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OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini

2.0TB 5400RPM
Bus-Powered, Multi-Interface Storage Solution

Mac / PC / USB 3.0 & 2.0 / eSATA
  • Mac
  • PC
  • eSATA
  • USB 3.0
High-performance and Plug and Play data storage/backup reliability with a fanless, bus-powered design
With your choice of a 2.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive OR Solid State Drive (SSD), the latest chipset, and USB 3.0/eSATA interfaces, the Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable Storage Solution delivers up to 600MB/s data transfer speeds for demanding data storage and backup needs. All that performance resides in an impact resistant, heat dissipating 5.5 in (L) x 3.8 in (W) x 1.1 in (H) brushed aluminum enclosure with super-quiet operation.

When you want high style in high performance storage, look no further than the Mercury Elite Pro mini. With the highest quality drive mechanism built into a shock resistant portable aluminum enclosure, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is ready to go wherever you need an A/V, Digital Photography, Professional Music, Graphics, General Data, and Time Machine ready storage solution.
  • Interfaces: USB 3.0 & 2.0; eSATA 6G
  • The USB 3.0 Micro-B port is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 cables (USB 3.0 standard A to Micro-B connecting cable is included)
  • All interface cables are included
  • Bus-powered via USB 3.0 (DC to USB connector included)
  • Data transfer speeds up to 600MB/s (via eSATA; 500MB/s via USB 3.0)
  • Perfect for digital photography, professional music, graphics, general data, and Time Machine
  • Portable size at 5.5in(L) x 3.8in(W) x 1.1in(H)
  • Brushed aluminum, impact resistant, heat dissipating enclosure
  • Super-quiet, fanless operation
  • Asmedia 1051E and 1456 high-performance chipset
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Upon receipt of your unit, OWC will make every attempt to service it and arrange shipping back to you all within 48 weekday (Monday-Friday) business hours, excluding U.S. national holidays. This warranty service timeframe does not include data recovery attempts, out of stock items/components, or upgrade/product replacements.

Please allow up to seven additional business days if requesting optional OWC Level 1 Data Recovery services.


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OWC and NewerTech single drive storage solutions come fully backed by an Industry-leading 48-hour turnaround time, with the option of complimentary Level 1 Data Recovery service for the first year. Please note that Level 1 Data Recovery services add additional time, up to one week, to the 48-hour turnaround.


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Mercury Elite Pro mini.
*When using eSATA connection, the use of a powered USB port or optional AC Adapter (not included) is required.

Includes

  • OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Bus-Powered, Multi-Interface, USB 3.0 & 2.0, eSATA Storage Solution with Hard Drive
  • 18 in (46 cm) High-quality eSATA connecting cable
  • 18 in (46 cm) High-quality USB 3.0 connecting cable
  • High-quality DC to USB connector
  • Mercury Elite Pro mini Assembly Manual & User Guide (Download only)

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Product Specifications:

Chipset

  • Asmedia 1051E and 1456 High-Performance Chipset

Standard Mechanism

    2.0TB Toshiba L200 Specifications:

    Specifications

    Form Factor
    2.5″ HDD
    Interface
    SATA 6.0Gb/s
    Capacity1
    2.0TB
    Formatted Capacity2
    1863GiB
    Rotational Speed
    5,400 RPM
    Cache / Data Buffer
    128MB
    Manufacturer Model Number
    HDWL120XZSTA
    Format
    Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

    Physical

    Height (max)
    9.5mm (0.374″)
    Width (max)
    69.85mm (2.75″)
    Length (max)
    100.0mm (3.937″)
    Weight (typical)
    117g (0.257 lbs)
    Bytes per Sector
    512e / 4096

    Reliability3

    MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
    600,000 hours
    Nonrecoverable Read Errors
    1 per 1014 bits read

    Performance

    Transfer Rate (Max)
    6.0Gb/s

    Environmental (Operating)

    Shock
    400 G max at 2ms
    Ambient Temperature (°F)
    32°F to 149°F
    Ambient Temperature (°C)
    0°C to 65°C
    Altitude
    -304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

    Environmental (Non-Operating)

