OWC Envoy Pro

Name: OWC Envoy Pro USB 3.0 Portable Enclosure for select SSD/Flash Drives from most 2013 & later Macs
SKU: OWCMAU3ENPRPCI
Price: 99.75 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.75 (20 reviews)

Portable, Bus-Powered USB 3.0 Enclosure
For Apple Flash SSDs (June 2013-Current Mac Models)

Mac / PC / USB 3.0

Hit the road with high-performance.

Build your own portable PCIe SSD drive¹
Repurpose any Apple factory-installed PCIe SSD
Outstanding USB 3.0 speeds up to 500MB/s
Award-winning aluminum design

Experience incredible portable performance in the palm of your hand. The OWC Envoy Pro combines elegance and functionality in sleek, portable external storage for Apple Flash SSDs (June 2013-Current Mac Models). Its aluminum body protects your drive and data, while its minimal size allows for simple stowing in coat pockets, backpacks or briefcases.

The USB 3.0 interface offers speedy transfer rates of up to 500MB/s and the Envoy Pro requires no AC power adapter making it the ideal plug and play USB bus–powered SSD Enclosure.

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48 Hour Warranty Service

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1. The OWC Envoy Pro enclosure is specifically designed for use ONLY with the factory SSD installed in select Apple Macintosh computers. Do NOT attempt to install or use OWC Aura or Aura Pro X SSDs in the Envoy Pro as you may damage the OWC drive, the enclosure, or both, and such damage is not covered under warranty.

2. The OWC Envoy Pro enclosure is not currently compatible with Apple PCIe NVMe drives. Please see the Knowledge Base article on Envoy Pro (PCIe): Apple Stock Drive Compatibility for further details.

The OWC Envoy Pro can fit SSDs from: Learn how to find your Mac's model ID

Mac Pro

(December, 2013)

Model ID: MacPro6,1

2.7GHz 3.0GHz, 3.5GHz, 3.7GHz

Detailed specs

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MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2015)

(March 2015)

Model ID: MacBookAir7,2

1.6GHz i5, 2.2GHz i7

Detailed specs

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MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2015)

(March 2015)

Model ID: MacBookAir7,1

1.6GHz i5, 2.2GHz i7

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MacBook Air (13-inch Early 2014)

(April, 2014)

Model ID: MacBookAir6,2

1.4GHz, 1.7GHz

MacBook Air (11-inch Early 2014)

(April, 2014)

Model ID: MacBookAir6,1

1.4GHz, 1.7GHz

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013)

(June, 2013)

Model ID: MacBookAir6,2

1.3GHz, 1.7GHz

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013)

(June, 2013)

Model ID: MacBookAir6,1

1.3GHz, 1.7GHz

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina display Mid 2015)

(May, 2015)

Model ID: MacBookPro11,5

2.5GHz, 2.8GHz

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina display Mid 2015)

(May, 2015)

Model ID: MacBookPro11,4

2.2GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.8GHz

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina display Early 2015)

(March, 2015)

Model ID: MacBookPro12,1

2.7GHz, 2.9GHz, 3.1GHz

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display 2014)

(July, 2014)

Model ID: MacBookPro11,3

2.5GHz, 2.8GHz

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display 2013 - 2014)

(October, 2013 - July, 2014)

Model ID: MacBookPro11,2

2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.8GHz

MacBook Pro (13-inch Retina Display 2013 - 2014)

(October, 2013 - July, 2014)

Model ID: MacBookPro11,1

2.4GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, 2.9GHz, 3.0GHz

iMac with Retina 5K display (27-inch Late 2014)

(October 2014)

Model ID: iMac15,1

3.5GHz i5, 4.0GHz i7

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iMac (27-inch Late 2013)

(September, 2013)

Model ID: iMac14,2

3.2GHz i5, 3.4GHz i5, 3.5GHz i7

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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2013)

(September, 2013)

Model ID: iMac14,1; iMac14,3

2.7GHz i5, 2.9GHz i5, 3.1GHz i7

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Detailed specs iMac14,3

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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2014)

(June, 2014)

Model ID: iMac14,4

1.4GHz i5

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Mac mini (Late 2014)

(October, 2014)

Model ID: Macmini7,1

1.4GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz

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Includes

OWC Envoy Pro USB 3.0 bus-powered* storage enclosure
Carrying case
High-quality double-shielded connecting cable:
- USB 3.0 (Micro-B to Standard-A)
Quick Start Guide
1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
Assembly Manual & User Guide (536KB) (Download Only)
Recommended item (not included): NewerTech MacBook Pro with Retina Display Tool Kit. All the tools you need to install the OWC Aura Pro drive into a MacBook Pro Retina display and the original factory SSD drive into the OWC Envoy Pro.

