Excellent enclosure. I love OWC products as a Mac user. I also own their optical drive enclosure. Great products!!!

Beautiful enclosure but very expensive for what you get Pros: - all metal design - well designed - aesthetically pleasing Cons: - very expensive for what it is - not as fast as it is claimed, tested with 6gbs rated drives - tested with different cables, - worth upgrading to a higher quality usb

I have disk enclosures that are up to 10 years old and still working. This one died after barely working for half year.

I have a couple of these with 16Tb enterprise class hard drives in them. Solid construction, easy to work with - and they look nice. The blue LED on the front is a little too bright for my tastes (arent they all?), so I moved the LED inside the case to a different position, and now the front just gently glows blue - which I much prefer.

Excellent product backed by a established company with excellent communication and customer support.

14 TB drive working with MacBook Pro. Drive boots quickly, read/write speed is fast. It makes a bit of noise but speed and reliability make this one a winner. Easy to install on Mac I need storage. I have huge Adobe Lightroom photo files (I use a DLSR with a 45MP chip so it generates a lot of data!) and although I know I am old fashioned, I have huge music files as well. So I keep a drive hanging off the Macbook to play music and work on pictures as well as to back up the work I do on the Mac. For some years I used a Western Digital 8 TB drive but as that began to runn out of room, I bought a 10TB drive from WD. What a disaster! I loaded up about 7TB worth of data, at which point the drive needed 10-20 minutes to boot and whenever I stopped actively using it, would shut down requiring a reboot. WD replaced it. In fact they replaced it twice and all three drives had the same flaw. Once the drive had more than 5TB of data on the drive it became unstable. Next I tried a Seagate 10 TB as an alternative, although I have some bad old history with Seagate reliability. Their 10TB was so noisy it was really degraded the value of music on the laptop and also showed an intermittent inability to boot, unless I fiddle multiple times with the connector attached to the drive So, I looked around for something else and I found the Mercury Elite Pro. Unlike its more highly publicized brethren, handles a 7.5TB load easily, and with another 6TB of headroom I hope to use it for several years. (I assume external drives like these have 2-3 years reliable life.) By the way, I am still using the old WD 8TB drives to back up the Mercury. But the 10TB drives from WD and Seagate were sore disappointments – a good deal of money spent on hardware that simply does not perform adequately

You can tell a lot about a product by examining the fit, finish, and overall build quality; the quality of these OWC external drive enclosure is first rate. They work well too, and with the front grill and metal case the drive doesnt get hot.

The aluminum enclosure is solid and helps get rid of heat from the hard drive. Really happy with this purchase.

Popped the drive in the OWC Mercury Elite RE Pro enclosure, formatted in Ex-Fat into 4 partitions to use with MacBook and PC. Comes with Power adapter, cable, stand, mounting screws for the drive and rubber pads to use instead of the stand if used lying on its side. Works like a charm! (Use the original enclosure cables or equivalent. If not runs at about 40MB/s). Happy purchase.

I bought this, expecting it would have some fairly fast, USB 3.2 transfer speeds, but was disappointed with the performance. The best it got was about 45mb/s. I mounted the same drive in another enclosure made by a different manufacturer, and it got speeds ranging from 110mb/s to 150mb/s. That tells me that this drive is no better than a 3.0 enclosure.