Mercury Elite Pro
External Data Storage for Work and Play
With up to 16TB capacity, Mercury Elite Pro offers the perfect blend of performance, reliability, and value in a desktop-sized external drive for all professional and personal data storage.
With up to 16TB capacity, Mercury Elite Pro offers the perfect blend of performance, reliability, and value in a desktop-sized external drive for all professional and personal data storage.
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 16TB capacity. It can be used for a variety of personal and business needs including:
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”.
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
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!
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.
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:
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.
Like all OWC drives, Mercury Elite Pro with is built to the highest standards of reliability and performance. Because our goal is always 100% reliability, it’s rigorously quality tested, and backed by our 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty and award-winning customer support.
Warranty varies based on model purchased. See the Tech Specs tab for full details.
1. Sequential read/write (max) performance numbers are based on testing 16TB Seagate HDD with AJA System Test (4KFull resolution, 16GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, file per frame test). 2. If movie playback from an external hard drive and movie format is supported by your Smart TV. 3. 10-megapixel camera with 5MB image sizes. 4. 4-minute average 4MB MP3 song. 5. 4-minute average uncompressed Apple Lossless (ALAC) songs. 6. 1080p HD videos with 5GB average file size. 7. 24FPS 8MB per frame setting. 8. 60FPS 24GB/hr. 9. 250KB average file size. 10. 40GB average game size.
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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.
1. Sequential read/write (max) performance numbers are based on testing 16TB Seagate HDD with AJA System Test (4KFull resolution, 16GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, file per frame test).