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"The specific unit reviewed is a 1TB drive and it's a great addition to anyone's hardware setup, particularly if you're a road warrior."
— Dave Taylor, Ask Dave Taylor
"OWC has created an upgradable enclosure solution with their Mercury On-The-Go Pro that is Mac and PC compatible and it can handle drives with terabytes of storage or a fast SSD."
— Chris Rauschnot, MacTrast
"This versatility and size make it a great accessory for laptop or desktop computers."
— Tom Piper, AppleJAC
"Performance is generally very good... clocks in at well over 40MB/s... "
— Christopher Phin, Mac Format
"Performed very well... topped the chart among pocket-size portable external hard drives"
— CNET, Rating: Very good
"The Best of Both Worlds: Performance and Portability."
— The Mac Observer
"Small, Lightweight, Very Rugged and Priced Right"
— Scott Kelby, Photoshop User
"A Little Powerhouse In Your Pocket"
— Ko Maruyama, Creative Mac
"Highly Recommended."
"Nice Package... Solid Components in a Great Looking Acrylic Case... I Carry This With Me All the Time"
— PC Magazine
"Among The Fastest External Drives We've Tested" — Macworld
"The Powerhouse of Storage Systems" — Linsey Knerl, Tom's Guide
"That drive is great... it's my favorite enclosure... it looks AWESOME!!"
— Leo LaPorte, Andy Ihnatko, MacBreak
"Very Fast - Faster Than My Fastest Hard Disk." — Marshall Clow, MacNN
"An Ideal Storage Upgrade Situation."
— John Guilfoil, BlastMagazine.com
"Blazing Transfer Speeds"
— Roberto Baldwin, MacLife
"Plenty of Oomph"
— Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News
"I Am Very Satisfied With this Enclosure...I Like the See-Through Case...The Ports Are Laid Out Nicely."
— Bryan Sherman, The Gadgeteer 
"This Enclosure Has Never Failed Me" — Terry White, Terry White's Tech Blog
"MyMac recommends all OWC On-The-Go external bus-powered drives… conversation pieces and workhorses for eleven years. That's an impressive lifespan for an external hard drive." — John Nemerovski, MyMac.com - On-The-Go Pro 240GB SSD Triple Interface & On-The-Go Pro 500GB SSD Triple Interface
"...fast ...speed cuts down working time and waiting time. ...it's hard to find any fault..." — Marshall Rosenthal, GadgetReview
"...converting my old internal drive as an external one with the Mercury On-The-Go-Pro was a snap"
— Michael Grothaus, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
"... performance of the drive is among the best in its class ... this latest product among a line of consistently quality products from Other World Computing, receives a solid five stars."
— Randy Yagi, Examiner.com
"This is 1.5TB, which is huge, it can have full length feature films on it."
— Amy Scalia, "Queen of Chic", Fox 28 News
