OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini

240GB SSD
Bus-Powered, Multi-Interface Storage Solution

Mac / PC / USB 3.0 & 2.0 / FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 Backwards Compatible)

High-performance and Plug and Play data storage/backup reliability with a fanless, bus-powered design

Benefits of Elite Mini w/SSD This OWC Mercury Electra 3G SSD based Plug and Play external solution provides

Exceptional External Drive Performance – up to over 280MB/s
Ultra-Quiet & Ultra Low-Power
No moving parts, exceptional shock tolerance

With your choice of a 2.5" Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive OR Solid State Drive (SSD), the latest chipset, and USB 3.0/FireWire 800 interfaces, the Mercury Elite Pro mini Portable Storage Solution delivers up to 500MB/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; FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 Backwards Compatible)
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
Data transfer speeds up to 500MB/s (via USB 3.0; 100MB/s via FireWire 800)
Drive speeds up to those of a Solid State Drive
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 1053E and Oxford 944SE high-performance chipset
3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini

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Includes the Powerful SpeedTools Utility Suite for Mac

The comprehensive Mac utility used by professionals for accurate Mac diagnosis and maintenance. Click the SOFTWARE tab below to learn more »

Includes

OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Bus-Powered, Multi-Interface, USB 3.0 & 2.0, FireWire 800 Storage Solution with SSD
High-quality FireWire 800 connecting cable
High-quality USB 3.0 connecting cable
Pre-installed Backup and Utility software

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6, OS X 10.3.9 or later only)
ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
NovaStor NovaBACKUP® for Windows 2000 or later

Over 1.5GB of Freeware/Shareware/Public domain software pre-installed
Mercury Elite Pro mini Assembly Manual & User Guide (1.1 MB)
OWC 3-year Solution Warranty with 48-hour Turnaround Time

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Product Specifications:

Chipset

ASMedia 1053E and Oxford 944SE High-Performance Chipset

Standard Mechanism

240GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller

SandForce 2181 Series Processor with 7% Over Provisioning

NAND

Tier 1 Asynchronous MLC NAND Flash Memory

Form Factor

Standard 9.5mm 2.5"

Interface

SATA 3Gb/s

Capacity¹

240GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components – 256GB
16GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity²

223GiB

RAID Support

Qualified for single drive and multiple drive production workstation RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN usage.

SMART Attributes

Standard⁵

Native Command Queuing

up to 32 commands

Manufacturer Model Number

OWCSSDEX3G240

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

7mm (.276″)

Width (max)

70.06mm (2.758″)

Length (max)

100.12mm (3.941″)

Weight

77 grams +/- 2 grams
0.170 lbs +/- 2.71 oz

Reliability³

Data Reliability

ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

TRIM Support

OS Dependent

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

Less than 1 sector per 10¹⁶ bits read

Warranty

3 Year OWC SSD Limited Warranty
(Standard return policy applies.)

Performance

Sustained
Reads (up to)

285MB/s

Sustained
Writes (up to)

275MB/s

Read Incompressible
Data Rate (up to)

208MB/s

Write Incompressible
Data Rate (up to)

235MB/s

Random 4K Read⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Read Latency

less than 0.1ms

Write Latency

less than 0.1ms

Environmental (Operating)

Temperature (°F)

32°F to 158°F

Temperature (°C)

0°C to 70°C

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Temperature (°F)

-67°F to 302°F

Temperature (°C)

-55°C to 150°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

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.
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.
Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability.
Specifications provided by SandForce.
Temperature reporting is currently an unsupported feature because due to the operating characteristics of SSDs, it is highly unlikely one would ever exceed an OWC Mercury SSD's stated operating temperature ceiling of 158F/70C. However, we are looking into supporting this feature in the future via a firmware update. Firmware updates can be found here: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/OWC/SSD.

240GB* OWC Mercury Electra 3G Solid-State 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)

Port Configuration

FireWire 800 – 2 port
USB 3.0 – (1) Micro-B port

Max Data Transfer Rate

FireWire 800 – 100 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?

FireWire 800: 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

Format

Included Drive Guide Software will format drive for either OS X, or Windows Using the OWC Drive Guide

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 FireWire 800/400 port.
Time Machine® Compatible: Mac OS X 10.5 (version introduced) and later.

Windows System Requirements

Windows 98SE or later and an available FireWire 400 or USB 2.0/1.1 port.
Windows 2000 or later and an available USB 2.0/1.1, or FireWire 800/400 port.

Linux Requirements

Linux compatible via supported USB interface.

Power Supply*

Bus Power via FireWire 800 supported on all models equipped with an available FireWire 800 port either factory stock or via add on FireWire 800 PCI Card.
Bus Power via FireWire 400 on all models made in 2001 or later via Factory ports or any model with add on FireWire 400 PCI Card.
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)

Related Items

72" USB 3.0 A to Micro-B cable from $13.79

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)

Software Included

Intech® Hard Disk SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6 – X only)
ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
NovaStor NovaBACKUP® for Windows 2000 or later
Over 1.5GB of Freeware, Shareware, Public domain software installed

User Guide

Mercury Elite Pro mini Assembly Manual & User Guide (1.1 MB)

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

Warranty

3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use – but should the need occur – we're proud to provide a superior level of support and service coverage to our customers. OWC and NewerTech storage solutions come fully backed by an Industry-leading 48-hour turnaround time for complete peace of mind ownership confidence.

