Overview
OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini
The universally USB compatible bus-powered enclosure for saving, accessing, and backing up.
Small Footprint. Big Possibilities
The Mercury Elite Pro mini was introduced over a decade ago to emulate its award-winning desktop-sized Mercury Elite Pro “sibling.” It has earned a stellar reputation for offering superior portable, bus-powered storage performance. This pint-sized powerhouse’s latest evolution gives creative pros, small office/home office users, students, and families the speed and universal connectivity of a USB-C 10Gb/s interface. Go ahead, connect the Mercury Elite Pro mini to a USB port on any past, present, or future Mac or PC, or iPadOS, Android, or Chrome OS device. The included USB-C cable with tethered USB-A adapter lets you plug into nearly anything, anywhere.
Cuts the Cord
Complementing the convenience of not having to worry about connection ports, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is bus-powered so you can free yourself from power adapter limitations. Cut the cord and take high-performance storage where you need it... from the desktop to a mountaintop.
Ready for Everything
The Mercury Elite Pro mini is ready for your demanding A/V, digital photography, professional music, graphics, and general data backup needs. Its rugged, aircraft-grade fan-less aluminium enclosure offers near silent operation. Use it for a variety of business and personal needs…
- 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
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 1TB of your OWC drive capacity, you can store up to any of the following…
- 250,000 photos
- 250,000 standard quality songs
- 38,000 high quality songs
- 200 high-definition movies
- 41.6 hours of GoPro 4K footage
- 4.3 million MS Office documents
- 24+ PS4/Xbox games
Certified for Demanding Use
OWC understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That’s why the Mercury Elite Pro mini goes through a multi-step performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures it arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.
OWC, Trusted by Pros & Enthusiasts the World Over
OWC build their hardware to the highest standards of reliability and performance. Because 100% reliability is always the goal, they rigorously quality test and back their hardware with an outstanding warranty and award-winning customer support.
Your Digital Life…Protected for FREE
Backing up and protecting your data is critically important. But all too often it’s a task that falls to the bottom of the “to do” list, and you don’t realise it until it is too late. That’s why OWC has partnered with Acronis to give you 1 full year of the #1 personal backup and antivirus software to integrate into your workflow.
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office safeguards you from today’s data threats—from accidents to failures to attacks. With easy, intuitive backup and Ai-enhanced antimalware technology, your digital life is protected—photos, files, applications, systems, and the devices they are on.
- Universally compatible: plug and play with past, present, and future Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, and Android tablets
- Life ready: save, access, backup, and edit work and personal files with up to 542MB/s real-world performance
- Easy backups: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
- Game on: ideal for game storage with PlayStation and Xbox consoles
- Entertainment centre: watch videos, listen to music, and view pictures on your Smart TV
- Portable: bus-powered and rugged to go from desktop to mountain top
- Bootable: startup and launch apps in just seconds
- Quiet: heat-dissipating, aircraft-grade aluminium housing and fan-less venting provide cool, nearly silent operation
- Deployment ready: pre-configured solutions undergo a rigorous multi-step performance certification
- Connected: connect universally to any USB or Thunderbolt computer or device with the included USB-C cable with tethered USB-A adapter
- Protects your data: includes Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, the only personal data management solution available that combines backup and ransomware protection
Video
In this video we show you how to install a 2.5-inch drive in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini USB-C (2021 rev.) enclosure.
Specifications
- Total Capacity
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- 1.0TB
- Total Solution Cache Size
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- 128 MB
- Standard Mechanism
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- 1 x 1TB Toshiba MQ04AB Series 5,400RPM hard disk drive with 128 MB cache
- Chipset
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- ASM235CM
- Plug and Play
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- Yes
- Mac OS Compatibility
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- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- macOS 10.12 Sierra
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 11.x Big Sur
- macOS 11.1 Big Sur
- macOS 12.x Monterey
- Linux OS Compatibility
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- Yes
- Mobile OS Compatibility
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- iPadOS 13
- iPadOS 14
- Android 10.x
- Android 11.x
- Android 12.x
- Other OS Compatibility
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- Chrome OS
- Driver Required
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- No
- Power Supply
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- Bus-powered
- Drive Bays
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- 1 bay supporting: 2.5-inch SATA drives
- Device Ports
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- 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-C port up to 10Gb/s (1250MB/s) - USB 2.0 / 3.0 backwards compatible
- Dimensions
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- H: 24 x L: 124 x W: 78 mm
- Weight
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- 130 g
What's in the box?
- 1 x OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini
- 1 x USB Type-C to Type-C cable with Tethered Type-C to Type-A Adapter
- 1 x Quick Start Guide
Warranty
- 3 Year Limited Warranty
Part Number
- OWCMEPMTC5T10