Review on 💾 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini: High-Speed Bus-Powered RAID Storage Enclosure with USB 3.1 Gen 2 by Jerry Eintertainment

Write speed is 10% slower than advertised (508 actual vs 573 spec). 6% faster read than advertised (730 vs. 689). However, in a different 4-drive enclosure, I get almost twice the speed with the same brand of SSDs. So that could be the limit of my SSD. My 4-drive case is also from OWC and probably uses the same chipset as this 2-drive case, so it's not convincing. This uses the USB-C ports on a 2018 Mac Pro with 2x 1TB SSD in RAID 0 mode. We all know the OWC support is pretty much the worst, but the products are mostly solid with very few bugs. I wish the case was tool-less, but I think it's intended for rotating drives that need better stabilization. A tool-less design should be a much more precise product than the perforated sheet metal that makes up this guy. The only non-tool equivalents I can find are the ones with a single disk. I would pay twice as much for a tool-less design as I could easily change rims. With this design I have to buy more cases. There are many options when you need external power. If you need bus power, here or akitio. Either this product is a white label aquitio or OWC and aquitio are actually the same company. So there is no other choice. This often results in a low quality product, but this one is very good. I will buy more of these.