    Shock
    1000 G max at 2ms
    Ambient Temperature (°F)
    -40°F to 149°F
    Ambient Temperature (°C)
    -40°C to 65°C
    Altitude
    -304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

    Acoustics

    Idle (Typical)
    2.3 bels
    1. 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.
    2. In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.
    3. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
  • 2.0TB Toshiba L200 Hard Disk Drive**

  • *1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

    **OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.

Drive Interface

  • SATA (Serial ATA)

Drive Cache Size

  • 128MB

Drive Rotation Speed

  • 5400 RPM

Port Configuration

  • eSATA – 1 port
  • USB 3.0 – (1) Micro-B port

Max Data Transfer Rate

  • eSATA – 600 MB/s
  • USB 3.0 – 500 MB/s
  • USB 2.0 – 60MB/s
  • USB 1.1 – 1.5MB/s

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
  • USB 3.0: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info
  • USB 2.0: Supported on Macs and PC's meeting minimum requirements. - Click for more info

Format

UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) Compliant

  • Yes

Macintosh System Requirements

  • Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2, Mac OS X 10.0.x or later and an available USB 1.1.
  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later. Including 'Mavericks' 10.9.x and an available USB2.0/1.1, or eSATA port.
  • Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

Windows System Requirements

  • Windows 98SE or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1 port.
  • Windows 2000 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, or eSATA port.

Linux Requirements

  • Linux compatible via supported USB interface.

Power Supply*

  • Bus power via USB on most computers with factory installed USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port.
  • Optional AC Adapter* (available as a separate purchase here)
    • * AC adapter not required for most applications provided computer bus supplies appropriate power needs.

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External Case Dimensions

  • 3.8 in (W) x 5.5 in (D) x 1.1 in (H)
  • 96.52mm x 139.7mm x 27.94mm

Total Shipping Weight

  • Approximately .73 pounds (.33kg)

Operating Environment:

Temperature

  • (operating) 0°C – 70°C (32°F – 158°F)
  • (non-operating) -40°C – 85°C (-40°F – 185°F)

Relative Humidity

  • (operating) 5% – 90% RH (Non-condensing)
  • (non-operating) 5% – 95% RH (Non-condensing)

Shock

  • (non-operating) up to1500G

Vibration

  • (operating) 1.0G (5 – 300Hz)
  • (non-operating) 5.0G (5 – 500Hz)

Load/Unload Cycles

  • 600,000
Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n OWCME6UM5T20GB8 UPC#: 812437021493

Benchmarks

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Reviews

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 70 out of 73 (96%) reviewers would recommend this product
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Reviewer: DeeJayDoc Location: New York City Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Superb Drive - Incredible Value September 18, 2019 An SSD At This Incredible Price, Like Whoa! Using As The Main Drive In A CDJ System Simultaneously Feeding Two Turntables With Different Source Material, Fire!! No Errors, No Issues, No Overheating. I Co-Sign, #DeeJayDoc, New York

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Reviewer: Mergatroid Location: Boston Area Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Very Good Product July 23, 2019 This external drive is just as advertised with on time delivery. The product is performing just as I hoped on the MacBook Pro. I use it with Time Machine. It works without issue or complaints. I am very satisfied with the external drive.

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Reviewer: fjm97405 Location: Eugene, OR Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 500GB OWC SSD external October 29, 2018 I have used OWC drives for years, this current purchase continues the quality of all OWC external drives, this time an SSD, fast, cool as opposed to running hot, and very competitively priced. Backpack ready along with the laptop. Recommended!

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Reviewer: HappyMacMini Location: Vincennes, IN Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Speed and Ease Merged Wonderfully July 21, 2018 I bought an external SSD to help speed up my 2012 Mac Mini that is our family computer. The CPU and RAM are the highest I could get in this model but the 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive was the chokepoint. I initially thought about buying an internal drive and swapping it out, but then I wanted an easier way to make a clone that would be my main drive and then when I get a new Mac being able to plug in the drive and transfer the data.

So with some money saved up I bought this 500GB drive and boy what a difference! It's like having a new computer with the speed I didn't think possible on this 6 year old computer. My family especially my kids are happier now that it doesn't take a long time to load webpages or start one of their favorite games. If you are still using a regular spinning hard drive please trade up to a SSD drive and it's like flooring the gas pedal for your computer.

