OWC Mercury On-The-Go User manual

OWC Mercury On-The-Go
Assembly Manual
For PATA and SATA based enclosures

OWC Mercury On-The-Go SATA
Assembly Addendum
On page 8 and 9 of the OWC Mercury On-The-Go Assembly Manual,
there is a procedure change necessary. Instead of attaching the hard
drive to the rewire bridge card as the manual shows, you now need
to attach the hard drive to the heatsink and not attach the drive to the
bridge card.
Remove the 2 screws securing the heatsink into the acrylic enclosure.
Gently slide the heatsink out of the acrylic enclosure.

Set the aluminum heatsink aside for now.
Place your hard drive mechanism onto the bridge card and fully seat the
drive onto the connector.
Turn the bridge over and look through the screw holes. Make sure they
are fully lined up. Do NOT put any screws in!

Slide the bridge card with the hard drive into the aluminum heatsink -
there is a notch that the bridge card will slide into.
Secure the hard drive using 4 screws from the included plastic bag,
through the heatsink, into the hard drive. Don’t overtighten, start all 4
screws before fully tightening.
Gently slide the completed heatsink, drive, and bridge assembly into
the acrylic enclosure. Take the 2 Phillips screws you removed initially,
and 2 more from the included plastic bag and once again, don’t fully
tighten the screws, just start them, as you will need to rock the assem-
bly back and forth a bit to get all 4 screws started, then you can tighten
them. Note that there is a rubber mounting strip on the bottom of the
heatsink, that makes it a bit dicult to get the screws all the way in. You
may nd holding the enclosure in your hand, screws down, works best.

Here you see the OWC Mercury On-The-Go drive inserted into the
acrylic enclosure, ready to have it’s end cap screwed on. Turn to Page 10
in the of the OWC Mercury On-The-Go Assembly Manual to complete.

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Thank you for purchasing an OWC Mercury On-The-Go
external 2.5” drive storage enclosure!
This guide will get you up and running quickly, demonstrating
how to install your own 2.5” hard drive into the OWC Mercury
On-The-GO enclosure. Follow the step by step directions for the
model of enclosure you have purchased.
Please observe static
safe precautions before
proceeding. Discharge any
excess static electricity
safely before removing any
electronic component from a
protective anti-static bag.
Tools Required:
• A Phillips P0 screwdriver
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P0 screwdriver, we can highly
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Table of Contents: Page Number
System Requirements 3
Assembly of a SATA OWC Mercury On-The-Go Enclosure 4
Assembly of a PATA OWC Mercury On-The-Go Enclosure 11
Formatting (Windows, Macintosh) 17
General Operation 20
Technical Support 21

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System Requirements:
Macintosh with FireWire interface and OS 8.6
and above.
PC with FireWire interface and Windows 98 or
other OS with FireWire support
Macintosh with USB interface, either built in or
via 3rd party card. USB 2.0 drivers required for
use with Mac OS X, USB 2.0 not supported on any
other Macintosh OS. Mac OS 8.6 and above for use
with USB 1.1. USB 2.0 is fully backwards compatible
with USB 1.1.
PC with USB interface and Windows 98 or other
OS with USB support. USB 2.0 drivers required
for USB 2.0 use. Check with your OS manufacturer for
the availabilty of USB 2.0 drivers for your system, and
if your USB card supports USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is fully
backwards compatible with USB 1.1.
Macintosh with eSATA PCI Interface card.
eSATA requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Windows system with eSATA PCI Interface,
either built in or via 3rd party PCI eSATA card.
eSATA requires Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

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SATA enclosure assembly
There are 3 OWC Mercury On-The-Go drive enclosures for
SATA based hard drives.
They include:
• A FireWire 800 / USB 2.0 based model
• A USB 2.0 / eSATA based model
• A USB 2.0 based model
The assembly of these models is virtually identical.

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Begin by opening the box your OWC Mercury On-The-Go
enclosure arrived in.
Remove the contents of the box and lay the items out in front of
you.
(Note - each model includes dierent items, see the next page
for an itemized contents list for each enclosure variant)