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Envoy Pro Specifications:

Software Requirements

OS
- OS X 10.3 or later
- Windows XP or later
- Linux OS with support for USB 3.0
Driver
- Driver not required

Hardware Requirements

Mac or PC featuring USB 3.0 interface

Bootability

Any Mac that supports booting via USB

Interface (Chipset)

(1) USB 3.0 Micro-B (PLX USB 3380)

Performance

Up to 500 MB/s Read and Write
Note(s)
- Speeds will vary based on drives used, setup, and other factors.

Power

Operation
- Bus-powered via USB port
Note(s)
- Requires USB 3.0 standard powered port. USB 2.0 use not supported or recommended.

Environment

Environmental (Operating)
- Dependent on mechanism installed
Environmental (Non-Operating)
- Dependent on mechanism installed

Dimensions

Height: 0.4 in (1.0 cm)
Width: 2.1 in (5.3 cm)
Length: 4.5 in (11.4 cm)

Weight (without drive)

3.4 oz (96.4 g)

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n MAU3ENPRPCI UPC#: 812437021219

Reviews

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.7 / 5 19 out of 20 (95%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Reviewer: LoveGreatProducts Location: Canada Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Product worked exactly as expected and delivery faster than expected. October 26, 2018 My MacBook suddenly stopped working. The repair shop gave me the hard drive so that I could back-up my data and continue working on a project that I was in the middle of at the time. I ordered this enclosure and the special screw driver set. Within three days I received the products and borrowed a friend's MacBook to back up my data and continue working on my project.

I was amazed at how fast the items arrived considering they were shipped from the US to Canada.

The manual that came with the enclosure had an exhaustive list of MacBook models that it was compatible with. My particular model wasn't listed in the little manual but I went ahead and installed the hard drive in it as it was listed as comparable on OWC's website. It worked flawlessly.

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Reviewer: Horace

Rating: 5/5 great build quality October 8, 2018 This is a really well made device. Looks good, solidly built, nicely designed.

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Reviewer: DeanoL Location: Canada Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Great fit for a MBA SSD June 28, 2018 This was the perfect fit for the SSD from a failed MacBook Air. The enclosure is fast and nice and sleek.

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Reviewer: Martz

Rating: 5/5 High quality ssd enclosure June 24, 2018 This enclosure was exactly what I needed to get my data back from a late 2013 macbook pro which had the main logic board fried.

Really easy to use, with clear and precise instructions to assemble.

Very sturdy construction and it also comes with a good cable and a little pouch to store the enclosure in.

It worked right out of if box and got really fast file transfers.

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Reviewer: Rich001 Location: Noblesville, IN Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Got my data back!!! April 12, 2018 Great product. I was able to get all my data back! What a relief. The drive enclosure has very good quality aluminum casing and USB 3 cabling. Download speeds were very good. I used this on a dead Macbook Air 13" Early 2015 256 GB SSD drive with no problems. I did have to initially find drive with the Disk Utility, after entering password to access data. Working like a charm. Very happy with product. Thanks OWC!

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Reviewer: Elvis Location: Germany Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 This product has great features February 15, 2018 I would recommend this item to a friend! Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: FDiaz Location: Guatemala Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Nice and useful device ... January 15, 2018 I would recommend this item to a friend! Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: TheTechBuilder Location: ORLANDO FL USA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 A Great Data Recovery Solution October 9, 2017 My Mac needed to be repaired by Apple Care but they could not guarantee that my data would be safe when sent off. SO.... I needed to get the proprietary SSD M2 drive out of the laptop get the data off and then re-install the drive and send it off for repairs. Thanks to Jeremy Z. for his patience and research time necessary he found this OWC Envoy Pro that could help me. 2 days later I had the part and the data was retrieved and my Mac was sent off for repairs. AGAIN MacSales OWC has helped me greatly !!!

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Reviewer: EricJBruno Location: New York Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Awesome product March 10, 2017 MacSales has always gone above and beyond with their products and their service. I've always been satisfied with the quality, performance, and prices. Always happy.

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Reviewer: ouss Location: NY Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Amazing USB 3.0 Portable Enclosure March 7, 2017 i just buy this Enclosure to read my SSD from my late 2013 MacBook pro after i get a logic board issue, so really it work very well also i'm able to boot from the Enclosure on my iMac and i can access all my file also run any application and i get SSD sped up to 290MB so it's very fast, really i like it

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Reviewer: Phunx Location: Whitby, Ontario Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Great product January 8, 2017 This product works perfect and makes it easy to retrieve your data if your MacBook crashes.

