OWC Mercury Elite Pro

Name: OWC Mercury Elite Pro eSATA, FireWire 400/800 & USB3.1 Gen 1/2.0/1.1 Enclosure Kit
SKU: OWCME3QHKIT0GB
Price: 84.75 USD
Availability: InStock

0GB Enclosure Kit

Mac / PC / USB 3.1 Gen 1 / FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 Backwards Compatible) / eSATA

Outstanding Features

High Performance

Next-gen high-speed chipsets combined with the fastest SATA drive mechanisms available allow Mercury Elite Pro Solutions to deliver the fastest single drive transfer rates possible, up to 300 Megabytes Per Second!

High Reliability

A top-notch design and the best components ensure the Mercury Elite Pro Series is built to last.

High Portability

The compact and shock-resistant design has the Mercury Elite Pro Series going places! In addition, the Mercury Elite Pro offers (1) USB 3.1 Gen 1 (backward compatible with USB 2.0/1.1), (2) FireWire 800(1394B), and (1) eSATA ports for easy Plug and Play on virtually ANY system! Even the cables are included!

Style

Designed to complement any user's system, the Mercury Elite Pro was created in mind with the Mac Pro system as a starting point. As the pictures show, it's a fine storage solution for any computer.

Hard Drive Not Included – Needs 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive

OWC NOTE: This drive enclosure requires a 3.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive. Most computers produced since 2006 use Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. Please make sure that the drive you wish to use with this enclosure is compatible. If you need an enclosure for an ATA/IDE hard drive, click here. This drive enclosure can also utilize a 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive via an AdapatDrive sold separately.

48 Hour Warranty Service

OWC's Step-by-Step Install Video

How to install a Hard Drive in a
Mercury Elite-AL Pro Enclosure.

From day one, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Series has been designed to be everything you would hope for and more!

Includes

OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Drive Enclosure
36" High Quality Double Shielded eSATA connecting cable (eSATA – eSATA)
36" High Quality Double Shielded FireWire 800 connecting cable (9-9 Pin cable)
36" High Quality Double Shielded USB 3.1 Gen 1 Standard-B to Standard-A (backward compatible with USB 2.0/1.1) connecting cable
UL Listed U.S./International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v input, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 3 Amp output Power Supply (adapter plugs for International use sold separately). For replacement power supply, click here.
Vertical Stand
Mercury Elite Pro Assembly Manual & User Guide (1.3 MB)
1 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time

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Product Specifications:

Chipset

JMicron JMB355 (eSATA/Firewire)
JMicron JMS562 (USB)

Mechanisms Supported

3.5" Hard Drive SATA 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Port Configuration

USB 3.1 Gen 1 – (1) B Standard-B port
FireWire 800 – (2) 9 pin ports
eSATA – 1 port

Max Data Transfer Rate

USB 3.1 Gen 1 – Up to 300MB/sec
USB 2.0 – Up to 60MB/sec
USB 1.1 – Up to 1.5MB/sec
FireWire 800 – Up to 100MB/sec
FireWire 400 – Up to 50MB/sec
eSATA – Up to 300 MB/sec

Port/Interface Bootability

Can I use this solution as an external startup drive?
eSATA*: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
FireWire 800: Supported on Macs meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
FireWire 400: Supported on Macs meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
USB 3.0/3.1 Gen 1: Supported on Macs and PCs meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) Compliant

Macintosh System Requirements

Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2 compatible, OS X 10.1.x and later. Including 'Mavericks' 10.9.x (10.2 or later required for FW800 and USB 2.0)
USB 3.1 Gen 1: Macintosh with USB 3.1 Gen 1 interface, either built in or via USB 3.1 Gen 1 expander card.
USB 2.0: Macintosh with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via USB 2.0 expander card.
FireWire 800: Macintosh with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via FireWire 800 expander card.
FireWire 400: Macintosh with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via FireWire 400 expander card.
eSATA: Macintosh with eSATA interface, either built in or via eSATA expander card.
Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

Windows System Requirements

USB 3.1 Gen 1: Windows XP and later with USB 3.1 Gen 1 interface, either built in or via USB 3.1 Gen 1 expander card.
USB 2.0: Windows 2000 and later with USB 2.0 interface, either built in or via USB 2.0 expander card.
FireWire 800: Windows 2000 and later with FireWire 800 interface, either built in or via FireWire 800 expander card.
FireWire 400: Windows 2000 and late with FireWire 400 interface, either built in or via FireWire 400 expander card.
eSATA: Windows 2000 and later with eSATA interface, either built in or via eSATA expander card.

Linux Requirements

Linux compatible via supported USB and FireWire interfaces.

Power Supply

UL Listed U.S./International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v input, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 3 Amp output Power Supply (adapter plugs for International use sold separately). For replacement power supply, click here.

