Description
OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Storage Enclosure with USB 3.2 (5Gb/s). Add your own 3.5-inch SATA drive.
Pro-grade performance: up to 252MB/s real-world speed. Includes USB Type-B to Type-A cable.
Highlights
- Pro-grade performance: up to 252MB/s real-world speed
- Easy backups: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
- Space efficient: includes matching vertical stand
- Flexible: includes non-skid rubber feet for secure horizontal use
- Quiet: heat-dissipating, brushed aluminum chassis and fanless venting provide cool, nearly silent operation
- Rugged: built-in shock isolation protects drive
- Compatible: use with Mac, Windows, and Linux machines; PS4 and Xbox consoles; and Smart TVs
- Deployment ready: preconfigured solutions undergo rigorous multi-step performance certification
Continuing the Legacy
The Mercury Elite Pro began OWC’s rich, storied history of storage solution innovations nearly 20 years ago. It has lasted the test of time by continuing to offer an incomparable blend of performance, quality, and value in a single-drive storage solution. The latest generation upholds our commitment to excellence and offers customers convenient access to their data with even more space and higher transfer speeds.
An Essential External Solution for Everyone
Photos, music, and videos are a part of everyday digital life. Add in presentations, reports, record-keeping, and correspondence, and the result is a staggering amount of data that needs to be stored in a single, accessible location. The Mercury Elite Pro is an essential desktop drive for creative pros, small businesses, home office users, and families with ever-growing storage capacity needs.
Housed in a rugged, solid aluminum enclosure, the Mercury Elite Pro is built for modern data management with a high performance 3.5-inch 7200RPM hard drive with up to 16TB capacity. It can be used for a variety of personal and business needs including:
- 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
Purposefully Designed
Offering an ideal blend of form and function, the Mercury Elite Pro’s fanless, brushed aluminum chassis provides maximum heat dissipation to run quietly cool while the shock isolation design keeps the drive – and your data — safe and protected. It fits discreetly on any desktop with the included vertical orientation stand. You can also place it horizontally, using the included non-skid rubber feet, and even stack multiple units to create a capacity “tower of power”.
Ready for Play
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 attached directly to your Smart TV.
Gain Critically Needed Gaming Space
With their stunning realism, modern games have grown to an average of 40GB per game. That means PS4 and Xbox One gaming system’s standard 500GB internal drive will only hold 12 “regular” games. How do you play more games — including 4K games that are up to 100GB in size — without uninstalling other games? Easy … for every 1TB of Mercury Elite Pro capacity you add as external storage to your console, you’ll gain space to store up to 24 average-sized games. Besides eliminating the limitations of your internal capacity, you’ll gain the ability to offload the games you play most regularly and potentially load and save them faster.
Certified for Demanding Use
We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That’s why every Mercury Elite Pro pre-configured solution undergoes a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures it arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.
- Sequential read/write (max) performance numbers are based on testing 14.0TB Toshiba HDD with AJA System Test (4KFull resolution, 64GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, file per frame test).
- If movie playback from an external hard drive and movie format is supported by your Smart TV.
- PS4 gaming systems have an 8TB maximum external storage capacity.
Includes
(1) OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB
(1) USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-B to Type-A cable
(1) External power supply and cable
(1) Quick start guide
| Number of Bays | 1 |
| Drive Bays | 1 bay supporting: 3.5-inch SATA drives |
