’s see here, quality and media. I’m just going to do plain paper and printer comes to documents. So let’s see how long this takes to print.

Tiffany: And other than that, the price. That’s my last issue with this.

Ben: Here comes.

Tiffany: For $150.00 its probably you know little more worth it.

Ben: Pretty quiet.

Tiffany: It is pretty quiet

Ben: Not too loud.

Tiffany: But if you need to print 10-page documents it’s going to be a bit.

Ben: So you can see a print speed here. This is standard copy.

Tiffany: The quality is good.

Ben: The quality don’t look too bad.

Tiffany: I like you know 50 cents a page.

Ben: It’s not that bad.

Tiffany: I’m just kidding, out of the print cost.

Ben: You know I’m going to do here is as we do this I’m going to print one at like see if I could do like a draft quality here as you would talking about. Plain paper, I don’t know how do I do draft quality please girl.

Tiffany: Go to—

Ben: Color, paper it may not have in the back.

Tiffany: Quality and media right there.

Ben: It was and then there has this plain paper and Grace got here.

Tiffany: Grace count.

Ben: See if it’s better. So there we are. This is a document that we just printed. Nice printing color and color looks okay. What do you think.

Tiffany: Yeah, I mean its okay.

Ben: Still wet, it doesn’t dry super fast like a lot of in Jet printers.

Tiffany: And this where all your ink goes. I mean really mean this little ink.

Ben: Here goes again, this one is in grace goes, it is not any faster. Most about this thing, isn’t it?

Tiffany: Now I haven’t tried in a Windows side, there’s a draft button, I don’t know about the Mac.

Ben: Right.

Tiffany: But I do know there was really an issue where the Canon wasn’t compatible with the Mac, only a PC.

Ben: Yeah, they fix that now.

Tiffany: And then you have to buy the other one.

Ben: Indeed. So I really like this printer. It is pricey. It’s 249 where you can get a in Jet printer for just 49. Now you know your 39 probably. How much were your lasting cheap? I mean that cheap?

Tiffany: Yeah they’re really expensive. I just got a wireless printer for $100.00.

Ben: It’s all-in-one.

Tiffany: It was all-in-one, $100.00. The in-card last fight you know quite a bit longer that what I’ve used too.

Ben: Yeah, this one is being courteous and not great on. So 249 is very expensive but at the same time it really does sure of a niche process if you need to print.

Tiffany: Not much faster.

Ben: Not much faster and it looks pretty crappy.

Tiffany: You know than this one. Obviously yeah, it starts very good quality but you use less ink.

Ben: But I got to tell you, I give this 4 out of 5. I think for what it does it does it well you know the design to do it a certain job and it does it well and if you don’t need affordable printer you can certainly find cheaper options.

Tiffany: Well, I give it point 4 for portability and the rest of it, it’s overpriced, it’s expensive, it was disappointing so a one out of five.

Ben: One out of a five? Oh my goodness, one out of five for Tiffany. What do I give it a four out of five?

Tiffany: A four to five.

Ben: A four to five, wow pretty big disagreement there. That’s five out 10 for the Canon Pixma iP90. Maybe something you should look at if you really need this particular feature.

Tiffany: Portability.

Ben: But other than that not a lot to redeem itself according to this young over here.

Tiffany: Yeah, it’s not all that.

Ben: That’s all the time we have for this week but go to their website at www.neo0-fight.TV. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you think.

Tiffany: Yeah and what do you think this price should be?

Ben: What do you think should it 249 for a dedicated you know like this too much. You know I thought it was fair.

Tiffany: And can add WiFi, now it would be fantastic.

Ben: That would be nice. I know that will not happen to you, of course so much.

Tiffany: Yeah, I know but you know you can put this thing anywhere really you can put this anywhere.

Ben: And if you have to travel an extra 30 seconds take a look at this.

Andy: Hey, I’m Andy Walker. I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista on it or maybe get an old XP computer that you’ve upgraded. We’ve just created an amazing new DVD. It will teach you everything you need to know about a new Operating System from Microsoft it’s called Getting Started with Windows Vista.

In this DVD, there are three sections. One is Out of the box. What do you need to do as soon as you start up Vista? Number two is Vista Essentials, things you need to know everyday to make a computer experience amazing Anti-Virus, security, all kinds of new features that Vista offers and finally the tips and tricks. Things you need to know that nobody else would have told you to make you a Vista Guru. For more information, check out our website at GettingStartedVideo.com.

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OWC 1TB Mercury Elite Hard Drive Review

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