View more information about the 3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of the 3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n MEF3MSSD240 UPC#: 812437021691

Software

Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for OS X v10.2.8 or later

Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you.
A $59.00 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase softwareseparately from solution

NovaStor NovaBACKUP® Solution for Windows®

NovaBACKUP has been helping millions of users recover from data loss and disasters for over 18 years. Feature rich, NovaBACKUP provides a powerful backup solution. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step backup and restore wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use. Requires Windows 2000 or later.
A $49.95 Value! View detailed software info

Intech SpeedTools Utilities

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™

Intech SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.
An $89.95 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution

Reviews

Benchmarks

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Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 51 out of 52 (98%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Reviewer: singingheart Location: Prescott, AZ Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works great for time machine September 26, 2016 Nice and quiet. Would not know it was there. Works well on my usb 2. port. Did take a few hours to load it up for the first back up, but now it is a no brainer. So far so good.

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Reviewer: Turbolegs Location: Phoenix, AZ Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works as advertised September 23, 2016 Easy set up ... fast copy speed ... quiet ... compact size ... all the cables included ... everything I wanted and shipped out quickly direct to my house.

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Reviewer: JimWY Location: Wyoming Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works great as external startup on Mac September 15, 2016 I used the directions from the MacWorld article (print version) and had an easy time setting the drive up. Definitely a boost for my 2011 iMac. See the online article at http://www.macworld.com/article/2907125/use-an-external-ssd-to-make-an-old-mac-feel-new-without-cracking-it-open.html

Enjoy!

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Reviewer: DocFather Location: Bangkok, Thailand Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great Product. Have had no problems with it. September 3, 2016 As with ALL the OWC products I have had this 3TB Mini works flawlessly. I am very pleased to add it to my external HD chain.

OWC keep up the SUPURB work; your products are Great.

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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: Berkeley, CA. Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Pleased customer May 9, 2016 Product was delivered in a very timely fashion. It takes up hardly any space at all, yet stores an amazing amount of data. I appreciated the fact that my customer number, address, etc., were still on file, which made ordering a breeze.

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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: jjkeys Location: Nashville, TN Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 A winner in every way December 19, 2015 This is my third Mercury Elite external drive and I am totally satisfied with these drives. The build quality is excellent, and they work flawlessly with all my audio recording software. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this drive to anyone needing a high-speed drive for streaming audio and recording audio.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Dallas, Texas Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works great once I figured out how to hook it up November 3, 2015 At first, the drive would power on, but not show up anywhere on my computer. I looked on OWC's website and couldn't find anything helpful. Finally, after trying everything I could think of to get my MacBook Pro to acknowledge the drive, a friend suggested I plug both the USB and Firewire into my laptop. This did the trick! I just wish I had known this first before I spent countless hours troubleshooting and getting very frustrated. That being said, now that the drive works, it does what it is supposed to do and I have no problems out of it.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Toronto, ON Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Love it! very fast and stable! November 2, 2015 I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Silicon Valley, CA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Small and powerful October 8, 2015 I am using this external HD to run my iMac. It runs faster than the original HD. Highly recommend.

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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: Cajun Country Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great backup option at a reasonable price September 14, 2015 Keeps my 1T of SSD storage safely backed up effortlessly!

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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: Goldsboro, NC Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great Product August 28, 2015 Performs as advertised, time will speak to it's quality/durability. My only drawback was the packaged software and setup instructions, both are flawed, however, a call to the techs was the solution, by the way, they direct you to apple software for formatting and setup which works seamlessly...the techs are very helpful. I think the price/product ratio is very good also, as I've purchased a number of upgrade items and I always go to OWC.

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Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 New owc customer August 26, 2015 My first experience with OWC....first impressions...Great service, quick shipping, easy to get through to tech support.. So far so good, using it as external boot drive and storage for sample libraries on Mac mini.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 I had it up and running within five minutes of opening the package. July 15, 2015 A great addition that will make doing photos on my 2008 iMac faster. Love the ease of operation. It was up and running within five minutes of opening the box. It wasn't my first purchase from OWC and won't be the last>

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

Rating: 5/5 Great speed July 11, 2015 SSD on a old computer is the best investment ever. Easy to change and makes the computer feel brand new.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Cupertino, CA Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Great for off site backup. June 20, 2015 I already have Elite Pros for backing up our systems. The Mini is handy for a weekly backup that I keep in my fire safe. If my system (and its backup disk) are lost to fire or theft, I can use the Mini to boot up on another system. Belt AND suspenders. This is the second Mini I have purchased from OWC. Now, both my wife's system and my system have this additional recovery ability. All my disks from OWC have performed flawlessly over the years -- some way beyond their warrenty period.

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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 Location: Pacifica, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 SSD drive brings new life to a 2008 iMac June 18, 2015 After upgrading the internal hard drive on my 2008 iMac to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, it performed poorly. Following the advice found on a Mac website, I installed Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite on this new Mercury Elite Pro mini portable SSD, connected it to the FireWire 800 port on my iMac, booted from it and it's been working superbly.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Victoria, BC Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 3/5 Not fast enough to use a permanent external boot drive May 25, 2015 Bought this hoping to speed up my 2007 iMac extreme without doing surgery on the iMac itself. I had just seen a major online magazine recommend this specific drive for this use.

Although this drive is reasonably quick, it definitely didn't give me the "SSD experience" that I was looking for when I used it as a boot drive via FW800.

I ended ordering a internal Crucial SSD elsewhere and installed it inside the iMac itself. *That* gave me the SSD experience that I was hoping for.

This external drive is now just an expensive unused backup.

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Response from MacSales.com, Technical Support May 27, 2015 As shown in the benchmarks tab, the SSD installed in this external enclosure does fully saturate the 80MB/s maximum bandwidth of FireWire 800. You would need to be connecting via USB 3.0 in order to reach speeds that will give you that "SSD experience" that you were looking for.

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