| Plug and Play | Yes |
| Boot Support | Mac only |
| Device Ports | (1) USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-B Port |
| Data Transfer Rate (Maximum) | USB 3.2 Gen 1 : Up to 5 Gb/s (or 625 MB/s) |
| Chipset | Storage Controller: JMicron JMS-567 |
| MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) | Varies depending on drive mechanism installed |
| Host Port Requirements | USB (USB-C or USB-A) or Thunderbolt (USB-C) port1 |
| Mac OS Compatibility | Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 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 12.x Monterey macOS 13.x Ventura macOS 14.x Sonom |
| 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 10 32-bit Edition Windows 10 64-bit Edition Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2022 Windows 11 |
| Driver Required | No |
| Other Requirements | macOS 10.6.8 or later required |
| External Power Adapter | Yes |
| Power Supply | External UL-listed universal auto-switching power supply |
| AC Input | 100-240V, 50-60Hz, 0.9A |
| DC Output | +12V, 3A |
| Security Slot | Yes |
| Power Button | Yes |
| Power/Activity LED | Yes |
| Housing Color | Silver |
| Housing Material | Aluminum |
| Dimensions | Height: 11.8 cm (4.6 in) Length: 19.5 cm (7.7 in) Width: 3.5 cm (1.4 in) |
| Weight | 500.0 g (1.10 lbs) |
| Certifications | cUL, PSE, CE, FCC, GS, NOM, S, CCC, BSMI, PSB, RCM, KCC, TUV |
| Ambient Temperature | Operating: 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C) Non-Operating: -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C) |
| Altitude | Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft) Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft) |
| Humidity | Operating: 8% to 90% non-condensing Non-Operating: 5% to 95% non-condensing |
| Noise | Varies depending on drive mechanism installed |
| Note | USB-C (USB or Thunderbolt) host connectivity requires USB-C to USB-A adapter (available separately) |
Compatibility
MacBookPro 2010 15-inch MacBookPro6,2 - A1286 - EMC2353
MacBookPro 2010 13-inch MacBookPro7,1 - A1278 - EMC2351
MacBookPro 2011 13-inch MacBookPro8,1 - A1278 - EMC2419
MacBookPro 2011 13-inch MacBookPro8,1 - A1278 - EMC2555
MacBookPro 2011 15-inch MacBookPro8,2 - A1286 - EMC2353
MacBookPro 2011 15-inch MacBookPro8,2 - A1286 - EMC2563
MacBookPro 2011 17-inch MacBookPro8,3 - A1297 - EMC2352
MacBookPro 2011 17-inch MacBookPro8,3 - A1297 - EMC2564
MacBookPro 2012 15-inch MacBookPro10,1 - A1398 - EMC2512
MacBookPro 2012 13-inch MacBookPro10,2 - A1425 - EMC2557
MacBookPro 2012 15-inch MacBookPro9,1 - A1286 - EMC2556
MacBookPro 2012 13-inch MacBookPro9,2 - A1278 - EMC2554
MacBookPro 2013 15-inch MacBookPro10,1 - A1398 - EMC2673
MacBookPro 2013 13-inch MacBookPro10,2 - A1425 - EMC2672
MacBookPro 2013 13-inch MacBookPro11,1 - A1502 - EMC2678
MacBookPro 2013 15-inch MacBookPro11,3 - A1398 - EMC2745
MacBookPro 2014 13-inch MacBookPro11,1 - A1502 - EMC2875
MacBookPro 2014 15-inch MacBookPro11,2 - A1398 - EMC2674
MacBookPro 2014 15-inch MacBookPro11,2 - A1398 - EMC2876
MacBookPro 2014 15-inch MacBookPro11,3 - A1398 - EMC2881
MacBookPro 2015 15-inch MacBookPro11,4 - A1398 - EMC2909
MacBookPro 2015 15-inch MacBookPro11,5 - A1398 - EMC2910
MacBookPro 2015 13-inch MacBookPro12,1 - A1502 - EMC2835
MacBookPro 2016 13-inch MacBookPro13,1 - A1708 - EMC2978
MacBookPro 2016 13-inch MacBookPro13,2 - A1706 - EMC3071
MacBookPro 2016 15-inch MacBookPro13,3 - A1707 - EMC3072
MacBookPro 2017 13-inch MacBookPro14,1 - A1708 - EMC3164
MacBookPro 2017 13-inch MacBookPro14,2 - A1706 - EMC3163
MacBookPro 2017 15-inch MacBookPro14,3 - A1707 - EMC3162
MacBookPro 2018 15-inch MacBookPro15,1 - A1990 - EMC3215
MacBookPro 2018 13-inch MacBookPro15,2 - A1989 - EMC3214
MacBookPro 2018 15-inch MacBookPro15,3 - A1990 - EMC3215
MacBookPro 2019 16-inch MacBookPro16,1 - A2141 - EMC3347
MacBookPro 2020 13-inch MacBookPro16,3 - A2289 - EMC3456
MacBookPro 2020 13-inch MacBookPro17,1 - A2338 - EMC3578 - M1
MacBookPro 2021 16-inch MacBookPro18,1 - A2485 - EMC3651 - M1
MacBookPro 2021 16-inch MacBookPro18,2 - A2485 - EMC3651 - M1 Max
MacBookPro 2021 14-inch MacBookPro18,3 - A2442 - EMC3650 - M1 Pro
