OWC Mercury Elite Pro

Essential External Storage for Everyone

Pro-grade performance: up to 283MB/s real-world speed¹
Spacious: up to 20TB capacity for music, videos, photos, business files, and games
Easy backups: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
Quiet: heat-dissipating brushed aluminum chassis and fanless venting provide cool, nearly silent operation
Rugged: built-in shock isolation protects drive
Compatible: use with Mac, Windows, and Linux machines; PS4 and Xbox consoles; and Smart TVs
Connect: includes high-quality double-shielded USB Type A-B connecting cable
Deployment ready: preconfigured solutions undergo rigorous multi-step performance certification

An Essential External Solution for Everyone

The Mercury Elite Pro began OWC’s rich, storied history of storage solution innovations nearly 20 years ago. It has lasted the test of time by continuing to offer an incomparable blend of performance, quality, and value in a single-drive storage solution.

It’s an essential desktop external drive for creative pros, small office/home office users, and families with ever-growing storage capacity needs. Photos, music, and videos are a part of everyday digital life. Add in presentations, reports, record-keeping, and correspondence, and the result is a staggering amount of data that needs to be stored in one accessible location.

The Mercury Elite Pro is up to the task with its rugged, solid aluminum enclosure holding a high performance 3.5-inch 7200RPM hard drive with up to 20TB capacity. It can be used for a variety of personal and business needs including:

Pro-level video editing projects
Time Machine and File History backups of important business data and irreplaceable personal photos
Consolidating files from multiple smaller drives to a single location for faster, more convenient access
Migrating data from an existing machine to a new computer
Expanding game storage of console gaming systems
Freeing up space on a computer's internal drive to improve performance

Purposefully Designed

Offering an ideal blend of form and function, the Mercury Elite Pro’s fanless brushed aluminum chassis provides maximum heat dissipation to run quietly cool while the shock isolation design keeps the drive — and your data — safe and protected. It fits discreetly on any desktop with the included vertical orientation stand or place it horizontally with the included non-skid rubber feet and even stack multiple units to create a capacity “tower of power”.

Ready for Play

The Mercury Elite Pro isn’t just all work and no play. Besides saving and backing up computer data or functioning as a workhorse drive on set or in the edit suite, it can be used to watch videos, listen to music, and view pictures through your gaming console or directly attached to your Smart TV.²

Gain Critical Gaming Space

With their stunning realism, modern games have grown to an average of 40GB per game. That means PS4 and Xbox One’s standard 500GB internal drive will only hold 12 “regular” games. How do you play more games — including 4K games that are up to 100GB in size — without uninstalling other games? Easy … for every 1.0TB of Mercury Elite Pro capacity you add as external storage to your console, you’ll gain space to store up to an additional 24 average-sized games. Besides eliminating the limitations of your internal capacity, you’ll gain the ability to offload the games you play most regularly and potentially load and save them faster!

Certified for Demanding Use

We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to all tech users. That’s why every Mercury Elite Pro pre-configured solution undergoes a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures it arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.

Store from Minutes to Millions

All the features and “technospeak” of an external drive don’t mean a thing if you don’t know how much of a particular file type it can hold. For every 1.0TB of Mercury Elite Pro hard drive capacity, you can store up to:

200,000 photos,³
250,000 standard quality songs,⁴
38,000 high quality songs,⁵
200 high definition movies,⁶
85 minutes of 4K RAW footage,⁷
41.6 hours of GoPro 4K footage,⁸
4.3 million MS Office documents⁹, or 24 PS4/Xbox games,¹⁰

Note: Storage examples for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may be different based on variety of factors including specific file size and format, settings, features, software and other factors.

Sequential read/write (max) performance numbers are based on testing 16TB Seagate HDD with AJA System Test (4K Full resolution, 16GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, file per frame test).
If movie playback from an external hard drive and movie format is supported by your Smart TV.
10-megapixel camera with 5MB image sizes.
4-minute average 4MB MP3 song.
4-minute average uncompressed Apple Lossless (ALAC) songs.
1080p HD videos with 5GB average file size.
24FPS 8MB per frame setting.
60FPS 24GB/hr.
250KB average file size.
40GB average game size.