💾 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini Portable RAID Solution - 4.0TB, USB C, 5400RPM HD Review

Bought for a co-worker who says he loves it. After reading the OWC website, he wasn't sure if the product would come with an external power supply. When ordered with installed hard drives, a power supply unit was included with the OWC.

Bought this drive to store Time Machine backups from my new Mac Mini. Easily configure RAID0 (factory default), which offers a total storage capacity of 4TB by writing to each of the two 2TB drives in the enclosure, or configure RAID1, which offers additional security by writing to only one drive and data on it a second drive to be mirrored. This reduces the total capacity to 2TB, but halves the chance of data loss due to hardware failure. The reason for the 3-star rating is because of one…

I've had good luck with other OWC external hard drives, but this model is very noisy. Loud enough to be distracting when working in relatively quiet environments. OWC Spares had the exact same issue and while they are happy to keep sending replacements, there is a very limited window to actually return the item for a refund. So I would think twice before ordering the Dual Mini. If you decide to give it a try, I suggest you plug it in right away and decide its usefulness in your work…