MacBookPro 2021 14-inch MacBookPro18,4 - A2442 - EMC3650 - M1 Max
MacBookPro 2022 13-inch Mac14,7 - A2338 - EMC8162 - M2
MacBookPro 2023 16-inch Mac14,10 - A2780 - EMC8103 - M2 Pro
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac14,5 - A2779 - EMC8102 - M2 Max
MacBookPro 2023 16-inch Mac14,6 - A2780 - EMC8103 - M2 Max
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac14,9 - A2779 - EMC8102 - M2 Pro
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac15,10 - A2992 - EMC8407 - M3 Max
MacBookPro 2023 16-inch Mac15,11 - A2991 - EMC8408 - M3 Max
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac15,6 - A2992 - EMC8407 - M3 Pro
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac15,3 - A2918 - EMC8304 - M3
MacBookPro 2023 16-inch Mac15,7 - A2991 - EMC8408 - M3 Pro
MacBookPro 2023 14-inch Mac15,8 - A2992 - EMC8407 - M3 Max
MacBookPro 2023 16-inch Mac15,9 - A2991 - EMC8408 - M3 Max
MacBookAir 2010 11-inch MacBookAir3,1 - A1370 - EMC2393
MacBookAir 2010 13-inch MacBookAir3,2 - A1369 - EMC2392
MacBookAir 2011 11-inch MacBookAir4,1 - A1370 - EMC2471
MacBookAir 2011 13-inch MacBookAir4,2 - A1369 - EMC2469
MacBookAir 2012 11-inch MacBookAir5,1 - A1465 - EMC2558
MacBookAir 2012 13-inch MacBookAir5,2 - A1466 - EMC2559
MacBookAir 2013 11-inch MacBookAir6,1 - A1465 - EMC2631
MacBookAir 2013 13-inch MacBookAir6,2 - A1466 - EMC2632
MacBookAir 2014 11-inch MacBookAir6,1 - A1465 - EMC2631
MacBookAir 2014 13-inch MacBookAir6,2 - A1466 - EMC2632
MacBookAir 2015 11-inch MacBookAir7,1 - A1465 - EMC2924
MacBookAir 2015 13-inch MacBookAir7,2 - A1466 - EMC2925
MacBookAir 2017 13-inch MacBookAir7,2 - A1466 - EMC3178
MacBookAir 2018 13-inch MacBookAir8,1 - A1932 - EMC3184
MacBookAir 2019 13-inch MacBookAir8,2 - A1932 - EMC3184
MacBook 2009 13-inch MacBook6,1 - A1342 - EMC2350
MacBook 2010 13-inch MacBook7,1 - A1342 - EMC2395
MacBook 2015 12-inch MacBook8,1 - A1534 - EMC2746 - Core M
MacBook 2016 12-inch MacBook9,1 - A1534 - EMC2991 - Core M3,M5,M7
MacBook 2017 12-inch MacBook10,1 - A1534 - EMC3099 - M3,Core i5,i7
iMac 2009 21.5-inch iMac10,1 - A1311 - EMC2308
iMac 2009 27-inch iMac10,1 - A1312 - EMC2309
iMac 2009 27-inch iMac11,1 - A1312 - EMC2374
iMac 2010 21.5-inch iMac11,2 - A1311 - EMC2389
iMac 2010 27-inch iMac11,3 - A1312 - EMC2390
iMac 2011 21.5-inchiMac12,1 - A1311 - EMC2428
iMac 2011 21.5-inch iMac12,1 - A1311 - EMC2496
iMac 2011 27-inch iMac12,2 - A1312 - EMC2429
iMac 2012 21.5-inch iMac13,1 - A1418 - EMC2544
iMac 2012 27-inch iMac13,2 - A1419 - EMC2546
iMac 2013 21.5-inch iMac13,1 - A1418 - EMC2545
iMac 2013 21.5-inch iMac14,1 - A1418 - EMC2638
iMac 2013 27-inch iMac14,2 - A1419 - EMC2639
iMac 2013 21.5-inch iMac14,3 - A1418 - EMC2742
iMac 2014 21.5-inch iMac14,4 - A1418 - EMC2805
iMac 2014 27-inch iMac15,1 - A1419 - EMC2806
iMac 2015 21.5-inch iMac16,1 - A1418 - EMC2889
iMac 2015 21.5-inch iMac16,2 - A1418 - EMC2833
iMac 2015 21.5-inch iMac16,2 - A1418 - EMC2889
iMac 2015 27-inch iMac17,1 - A1419 - EMC2834
iMac 2017 21.5-inch iMac18,1 - A1418 - EMC3068
iMac 2017 21.5-inch iMac18,2 - A1418 - EMC3069
iMac 2017 27-inch iMac18,3 - A1419 - EMC3070
iMacPro 2017 27-inch iMacPro1,1 - A1862 - EMC3144
iMac 2019 27-inch iMac19,1 - A2115 - EMC3194
iMac 2019 21.5-inch iMac19,2 - A2116 - EMC3195
MacPro 2010 MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2314
MacPro 2010 MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2314-2
MacPro 2012 MacPro5,1 - A1289 - EMC2629
MacPro 2013 MacPro6,1 - A1481 - EMC2630
MacPro 2019 MacPro7,1 - A1991 - EMC3203
MacPro 2019 MacPro7,1 - A2304 - EMC3413
Mac Studio 2022 Mac13,1 - A2615 - EMC3988 - M1 Max
Mac Studio 2022 Mac13,2 - A2615 - EMC3988 - M1 Ultra
Mac Studio 2023 Mac14,14 - A2901 - EMC8292 - M2 Ultra
Mac Studio 2023 Mac14,13 - A2901 - EMC8292 - M2 Max
Macmini 2010 Macmini4,1 - A1347 - EMC2364
Macmini 2011 Macmini5,1 - A1347 - EMC2442
Macmini 2011 Macmini5,2 - A1347 - EMC2442
Macmini 2011 Macmini5,3 - A1347 - EMC2442
Macmini 2012 Macmini6,1 - A1347 - EMC2570
Macmini 2012 Macmini6,2 - A1347 - EMC2570
Macmini 2014 Macmini7,1 - A1347 - EMC2840
Macmini 2018 Macmini8,1 - A1993 - EMC3213
Macmini 2020 Macmini9,1 - A2348 - EMC3569 - M1
Macmini 2023 Mac14,12 - A2816 - EMC8180 - M2 Pro
Macmini 2023 Mac14,3 - A2686 - EMC8003 - M2