External Case Dimensions

1.5 in (W) x 9 in (D) x 4.6 in (H)

Total Shipping Weight

Approximately 3.0 pounds (1.36kg)

Compatibility Notes

The Mercury Elite Pro is not compatible with following eSATA card(s)
- NewerTech MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-2e

Product Manual

Mercury Elite Pro Assembly Manual & User Guide (1.3 MB)

*With certain eSATA interfaces an improperly dismounted message may appear following sleep. This message can be ignored.

Operating Environment:

Temperature

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Relative Humidity

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Shock

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Vibration

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

MTBF (hours)

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Warranty

1 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur – OWC is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

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Reviews

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 126 out of 131 (96%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Reviewer: Kamana Location: New York Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 The best of all spinning Hard Drives March 12, 2017 I am so happy that I am considering buying a second one for my Pro Tools HD System.

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Reviewer: BierMeister Location: Willow Springs, MO Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Easy to install a HD and looks great. February 6, 2017 Product was well packaged and arrived quickly. Easy instructions to install the HD. Quality of this enclosure is next to none. Would recommend this kit to anyone.

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Reviewer: RichInDC Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 So far, so good February 1, 2017 I've hooked up the box using the Excelsior card eSATA port and am happy with the speed. Only had it a couple of months, but seems fine. The one con is that I just got hearing aides and the operating noise is much louder than I anticipated. Aside from that, and assuming the reliability of the disks is as specified, I'm very happy.

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Reviewer: graytech Location: Bellevue, Wa Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Replaced failing Lacie enclosure January 26, 2017 I am very impressed with all my OWC purchases and this is no exception. I have used OWC drive enclosures on 2.5 and 3.5 drives. Always work, last, and exceed my expectations.

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Reviewer: fergrjls Location: Aguascalientes, México. Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 My "to go" drive for audio. January 16, 2017 I really enjoy this drive, actually a Full Sail University's teacher recomended me this particular drive to record with Pro Tools and it works great.

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Reviewer: DBChas Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 Pretty good, I must say January 6, 2017 In fact, just got it set up today to use for a rather unique purpose. It could hardly have been easier to set up, and I bought both enclosure and Toshiiba drive that comes inside. It was already mounted, so didn't need to mess with screws a whole lot.

The software that comes built-in actually does make it simple to partition--as you like, as well as to make those to the sizes you want or need. The drive is 2 TB, so lots to work with, though things went wrong in my case thanks to misinformation provided directly by Apple. Another story...

So long as this holds up, I can't see why it should't last a long while.

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Reviewer: KentOSan Location: Norfolk, VA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 As always, completly satisfied December 13, 2016 Have been dealing with OWC for several years. Although I don't buy a lot, every item that I have purchased (including this one) has been right on the money.

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Reviewer: PatrickR Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 A workhorse November 30, 2016 I use this drive in my profession (audio production) and it is being used 12-16 hours a day, every day, for over 3 years now! It has never faulted, it always mounts perfectly to my Mac Pro via USB 3 and gives me a solid and consistent read/write. I rely heavily on this drive and it can be relied heavily upon. Quality build and quality performance, worth every penny.

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Reviewer: jonb Location: NY NY

Rating: 5/5 great company great product November 28, 2016 I love to order product from this company. They provide excellent tech support, customer service, and returns when necessary. Recently we had a failure on a ocw drive that was replaced without question. Great Stuff

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Reviewer: Tachyon Location: Eagle River, AK Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Very elegant external enclosure November 16, 2016 This is my second enclosure of this type. The first one I had populated with a 4TB drive, and this one I wanted to use my own 8TB drive, as that capacity is not yet available pre-populated. Very sleek, and well designed. Very simple to add and secure the drive in the enclosure. The all aluminum chassis works well to dissipate heat from the drive, and it looks really nice. For users of older Macs, the Firewire 800 interface is efficiently fast.

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Reviewer: RPG6621

Rating: 5/5 Flawless November 14, 2016 Actually, I ordered this product and it arrived with a bad drive and I called MacSales and told them about it. It was amazing how fast another one was sent to me. I'm a long time customer of Mac Sales so I'm biased but I'm biased because the service is impeccable and the shipping is superb. I will always buy my Mac products here.

Jim

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Reviewer: Cletus

Rating: 5/5 After 3 years, still going strong November 12, 2016 I use this to clone a backup of the internal hd on my iMac. This creates a bootable external drive as well as backup. The Mercury Elite Pro 7200RPM eSATA/FW800 has worked perfectly and dependably. I recently bought an additional 2tb drive as well,

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Reviewer: Xercos Location: Spanish Fork, UT Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Nice product, easy to use November 1, 2016 Easy to set up and easy to use.

Easy to install a hard drive into; almost too easy. I had a couple of 1 TB hard drives from retired PCs and needed an external drive to use as a Time Machine backup. Adding the hard drive was a piece of cake, though sliding the foot onto the extruded aluminum case took a bit of force. You can swap drives out without moving the foot, anyway (I had to do the swap when the first drive I tried failed soon after I installed it).

