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2021-11-24 Enclosure for 3.5-inch SATA Drives: OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini USB-C

2021-02-26 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, Aggregate Bandwidth with Multiple Drives

2021-02-23 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, RAID-0 Striping Performance

2021-02-22 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure

2021-02-09 Up to a Whopping 36TB Storage in the *NEW* OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure

2021-02-01 TESTED: Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 hard drive in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 enclosure

2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure

2021-01-12 Backing-up All Your Stuff: an 18TB Hard Drive installed in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure

2020-05-28 Reviewed: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock Storage Solution with USB-A Ports, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, Thunderbolt 3

2019-02-07 Banishing the Drone of Spinning Hard Drives: and Fans: Moving to 8TB OWC Thunderblade SSD

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2020-05-28 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Great Choice for Many Photographers, up to 32TB in Compact Portable Form Factor

2019-03-10 Reader Comments: Just How Does the 2018 Mac mini Pan Out When Deploying for Professional Use?

2018-02-25 Get 4TB of SSD for about $776, Install in $90 Dual-Bay External — Super Convenient Capacious Storage

2011-10-09 Backup for Photographers

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock

Two-Drive Hardware RAID plus USB ports, SD slot, video, gigabit.

1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Overview
2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Speed Across Capacity
3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Speed vs Transfer Size
4. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: SD Card Slot Speed

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C

2-bay storage solution with hardware RAID options.

1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Overview
2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 2 X 18TB Hard Drives
3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 36TB RAID-0
4. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Aggregate Read/Write Bandwidth

Big Fast Hard Drives

Big Fast Hard Drives, 2021 and Later.

1. Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 Hard Drive

OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8

Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.

1. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Designing an OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8 Configuration for Still Photography or Videography

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Thunderbolt / USB3

Dual-drive Thunderbolt + USB3 user-selectable RAID..

1. Overview of OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
2. Formatting and Partitioning
3. Ergonomics of OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual
4. Performance as RAID-1 Mirror
5. Striping 4 Drives In Two OWC Mercury Elite Pro Duals
6. RAID 1+0: Striping a Pair of Mirrors for Fault Tolerance

Solid State Drives, Various

SSDs and thumb drives..

1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini USB-C SSD
2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini USB3 / eSATA SSD
3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini USB-C

Drives and Expansion and Various

Reviews of various hardware and software..

1. CalDigit PCIe 2-Port USB3 Card for Mac Pro
2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro (2011 model)
3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro (2012 w/USB3 model)
4. FirmTek U3 USB3 Swappable 2.5-inch Drive Enclosure
5. OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini (2011 model)

Blog posts

2021

2021-11-24 Enclosure for 3.5-inch SATA Drives: OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini USB-C

2021-02-26 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, Aggregate Bandwidth with Multiple Drives

2021-02-23 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, RAID-0 Striping Performance

2021-02-22 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure

2021-02-09 Up to a Whopping 36TB Storage in the *NEW* OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure

2021-02-01 TESTED: Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 hard drive in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 enclosure

2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure

2021-01-12 Backing-up All Your Stuff: an 18TB Hard Drive installed in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure

2020

2020-05-28 Reviewed: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock Storage Solution with USB-A Ports, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, Thunderbolt 3

2019

2019-02-07 Banishing the Drone of Spinning Hard Drives: and Fans: Moving to 8TB OWC Thunderblade SSD

2019-02-02 Tested: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini 1TB SSD USB-C

2019-01-06 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Family of Storage Solutions Delivers USB-C Performance in a Portable Package

2018

2018-02-25 Get 4TB of SSD for about $776, Install in $90 Dual-Bay External — Super Convenient Capacious Storage

2017

2017-05-05 Reviewed: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini USB-C

2016

2016-12-06 OWC Introduces Redesigned Mercury Elite Pro Dual with Thunderbolt 2 Technology + SALE on “Gen 1” Version

2016-11-07 OWC Announces Updated Mercury Elite Pro Dual

2015

2015-06-06 Storage and RAID Deals

2014

2014-09-05 FOR SALE: 6 OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Quad-Interface Enclosures (for 3.5-inch Hard Drives)

2014-01-01 Soft RAID 5 to Offer RAID-5 and RAID 1+0 Fault Tolerance via Software for Any Multi-Drive Setup

2013

2013-12-30 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual on Thunderbolt: Striping and Striped Pair of Mirrors

2013-12-26 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Thunderbolt or USB3 Dual Drive Enclosure

2013-12-26 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual as Fault-Tolerant RAID-1 Mirror over Thunderbolt

2013-12-23 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Thunderbolt vs USB for Dual-Drive RAID

2013-07-01 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini with 6G SSD on USB3 — Speed Increase

2012

2012-12-10 My Favorite Mac Hardware

2012-11-01 Lively Logic for Graphing

2012-10-27 OWC Mercury Elite Pro 4TB External with USB 3, Firewire, eSATA Ports

2011

2011-10-09 Backup and Backup Drives for Photographers

2011-07-23 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini Bus-Powered Portable External Drive (Hard Drive or SSD)

2011-07-23 OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Drive