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Leading technology solutions provider Other World Computing (OWC) will feature its award-winning line of Mercury Elite-AL FireWire, USB, and eSATA portable external hard drive storage solutions at the Associated Professional Photographers of Illinois Annual Trade Show, March 18 to 21.

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OWC continues it its mission to provide professional photographers with the value, reliability and storage solutions they need to succeed. The award winning OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro storage solutionsprovide up to an amazing 1.5 TB of storage in a compact, ultra shock resistant line, starting as low as less than ½ cent per photo, with a top-end storage capacity of 395,946 photos.

A favored provider to photographers, graphic artists, filmmakers and musicians, in 2006, the OWC Mercury Elite line became the first on the market to provide single drive storage up to 750GB; and RAID 0 Striped, RAID 1 Mirrored, and RAID 0+1 Striped Redundant Mirrored high performance storage configurations up to 1.5TB.

Starting at $109.99, Mercury Elite-AL Pro storage solutions come packaged with all necessary connecting cables, a two-year OWC warranty with additional extended HD manufacturer’s warranty of up to three years, plus a $200 software package that includes Intech SpeedTools utility suite and either EMC Retrospect or Prosoft Data Backup.

Renowned professional photographer Cindy Romano enjoys the speed, reliability and capacity of the Mercury Elite-AL Pro 500 GB RAID Dual Drive storage solution she usesin her day-to-day business.

“It’s got the capacity I need, and I like the mirror feature -- automatically saving to a second drive,” said Romano. “When I bring photos back from a shoot, I download the raw photos to my desktop, but also to the Mercury Elite mirror drive. It’s all about redundancy – back up, then back up the backup.”

Romano, well-known in the professional photography community, has attained a Master of Photography Degree, a Certified Craftsman Degree, and recognition as a Certified Professional Photographer through the prestigious Professional Photographers of America.

For more information about OWC external storage solutions, visit
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