A shoutout also for OWC for their return policy. I initially bought a 250GB of this hard drive but realized I did not have enough free space after the initial transfer to continue using the drive. Once phone call to an OWC representative and she had a RMA return code ready and assured me that I would get a full refund on this drive. I bought the 500GB version with her no problem and in two days I had my new drive and I got an email from OWC when they received my returned drive and refunded my credit card.

With customer service and top notch quality you can't go wrong!

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Reviewer: WHOFOUR Location: Southern VT Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 On time, as described, easy to install, works great June 21, 2018 I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini 2.5" Bus-Powered Portable USB 3.0 + eSATA 6Gb/s Drive Enclosure Kit. Customer Videos:
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Reviewer: eqjones2 Location: Brooklyn Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 4/5 Recommendation is, of course, tentative May 18, 2018 It's totally unreasonable of OWC to request a review of a product such as this less than one month after it's been placed into service, so take this for what it's worth...

This Mercury Elite Pro mini replaces the same enclosure that crapped out on me with a bad USB 3 port after 3 1/2 years, and so far I'm happier with this one than I was with its predecessor: The on-off switch is "firmer", and the USB 3 port is a snugger fit for the cable; it seems like a more "substantial" product.

I use this enclosure with a short cable,which is inconvenient, because traditional cables need to be twisted in order for both ends to be pointed in the right direction to be inserted in their respective ports, but I solved the problem by simply turning the insides of the enclosure upside down, thereby equalizing the relative positions of the ports.

Also, note that OWC's website is confusing about this product, describing it as both USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Gen 1, but the latter is simply a renaming of the former, i.e. they're the exact same thing.

And finally, OWC has got an unholy affection for "one size fits all applications" cables with big chokes that are pretty damned ugly, bulkier than I'd like both at home and on the road, and not particularly faster than their choke-less OWC counterparts.

All in all, typical OWC and recommended...pending extended usage, of course.

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Reviewer: Jigbobby Location: Western Washington Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Excellent enclosure overall April 23, 2018 This is a great enclosure for one 2.5" drive. I used a 2TB OWC Mercury Extreme, and this gives me a very fast, silent drive to add to my iMac Pro. The enclosure is solidly built and pleasing to the eye. I intend to buy more as I increase my storage.

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Reviewer: Honest996 Location: Charlotte, NC Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great Product! April 19, 2018 I bought two of these enclosures and put a SSD in one and a hard drive in the other. They are both working fine! This is a great way to reuse drives from a failed computer and very cost effective.

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Reviewer: Macaholic Location: Fort Worth, Texas Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Best of Show February 16, 2018 Well made. drive installation is dead easy, and there is no fan so with the proper drive it is dead quiet. There are smaller enclosures on the market, but this one appears to be built for the long haul.

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Reviewer: 4N68R Location: So Cal Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Works fabulously January 17, 2018 I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 500GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable SSD USB 3.0 + eSATA Storage Solution. Customer Videos:
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Reviewer: Surfer Location: Hawai'i Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Fits my needs December 17, 2017 Perfect for MacBook Pro 2007.... model 10.7.5. Easy to set up....OWC gave support for my questions.

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Reviewer: WhiteSpider Location: Cross Junction, VA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Awesome Drive! November 28, 2017 When I purchased a used Mac from OWC, I had explained I wanted to swap out the fusion drive with an SSD. After some discussion and them understanding my business and what I needed the SSD for, they suggested the easier solution of adding this drive for my OS and apps, keeping the internal fusion as storage and scratch space. The setup works perfect, could not be happier. Apps launch blazing fast, drive is nice and quiet being an SSD. Love it! Thanks OWC, you rock!

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Reviewer: ScottCa Location: Denver, CO Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 The Only SSD's I Use October 4, 2017 I own three of these - they are my drives for 4K video production. Super fast. Always reliable. I will be buying more.

