Mercury Elite Pro Dock – Thunderbolt 3 Dock and Dual-Drive RAID Solution

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Your Multitool for Digital Workflows
With dual drive bays, and seven connectivity ports including an SD 4.0 card reader, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock is the do-it-all tool that will organize your digital life. You’ll have plenty of room to duplicate footage, create and manage archives, or render and process effects. Connect your favorite peripherals via USB ports. Ingest the day’s shoot or drone footage with the frontside reader.

Hardware RAID: Speed, Reliability, Flexibility
The Mercury Elite Pro Dock utilizes hardware RAID to unleash the full potential of two 3.5″ 7200RPM hard drives. Preconfigured in high-speed RAID 0 mode to deliver maximum sustained throughput from its drives, the Mercury Elite Pro Dock offers real-world speeds up to 773MB/s to handle HD video workflows. If you desire the extra security of mirrored data, you can configure the Mercury Elite Pro Dock in RAID 1 mode. Need more drive flexibility? Set up a span to combine the capacity of the two drives into one huge volume or use the drives as independent volumes.Future Project ReadyYou can customize the Mercury Elite Pro Dock to quickly adapt to project changes and help you stay ahead of deadlines. Install your choice of 2.5” or 3.5” HDDs or SSD and even combine the speed of an SSD with the cost-effective storage capacity of an HDD. With built-in hardware RAID, you have four drive set-up choices:

  • Non-RAID to keep the drives as independent volumes
  • RAID 1 (mirror) for backup reliability
  • RAID 0 (stripe) for optimal performance and maximum speed or use
  • Span to combine the drive capacities into one huge volume for extra-large storage capacities

Highlights:

  • Performance storage: up to 773MB/s
  • Fast connectivity: (2) Thunderbolt 3 ports (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backward compatible)
  • Speed and storage: hardware RAID controller (RAID 0,1, Span or JBOD/Independent)
  • Easy camera uploads: frontside SD 4.0 (UHS-II) card reader
  • A hub of options: (2) USB 3.1 Gen 1 (Type-A) ports
  • Full steam ahead: 1Gb Ethernet port
  • See work in progress: DisplayPort 1.2 for adding up to a 4K monitor
  • Custom configurations: (2) bays for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA drives
  • 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty

Dual-Drive RAID Solution/Dock – 4TB – 8TB – 12TB – 16TB – 24TB – 28TB- 32TB – 36TB

Product Specs

Specifications

  • Mechanisms Supported
  • SATA interface
  • Display Support
  • Up to one 5K display @ 60Hz,
  • or one 4K display @ 60Hz,
  • or one 4K display @ 30Hz,
  • or two 4K displays @ 60Hz,
  • or one 4K display @ 60Hz and one 4K display @ 30Hz
  • Display Support by Port
  • Thunderbolt 3: Up to 5K @ 60Hz via a native Thunderbolt 3 display or 4K @ 60Hz via a Thunderbolt display or a USB-C display adapter
  • Bootable
  • Yes
  • Hot Plug Support
  • Yes
  • Chipset
  • Thunderbolt (2): Intel JHL6540
  • Media Reader: Genesis Logic GL-3227
  • USB (2): Fresco Logic FL1100EX
  • Ethernet (1): Intel i210
  • SATA Controller: ASMedia AS
  • RoHS Compliant
  • Yes
  • Certifications
  • CE
  • FCC
  • VCCI
  • BSMI
  • RCM
  • Thunderbolt™technology
  • Data Rate
  • Up To 40 Gb/s
  • Data Transfer Rate (Maximum)
  • Thunderbolt 3 : 40 Gb/s (or 5000 MB/s)
  • Gigabit Ethernet : 1.0 Gb/s
  • USB 3.2 Gen 1 : 5 Gb/s (or 625 MB/s)
  • Reach Certification
  • Yes
  • Ethernet Speeds (RJ-45)
  • 1Gb/s “Gigabit” (1000BASE-T)

RAID

  • RAID Capable
  • Yes
  • RAID Levels Supported
  • SPAN
  • RAID 0
  • RAID 1
  • JBOD
  • RAID Features
  • Hardware RAID
  • Compatibility
  • Mac OS Compatibility
  • macOS 10.14 Mojave
  • macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • macOS 11.0 Big Sur
  • macOS 11.1 Big Sur
  • PC OS Compatibility
  • Windows 10 64-bit Edition
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Other Requirements
  • Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt compatibility requires a certified Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 (mDP) adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 cable. This configuration provides data transfer at Thunderbolt 2 speeds (up to 20Gb/s) but does not support notebook charging.
  • Host Port Requirements
  • Mac or PC with a Thunderbolt 3 port or later
  • Mac with Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt port (requires adapter)
  • Driver Required
  • Download Driver
  • Windows driver required for 8TB and 10TB models

Notes

  • This device has to be connected to the computer via Thunderbolt 3 and it cannot be used as a NAS. The Ethernet port provides the computer with an 1GbE network connection over Thunderbolt 3 but it cannot be used to access the data on the drives over the network.
  • When using 8TB or 10TB HDDs from Seagate and connecting the device to a PC running Windows, please make sure to first install the Windows driver. The DisplayPort does not support DP++. When using a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, make sure to use an active adapter.

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