OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO MINI User Manual

OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Chapter 3 - Formatting
3 FORMATTING
3.1 Formatting your OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini on a Macin-
tosh with OS X (For a new drive, or to reformat an old drive)
Click on the “Initialize” button. (If this does not appear, open Disk Utility
located in /Applications/Utilities)
Select the device with no volumes attached to it; in this picture, that would
be the 320.07 GB OWC device. Click on the picture of the drive icon next to
the text.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This procedure will erase all data on the hard
drive in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini. Back up any important
data before proceeding!
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OWC MERCURY ELITE PRO MINI Specifications

General

Compatible operating systems	Windows MacOS Linux
Supported storage drive interfaces	Serial ATA
FireWire 400	Yes
USB 2.0 ports quantity	1
Cables included	eSATA, FireWire, USB
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 85 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 70 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 95 %
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 90 %
Material	Aluminum
Product color	Silver
Data transfer rate	3 Gbit/s

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	139.7 mm
Width	96.52 mm
Height	27.94 mm
Weight	330 g