OWC Mercury Elite Pro 7200 RPM Storage Solution w/USB 3.2 5Gb/s
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will
> 3 dayI use the drive for backup on my home system. The disk is quiet, works well and I really like the looks. It also has a bright blue activity light which I also like. The real stand out so far has been OWC product support. For me they were on point, friendly and FAST. I recommend them.
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Mr. H
> 3 dayI like that this works like my Apple AirPort Extreme Time Capsule with the Time Machine software . It was very easy to set up and install. I now feel secure in knowing my data is backed up daily without fail. For those of us with less Computer skills (Moderate) it was great to find something easy to work with. Also looks good visually with my iMac.
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Howell Schisler
Greater than one weekMet my expectations
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R. Sceptic
> 3 dayBought as a bare enclosure. Its well made and I like the look of it in person, and it sits well on the desk and feels stable and planted. Performance seems fine, and it runs quietly with a WD40EFZX in it. It comes with a universal power supply wall wart, but with a USA adapter, not an AU one. I contacted OWC - they are always very responsive - and they offered to sell me a brick style adapter, as they dont carry the international adapter plates for this PSU. Disappointing considering I bought it through amazon.au, not the US site. The screws supplied to hold the drive into the enclosure were not suitable: they have a large cylindrical head and when the drive was mounted with these the drive sled didnt fit in the housing without touching the sides, which defeats the isolation mount. I replaced them with normal drive screws and clearance was acceptable. A good enclosure, and Id buy it again, but some packaging mistakes prevent this from getting all the stars.
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T. Smith
> 3 dayI did not want to get into noisy fan disk enclosures, so got this and a 10TB Seagate Exo drive. Working great, and is very quiet! Its plugged into a hub into the USB-C port on 16 MacBook Pro
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David Ussell
Greater than one weekHigh quality case. If youre willing to pay a bit more to remove potential problems this is the case for you.
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songster1928
> 3 dayAfter years of failures with external Seagate and Western Digital drives... most lasted a while but nothing was truly reliable, I spent a little extra for a Mercury Elite. A year later, the drive is reliable and it is fast. Why not five stars? It is noisy. I store a lot of music on the drive and if it were quieter it would get five stars. Still, the reliability is a plus. I am sure that 10 gig in the cloud would also be reliable, BUT, I dont believe for a minute that anything in the cloud could not be hacked if someone were determined. So score two points reliability, two for speed and add one for soothing my paranoia and take away one point for the consistent clacking sound.
MERCURY ELITE PRO
External Data Storage for Work and Play
With up to 16TB capacity, Mercury Elite Pro offers the perfect blend of performance, reliability, and value in a desktop-sized external drive for all professional and personal data storage.
- Pro-grade performance: up to 283MB/s real-world speed1
- Spacious: up to 16TB capacity for music, videos, photos, business files, and games
- Easy backups: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
- Quiet: heat dissipating brushed aluminum 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
- Connect: includes high-quality double-shielded USB Type A-B connecting cable
- Deployment ready: preconfigured solutions undergo rigorous multi-step performance certification
The Mercury Elite Pro is up to the task with its rugged, solid aluminum enclosure holding 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 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
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 or place it horizontally with 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 directly attached to your Smart TV.2
CERTIFIED FOR DEMANDING USE
We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to all tech users. 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.
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 1.0TB of Mercury Elite Pro hard drive capacity, you can store up to:
- 200,000 photos
- 250,000 standard quality songs
- 38,000 high quality songs
- 200 high definition movies
- 85 minutes of 4K RAW footage
- 41.6 hours of GoPro 4K footage
- 4.3 million MS Office documents9, or 24 PS4/Xbox games
Note: 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.