OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini USB-C 10Gb/s Portable Storage Enclosure

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini USB-C Bus-Powered External Storage Enclosure for 2.5-inch SATA Drives

OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini USB-C 10Gb/s Portable Storage Solution. Universally USB compatible bus powered drive for saving, accessing, and backing up your work and personal life anywhere with Plug and Play ease.

The universally USB compatible bus-powered enclosure for saving, accessing, and backing up

Highlights

• Universally compatible: Plug and play with past, present, and future Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, and Android device
• Life ready: Save, access, backup, and edit work and personal files with up to 542MB/s real-world performance
• Easy backups: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
• Game on: Ideal for game storage with PlayStation and Xbox consoles
• Entertainment center: Watch videos, listen to music, and view pictures on your Smart TV
• Portable: Bus-powered and rugged to go from desktop to mountain top
• Bootable: Startup and launch apps in just seconds
• Quiet: Heat-dissipating, aircraft-grade aluminum housing and fanless venting provide cool, nearly silent operation
• Deployment ready: Pre-configured solutions undergo a rigorous multi-step performance certification
• Connected: Connect universally to any USB or Thunderbolt computer or device with the included USB-C cable with tethered USB-A adapter

Small Footprint. Big Possibilities
The Mercury Elite Pro mini was introduced over a decade ago to emulate its award-winning desktop-sized Mercury Elite Pro “sibling.” It has earned a stellar reputation for offering superior portable, bus-powered storage performance. This pintsized powerhouse’s latest evolution gives creative pros, small office/home office users, students, and families the speed and universal connectivity of a USB-C 10Gb/s interface. Go ahead, connect the Mercury Elite Pro mini to a USB port on any past, present, or future Mac or PC, or iPadOS, Android, or Chrome OS device. The included USB-C cable with tethered USB-A adapter lets you plug into nearly anything, anywhere.

Cuts the Cord
Complementing the convenience of not having to worry about connection ports, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is bus-powered so you can free yourself from power adapter limitations. Cut the cord and take high-performance storage where you need it... from the desktop to a mountaintop.

Ready for Everything
Available in hard drive or lightning-fast SSD configurations, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is ready for your demanding A/V, digital photography, professional music, graphics, and general data backup needs. Its rugged, aircraft-grade fanless aluminum enclosure offers near silent operation. Use it for a variety of business and personal needs:

• Pro-level video editing projects
• Time Machine and File History backups of important business data and irreplaceable personal photos
• Consolidating files from multiple smaller drives to a single location for faster, more convenient access
• Migrating data from an existing machine to a new computer
• Expanding game storage of console gaming systems
• Freeing up space on a computer's internal drive to improve performance

Store from Minutes to Millions
All the features and “technospeak” of an external drive don’t mean a thing if you don’t know how much of a particular file type it can hold. For every 1TB of your OWC drive capacity, you can store up to any of the following:

• 250,000 photos
• 250,000 standard quality songs
• 38,000 high quality songs
• 200 high-definition movies
• 41.6 hours of GoPro 4K footage
• 4.3 million MS Office documents
• 24+ PS4/Xbox games

Your Life’s Entertainment Center
The Mercury Elite Pro isn’t just all work and no play. Besides saving and backing up computer data or functioning as a workhorse drive on set or in the edit suite, it can be used to watch videos, listen to music, and view pictures through your gaming console or directly attached to your Smart TV.

Saves the Gaming Day
As a console gamer, you can never have enough storage space. Whether you have a previous gen PlayStation, Xbox, or the latest PS5 or Xbox Series X/S console, the Mercury Elite Pro mini lets you spend more time going for the win and less time worrying about storage limits. Maximize your new console’s internal storage for the latest titles by running backwards compatible PS4 and Xbox One games directly from the Mercury Elite Pro mini. You can also store PS5 and Xbox Series X/S games on the Mercury Elite Pro mini and transfer them faster than re-downloading to your console when you want to get your game on.

Certified for Demanding Use
We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That’s why the Mercury Elite Pro mini goes through a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures it arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.

OWC, Trusted by Pros & Enthusiasts the World Over
We build our hardware to the highest standards of reliability and performance. Because 100% reliability is always the goal, we rigorously quality test and back our hardware with an outstanding warranty and award-winning customer support.

The "Store from Minutes to Millions" storage examples for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may be different based on variety of factors including specific file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors. Storage estimates based on: 12-megapixel camera with 4MB image sizes, 4-minute average 4MB MP3 songs, 4-minute average uncompressed Apple Lossless (ALAC) songs, 1080p HD videos with 5GB average file size, 60FPS 24GB/hr, 250KB average MS Office document file size, 40GB average game sizes.

Sequential read/write (max) performance based on testing a 480GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro equipped Mercury Elite Pro mini connected to a MacBook Pro 15-inch 2019 (MacBookPro15,3) with 32GB RAM and 2.3GHz processor running AJA System Test (4K-Full resolution, 16GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, single file test)

Includes
(1) OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini
(1) USB Type-C to Type-C cable with tethered Type-C to Type-A adapter
(1) Quick start guide
1 Year OWC Fulfilled Limited Warranty

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
OS X 10.9 Mavericks
OS X 10.10 Yosemite
OS X 10.11 El Capitan
macOS 10.12 Sierra
macOS 10.13 High Sierra
macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 10.15 Catalina
macOS 11.x Big Sur
macOS 11.1 Big Sur
macOS 12.x Monterey

PC OS Compatibility
Windows 7 32-bit Edition
Windows 7 64-bit Edition
Windows Home Server 2011
Windows 8 32-bit Edition
Windows 8 64-bit Edition
Windows 8.1 32-bit Edition
Windows 8.1 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 32-bit Edition
Windows 10 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2016

Linux OS

Mobile OS Compatibility
iPadOS 13
iPadOS 14
Android 10.x
Android 11.x
Android 12.x

Other OS Compatibility
Chrome OS