Using the drive is, of course, dead easy. I use the FireWire 800 connection. The drive has been faithfully keeping me backed up at work ever since. I have another OWC drive at home doing likewise.

The enclosure is also beautiful, which I suppose isn't supposed to count, but there it is.

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Reviewer: Hotdog Location: Central OH Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 The TB Mercury Elite Pro has function verywell October 17, 2016 I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 1.0TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro 7200RPM eSATA/FW800/FW400/USB3.1 Gen 1 Storage Solution. Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: drglenn Location: Central VA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 4/5 OWC Mercury Elite Pro eSATA, FireWire 400/800 & USB 3.0/2.0/1.1 Enclosure Kit September 30, 2016 Solid, well-made, but not NOT inexpensive, drive enclosure. I would make an improvement or two - like having the power supply internal, and using a standard computer power cable. (I favor this design because if you have multiple OWC enclosures, it's too easy to confuse which power supply goes with which unit. THIS time, I'm going to label both the power supply and the drive enclosure. The one star drop is for the price and the power supply "feature/short-coming," depending on your point of view. I would have only docked it a half-star if that choice were available, because this single enclosure has one attribute that none of the muti-drive units have - NO FAN! An excellent improvement over the loud, squeaky, easy-to-fail fans in the larger models.

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Response from MacSales.com, Marketing September 30, 2016 Thank you for the feedback - you raise an interesting point and it’s a solid suggestion for us to look at additional information on our power adapters to note just which solutions a power adapter is supporting for our many customers utilizing multiple solutions from OWC. With respect to the fanless benefit of our single - while there is no beating a fanless in terms of a point of issue just completely eliminated from the equation, we would like to note our continuing obsession with reducing the audibility of all of our solutions and the fans utilized now on our Dual-Bay and Quad Bay solutions are exceptionally high end for nearly silent operation and further selected for high high longevity. With the fans quieted on these multi-drive enclosures we’ve been focused on design to reduce the noise audible from the drives themselves. SSDs of course are silent, so baffling and dampening noise from the spinning discs is something we’ve been successfully improving as well. As a further note, solutions like our OWC Drive Dock and the Thunderbay do avoid the power adapter labeling altogether with their built in power supplies vs. the external adapter. Thank you very kindly!

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Reviewer: John0 Location: Nashville Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 As advertized August 23, 2016 Arrived on time; easy to set up and even easier to use. Works flawlessly with my gear. The finish goes well with my iMac.

Would have liked it even better if it was smaller.

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Reviewer: Love2cycle Location: Silicon Valley Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Best Quality you can get August 14, 2016 OWC makes the best quality enclosures period. Once you have one you will get more and they look great on my desktop next to my iMac.

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Reviewer: murtle

Rating: 4/5 great except for the blue light August 5, 2016 The drive works as it should and was easy to instal. However, I do wish the manufacturer had made the LED that tells you it's alive less bright. You could use it as a night light it's so bright!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Durham NC Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 sturdy and dependable drive July 17, 2016 Great drive. I had a problem with the power cable and the OWC staff were really helpful. The drive is fast and portable and really dependable.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Roseburg, OR Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great product! June 13, 2016 As all of MacSales branded products it has performed flawlessly.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Ohio Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works great June 10, 2016 Easy to assemble. Good build quality. I put a fast disk in this to store older photos on when my laptop's internal drive is full (I have just under 50,000 in my Lightroom catalog), but I still want speedy access to the images when I want to edit them.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: New York Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Seems like a workhorse June 6, 2016 Haven't owned this baby very long yet - just a couple months - but it's handling everything I throw at it just fine.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Raleigh, NC Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Mac Mini is young again!! March 14, 2016 Hard drive on my MacMini (early 2009) finally gave up the ghost. It was still barely usable with frequent crashes, slow operation, and sometimes difficulty even recognizing the drive. This new one is larger and faster and works great. I'm running El Capitan and it really zips. I installed it myself with the help of the excellent OWC instructions. A bit tricky, but doable if you are comfortable with this sort of work.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Apple Valley, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Great storage unit February 6, 2016 I bought this OWC Mercury Elite Pro 3.0TB originally as a storage upgrade for my Verizon Fios video library but Verizon has made their "updated" system incompatible with these types of units so I am now using it as a secondary operating system for my Mac. My original hard drive is starting to slow down and I am now using the OWC unit as my primary operating system. Quite honestly it is faster than the original internal hard drive and I plan to use it in this capacity. I don't think I will be running out of storage with the 3.0TB capacity. Again, another superb product from OWC!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Minnesota Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 This product has the features I need January 11, 2016 I use this product because when I fill a hard drive with video clips I can take the hard drive out of This case and put another drive into it. This way you do not have to pay the price for a complete unit

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