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Reviewer: GavinD Location: Auckland , NZ Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great way to reuse an SSD December 8, 2016 I upgraded my old laptop post a screen break and needed a lot of the stuff left on my old drive so found thos case and now have it in use, Its beautifully made from aluminum so matches the MacBook pro and is small and compact.

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Reviewer: legendindisguise Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Perfect Case November 8, 2016 I ended up buying this hard drive case while I was on travel as I ended up corrupting my boot partition on my MBP. Spoke with a rep who was very helpful and quick to respond to my questions. I got the case two days after ordering, along with the correct screwdrivers. Got the internal drive out, installed it into the enclosure and was back up and running within 10 minutes.

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Reviewer: Manolo Location: Toronto Ontario Canada Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Envoy Pro Enclosure September 9, 2016 the enclosure works well with my ssd hard drive. I have no issues with it. It works like anything external hard drive.

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Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 Everything worked really well!! August 3, 2016 Postage was very fast and the unit was exactly what I wanted.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Nyc Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Worked flawlessly April 21, 2016 It took me less than 15 minutes to extract the sad from my MacBook Air put it in the enclosure and access it on another Mac. Got all my data back from a water damaged Air.

Expensive but probably worth it.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: MN Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 4/5 The only product that works with Apple SSDs March 12, 2016 After I upgraded my Macbook Pro to a 1TB SSD, I had my old 512 GB drive, but I couldn't use it, so it just sat in an antistatic bag for over a year. When I saw this, I ordered it right away, and am happy to be able to use my old drive as a secondary disk.

The only bad thing about it is that it's speeds are nowhere near the drive when it is installed in the computer - With the drive in the computer, I see speeds of 600-860 MB/s R/W, with it in the envoy pro, I see speeds of 200-360MB/s R/W. This is with the drive about half full, it will get much slower if you let it get more than 90% full.

Other than the speed issues, the enclosure works well. It's milled from aluminum and matches the look and feel of my macbook pro very well. It is bootable, so I'll probably partition it and use it as a bootcamp / mac os upgrade test disk.

It would have been great to have this in 2014 when I upgraded my SSD, as in order to transfer my data from my old SSD to my new one, I had to back up my old SSD to an external drive and then restore it to the new SSD, with this enclosure, it would have been much easier and faster.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Raleigh, NC Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Life Saver January 26, 2016 I dumped water in my MacBook Pro (late 2013) and ruined the computer. The Apple store confirmed the motherboard was shot, but the hard drive was fine. I bought a replacement Mac and Apple said they could restore my data, but it would take 3 days. I ordered the OWC Envoy Pro while I was in the Apple store and had it shipped overnight. Less than 24 hours later I had my data restored on my new machine. The OWC enclosure was a little pricey, but well worth the cost.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Providence, RI Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Saved my tush January 3, 2016 When Apple couldn't, OWC could. I unfortunately dropped a gallon of water on my 15inch Macbook Pro. Apple was unable to recover the information (or refused to, take your choice of words). After installing my SSD in the enclosure, perfection, instant success, saved all of my data, and now I have a super fast time-machine thats portable. Happy customer, will come back again and again.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: wien Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 1/5 is very bad, does not boot January 2, 2016 is very bad, it also write on facebook! does not boot

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Response from MacSales.com, Technical Support January 6, 2016 The solution is fully bootable on a USB 3.0 equipped Mac (or PC that can boot via USB) and we are certainly happy to work with you to resolve any OS installation support, etc. that could be needed. We do not understand the reference to Facebook with respect to the drive operation. Thank you.

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Reviewer: foulgernz Location: Auckland New Zealand Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Expensive but Invaluable November 26, 2015 Whilst it is somewhat expensive and the overseas freight charge make it even more so, It is the only device available for newer Apple and Samsung SSD's. In my work I use it to test SSD's or to retrieve data from damaged computers and I find it invaluable. Sometimes it doesn't connect straight away at boot up (on a Macbook Pro retina) but unplugging it and plugging it back in restores functionality. Having said that, it is extremely well made and comes with a pouch for storage. Its paid for itself by now and is a valuable addition to my toolkit.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Walla Walla, WA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Worked great. August 10, 2015 Needed to recover data from a MacBook Air that would not boot. I removed the SSD card and put it in this enclosure and was able to recoiver everything. I coudn't be happier.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

*Requires USB 3.0 standard powered port. USB 2.0 use not supported or recommended.

OWC Envoy Pro

Portable, Bus-Powered USB 3.0 Enclosure For Apple Flash SSDs (June 2013-Current Mac Models)

Includes

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Envoy Pro Specifications:

Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Bootability

Interface (Chipset)

Performance

Power

Environment

Dimensions

Weight (without drive)

Reviews

Customer Ratings

Portable, Bus-Powered USB 3.0 Enclosure
For Apple Flash SSDs (June 2013-Current Mac Models)