Backup your company's most essential data with the OWC 16TB Mercury Pro LTO-9 Tape Storage Drive with 16TB Onboard SSD. Designed to fit conveniently within your workstation setup, this tape drive makes long-term storage quick and easy, ideal for businesses of all sizes.

Equipped with a single LTO-9 drive bay, you can archive information onto a single LTO-9 and 8 tape, ensuring your data remains in one piece for on- and off-site preservation. You get data transfer speeds up to 400 and 1000 MB/s with native and compressed files, respectively. An internal 16TB SSD enables you to save data directly to this unit, giving you additional storage for your projects. Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports allow you to connect multiple devices to the Mercury Pro, allowing you to move data quickly, connect a compatible display, or daisy-chain multiple Mercury Pro units together for a truly massive storage solution. The Mercury Pro is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

1 x 16TB SSD    1 x LTO-9 Tape Drive    Thunderbolt 3 Interface    Supports LTO-9 & 8 Tapes    Up to 400 MB/s Native LTO Speeds    Up to 1000 MB/s Compressed LTO Speeds    DisplayPort 1.4 Port    LTO-9 18TB Cartridge Included    1 x Cooling Fan    Compatible with Windows, Mac & Linux

Sporting dual Thunderbolt 3 ports enables you to quickly transfer data, charge your notebooks, and use daisy-chaining capabilities to link multiple compatible devices together, saving you space and setup time. One of the Thunderbolt 3 ports provide you with 85W Power Delivery, charging your notebook while you are managing your data. You can also connect compatible displays, achieving native 5K resolution at 60 Hz refresh rate.

A single DisplayPort 1.4 video output enables you to connect a display to the Mercury Pro, turning it into an essential part of your desktop setup. This port supports resolutions up 8K at 60 Hz refresh rate or 4K resolution at 120 Hz refresh rate for a clean and smooth picture.

Store your information right out of the box with the included LTO-9 18TB cartridge. You can store up to 18TB of information in native format or up to 45TB when compressed, allowing you to properly archive a large volume of information easily.

The aluminum housing includes a single fan designed to reduce thermal build-up, keeping your internal components cool which is essential when migrating large files.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Can these be stacked, or is heat an issue?

A: The vents on the OWC 8TB Mercury Elite Pro External Hard Drive are located on the sides, and not the top of the drive, so you could potentially stack them, but dues to the shape of the drive and the nature of rotating HDDs, I would not advise it.

Q: 2. What is the read/write speed of the new 3.2 Generation 2? It states in the description the transfer speed is 1250/MB/s. However, here in the question and answer it states the read write speed is only around 400mb/s/ Curious as to which one is accurate for the read/write speed actually is for the 3.2?

A: USB 3.2 gen 1 supports up to 10Gbps (1250MB/s). The read and write speed will depend on several factors including the drives being used and the RAID mode being used. OWC mentions how they got those numbers on their website: Up to 1026MB/s sequential read/write performance with 2 x 1.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSDs in RAID 0 connected to a Windows 10 PC (GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD5 motherboard with 16GB RAM, Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz processor) running Crystal Disk Mark 7.0.0x64 (1GB test size, Q8T1). Up to 567MB/s sequential read/write performance with 2 x 16.0TB Seagate Exos X16 HDDs I. RAID 0 connected to 15-inch MacBook Pro 2018 (MacBookPro15,1) with 16GB RAM and 2.2GHz processor running AJA System Test (4K-Full resolution, 64GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, single file test). Performance will vary depending on drives and application used.

Q: 3. I have several FireWire drives. I want to mount one at a time to this drive to transfer content. I would need to use the USB port to connect to my Mac Mini to make this transfer with Carbon Copy Cloner

A: It is not possible to mount a FireWire drive connected to the OWC 16TB Mercury Elite Pro External Hard Drive to a Mac over a USB host connection. In order to daisy chain a Firewire drive, you will need to connect the OWC Mercury Elite Pro to your Mac over Firewire.

Q: 4. SPECS says package weight is 3.635 ib. but Weight of drive is 0.13 ib /58 g. is that correct?

A: This was a web error and will be addressed by our web team shortly. Apologies for the mix up. This drive weighs 3.65 pounds.

Q: 5. Does this work on an OS 10.6 Apple?

A: It's an enclosure the OS that you use it with won't matter.

Q: 6. Can I connect my camcorder to transfer videos directly to this enclosure? My camcorder has a 1394 port.

A: If the camcorder is compatible with external drives, then yes, you will be able to connect the OWC 20TB Mercury Elite Pro External Hard Drive via the 1394B Firewire 800 port.

Q: 7. What are the minimum system requirements?

A: the OWC 16TB Mercury Elite Pro External Hard Drive BH #OWCME3QH7T16 only requires that a host machine have a USB3, eSATA or Firewire 800 port to work.

Q: 8. is this compatible with M1 MAC?

A: The OWC 12TB Mercury Elite Pro External Hard Drive (USB 3.2 Gen 1) is compatible with a M1 Mac. Depending on the exact model you might need a USB Type-C to USB Type-A adapter.

Q: 9. I want to use this as a storage drive and for backup of my photos on a Windows 8.1 pc with a capacity of 1.8 TB and only 620GB used now. Is this ready just to plug in and use? Easy to use?

A: You might need to change the RAID mode depending on your needs but the drive is easy to use.

Q: 10. What brand of hard disk drive comes with this unit? If it’s the Toshiba, I will purchase it. If Seagate, probably not.

A: Unfortunately, the manufacturer doesn't specify the brand of the drives include with the OWC 16TB Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Hard Drive. The brand may vary based on availability.