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Reviewer: MacGuySrq Location: Sarasota, FL Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Dependable unit November 8, 2016 I use these for myself and buy them on spec for customers. I am a Mac Specialist and use these units almost exclusively for Time Machine backups. Their dependability long term is unsurpassed. I personally have OWC enclosures that are 8-10 years old and have never had an issue.

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Reviewer: hilltop Location: massachusetts, usa Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 fast small sturdy October 27, 2016 This drive with a carrying case was perfect for audio editing for a sound engineering course. Fast, small, sturdy.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: seattle, wa Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months
Rating: 4/5 wonderful addition to my network August 4, 2016 I needed an external SSD drive to handle my work in process. I'm a videographer and need as much processing power and speed as I can get. I have an old MacPro 4,4. This drive worked beautifully from day one. It was plug and play. I trust it with my most precious work.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Kankakee, IL Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 4/5 Good looking, fast, best bang for the buck! July 13, 2016 I purchased this after getting a new Late 2015 iMac Retina. The iMac has a 1TB 7200 RPM drive and my previous Mac was a Mini that I had upgraded with an OWC SSD. I became spoiled having an SSD and really wanted to decrease boot and program load times substantially. Initially, I looked at Thunderbolt 2 enclosures, but couldn’t see enough benefit due to the increased cost. I labored over specs for days and had a few email exchanges with Rebecca @ OWC sales/support to clarify things that I was unsure about. As in my previous dealings with OWC she was professional, patient and informative.

I decided to go with a USB 3.0 enclosure as a trade off for just a little less speed for a lot less money. I ordered it on a Sunday, with Monday being a holiday. So the drive was shipped promptly on Tuesday as expected and arrived within two days. Not at all bad for free shipping!

When it arrived, I started with some simple benchmarks. I used XBench and saw results of 314-400MB/s write and read speeds. Certainly an improvement over the internal 7200 RPM Seagate which gave read/write of 162-172MB/s. The enclosure feels rock solid, is attractive and blends with the design elements of my iMac and supporting Twelve South HiRise.

So on to making a bootable clone. For this I used SuperDuper. That process was fairly simple and after 2.5 hours it was complete and I was ready for the moment of truth. After changing the startup drive designation and rebooting, program load times were reduced significantly. I don’t have hard numbers on these, but as a “for instance” when I would click on System Preferences I would get the bouncing icon for 5-30 seconds. Now it’s instantaneous. Office applications used to take several seconds and now just fly open.

After a shutdown I timed the startup sequence. It does take a little longer for the iMac to find/mount the drive but overall boot time has been reduced from 1:15 to 41 seconds. Less than half the time of previous booting.

All things considered I’m quite pleased with the performance improvements that this external SSD has brought me. I would not go so far as to say it’s a “true SSD experience”, but it is darn close. I don’t have the means to monitor the temperature of the drive, but any time that I place my hand on the enclosure it’s cool to the touch. And of course it’s completely quiet. I gave it a 4-star rating because ½ stars weren’t available. The only thing that keeps it from being a 5-star is that I really hoped for a bit more speed. Yes, I’m a very critical consumer.

The instructional videos from OWC are very good. I have relied upon them when installing an SSD in my old Mini. But the process of opening my 2015 iMac (that’s still under warranty) to swap the drive was a bit daunting.

Time will tell in regards to the stability and longevity of this arrangement for my uses. But I do have a lot of faith in the quality of OWC products. Every Mac I’ve owned has been upgraded with RAM or SSD’s from OWC. In six years I haven’t had one failure.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Iowa Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Works really good. March 29, 2016 I partitioned this in half. Half is being used for Time Line backup. Other half is used as a manual backup.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Florida, USA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 This product works and is well built March 29, 2016 I just bought my second unit and feel very good about this product. Pro" 1. It is built well, allows SSD and HDD drives to run at full speed on either interface - USB3 or FW800. 2. The drive runs cooler than my previous tiny enclosure (which did neither and delay the startup process interminably), 3. It protects the internally mounted device from vibration with a small grommet around each of the four drive mounting screws. At least for portable use, I recommend using all four supplied screws. 4. Allows external power supply or internal bus power to run the unit. 5. Has a rear mounted on/off switch. A nice thought! 6. Runs cooler than others due to it's perforated enclosure design, e.g., better airflow. I keep it my deep desk drawer full time and monitored its temperature (DriveDX) on a S.M.A.R.T. device there - the case runs just a bit warm to the touch. The returned internal drive temp is 31°C. 7. While cost is higher than most 2.5" externals, the feature set puts it in a better performing group, in my opinion. Con 1. Not a toolless design. 2. A bit more but worth it! Also if you shop elsewhere a recent price reduction puts it closer to the "cheapos".

