For those of you with a spare 2.5-inch hard drive lying about after an upgrade or from an old laptop, OWC sent us this announcement on a new offering that might be of interest:

March 29, 2007, Woodstock, IL — Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today two new Mercury On-The-Go Hard Drive Enclosure Kits for 2.5” SATA hard drives. Priced at $39.99 with USB 2.0 and $54.99 with USB 2.0+eSATA interface options, OWC Mercury On-The-Go Kits let you build your own new portable hard drives or re-use your old SATA internal laptop hard drives to turn them into portable external drives that hook up to any computer via its USB 2.0 port. Why not upgrade your laptop’s internal drive and re-use your old drive in an OWC Mercury On-The-Go portable external case?

Cool Design – Shock Protection

Mercury On-The-Go Enclosure Kits feature a cool see-through design with shock protection for full portability for use on the road or in the office. Fully bootable, the enclosure kits include all the necessary cables to work with any computer with USB port for a light-weight storage device or a backup solution that travels with you wherever you go. The enclosures run silently and keep your drive cool with a built-in aluminum heat-sink under the hard drive and pass-through cooling vents on the top.

OWC, who last year was the first to introduce a FireWire 800 and 400/USB 2.0 2.5” portable enclosure for SATA 2.5” hard drives, provides the highest performance award-winning hard drive enclosures in the market. In addition to the OWC Mercury On-The-Go enclosures for SATA 2.5” laptop hard drives, OWC also offers 4 different Mercury On-The-Go models for IDE/ATA 2.5” laptop drives starting at $29.99.

The OWC Mercury On-the-Go Hard Drive Enclosure Kits for 2.5” SATA notebook hard drives will run you $39.99 with USB 2.0 and $54.99 with USB 2.0 and eSATA. For more information, check out OWC’s website.

Filed under: New Products