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Florida Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Reliable mini external drive January 12, 2016 Have purchased both standard size and the mini Mercury Elite Pro drives in the past which have performed well ; needed another mini drive unit w/ SATA connectivity dedicated to run an older Windows XP system using emulation software (VMware Fusion) on my 2012 MacPro - so far operation reliability and performance meets all my needs & expectations.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: NZ Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great design and easy to use September 20, 2015 Gret design, easy to install and use, all the interfaces I needed and great for maintaining an off site backup to my system

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Fresno, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Strong Case August 29, 2015 I wanted a strong case for my just replaced 240GB SSD drive and so I selected this one in USB3 and eSATA. Now that it's in my hands I can see that it is strong, sturdy and should last and work for years to come.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Baton Rouge, LA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Excellent SSD Drive June 20, 2015 Very fast and has been completely reliable.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Works great February 27, 2015 Connected to my Mac Pro (Mid 2010) to add-on eSATA PCI Card (don't remember the brand). Fast on the eSATA connection, and reliable so far. I use it for sample playback on music applications, which requires very fast disc/access time, and is doing great. The enclosure is sturdy. It is expensive, compared to similar items, but the quality is as good as it gets.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Charlotte, NC Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Nice Enclosure! December 24, 2014 I bought this to maintain full USB 3 compatibility with the new Mac Pros at my work, and also added an eSATA card to my own Mac Pro tower for similar speeds at home. This is quite an improvement over USB 2 and Firewire 400, and really speeds up file copying.

It seems well-built, compared to other enclosures I've owned that just hold the drive in place with a couple screws, without attaching to the control board. In one enclosure I used to own, the hard drive would come loose from the board without warning (and according to Murphy, it would do so at the darnedest times, too. Pulling out a small screwdriver and reassembling my hard drive in the middle of a presentation made quite an impression.) This enclosure has screws positioned to keep the drive attached to the board, and the board attached to the enclosure, just like it should. Glad I bought it!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable USB3.0 + eSATA Storage Solution. May 7, 2014 This is my fastest enclosure , with a WD 750 GB black drive and 09 mac pro with OWC 6G ethernet card , works great . Boots too . I might get another to try the OWC 240 SSD . Doesn't sleep or disconnect or anything weird . Very good unit

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Pacific Northwest Age: Under 18 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 5-6 months
Rating: 5/5 A great solution for installing Linux on a Laptop June 19, 2013 I have a PC laptop (workstation replacement). I was looking for a way to install another operating system (Linux) without disturbing the laptop's existing disk drives or boot loader. I was able to plug the Mercury Lite drive into the eSata port and also into the USB port for power and install Linux without difficulty. Everything worked out of the box. The installation went smoothly without disturbing the existing disk drives on the laptop. The Mercury Lute drive is very fast, quiet, easy to pack and light-weight. It does not get warm to the touch so I do not need to take precautions as to where it is placed.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Kuwait Age: 25-34 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 4/5 This drive is excellent! January 28, 2013 I have ordered this drive just because it was hard to find drives with eSata support here in Kuwait market. And I didn't had USB 3.0 port on my notebook. This drive was fantastic. It gives me a really good speed with eSata connection in data back-up and retrieval. Highly recommended for those who does not have USB 3.0 port and have eSata port.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 1.0TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable 5400RPM USB 3.0 + eSATA Storage Solution.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: zürich Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Noob Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 4/5 very nice December 22, 2012 with additional firewire it would be perfect, but I guess that would be difficult to have?

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 750GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable 7200RPM USB 3.0 + eSATA Storage Solution.

Response from MacSales.com, Marketing December 24, 2012 Not difficult at all - there is a version with firewire available as well: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
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