[Aluminum] This is my third HD, whenever I needed Tech Support via chat OWC is fantastic. They were able to resolve an issue that Lightroom was giving. Well made and quite.

[Aluminum] This is my third HD, whenever I needed Tech Support via chat OWC is fantastic. They were able to resolve an issue that Lightroom was giving. Well made and quite.

[4.615 lb] Does what a hard drive should do. Fast

[4.615 lb] Does what a hard drive should do. Fast

[4.615 lb] Does what a hard drive should do. Fast

[4.615 lb] First of all: I am a retired old guy with years of computer industry experience. What I have digitized: files; digital photos; music is about 10 TB worth of data. My preference is to have data physically under my control because I don't trust security in the cloud and I don't want to worry about upload download times given my awful local monopoly internet provider.

Suffice it to say, Back Up is fairly major deity in my pantheon.

This is my second Mercury Elite Drive -- the previous was 14TB.

My past is littered with WD, Seagate and La Cie drives, none of which seem to make it past three years of use, few make it past 2. Two years ago I tried Mercury:

Plus: more reliable than the competition (big plus)
and: an industrial strength USB connector on the drive, not the flimsy thing the competitors use

Negative: Noisy -- especially as a music server.

But for home use and control of one's information -- the best on the market

[4.615 lb] First of all: I am a retired old guy with years of computer industry experience. What I have digitized: files; digital photos; music is about 10 TB worth of data. My preference is to have data physically under my control because I don't trust security in the cloud and I don't want to worry about upload download times given my awful local monopoly internet provider.

Suffice it to say, Back Up is fairly major deity in my pantheon.

This is my second Mercury Elite Drive -- the previous was 14TB.

My past is littered with WD, Seagate and La Cie drives, none of which seem to make it past three years of use, few make it past 2. Two years ago I tried Mercury:

Plus: more reliable than the competition (big plus)
and: an industrial strength USB connector on the drive, not the flimsy thing the competitors use

Negative: Noisy -- especially as a music server.

But for home use and control of one's information -- the best on the market

[4.615 lb] First of all: I am a retired old guy with years of computer industry experience. What I have digitized: files; digital photos; music is about 10 TB worth of data. My preference is to have data physically under my control because I don't trust security in the cloud and I don't want to worry about upload download times given my awful local monopoly internet provider.

Suffice it to say, Back Up is fairly major deity in my pantheon.

This is my second Mercury Elite Drive -- the previous was 14TB.

My past is littered with WD, Seagate and La Cie drives, none of which seem to make it past three years of use, few make it past 2. Two years ago I tried Mercury:

Plus: more reliable than the competition (big plus)
and: an industrial strength USB connector on the drive, not the flimsy thing the competitors use

Negative: Noisy -- especially as a music server.

But for home use and control of one's information -- the best on the market

[ 3.5" HDD ] I am a professional videographer and editor and my editing system is set up so I can fly effortlessly on it. However, because some of my peripherals are supported by older OS it is difficult to find external drives that are supported by an older OS as well as still have FW800 ports. OWC ticked both boxes so I bought an 8TB version hoping that it will have enough space to last a couple of years.

I just finished editing a 2-month editing project with about 300GB of greenscreen, video of different codecs and a fair amount of compositing. The drive has performed flawlessly.

I wanted to dock it one star because this thing is noisy...disconcertingly so. I was backing everything up every day to other drives in case this one crashed. If I moved the drive slightly, the vibrating noise would go away but come back. After a while, I realized the drive was not going to crash but never got used to all the buzzing and humming.

I gave it 5-stars regardless of the noise because while all the other manufacturers assume all us users buy a new computer system every year, OWC realizes that there are a lot of older systems still out here being used and making money despite ever-tighter profit margins so kudos to them for that!

[ 3.5" HDD ] I am a professional videographer and editor and my editing system is set up so I can fly effortlessly on it. However, because some of my peripherals are supported by older OS it is difficult to find external drives that are supported by an older OS as well as still have FW800 ports. OWC ticked both boxes so I bought an 8TB version hoping that it will have enough space to last a couple of years.

I just finished editing a 2-month editing project with about 300GB of greenscreen, video of different codecs and a fair amount of compositing. The drive has performed flawlessly.

I wanted to dock it one star because this thing is noisy...disconcertingly so. I was backing everything up every day to other drives in case this one crashed. If I moved the drive slightly, the vibrating noise would go away but come back. After a while, I realized the drive was not going to crash but never got used to all the buzzing and humming.

I gave it 5-stars regardless of the noise because while all the other manufacturers assume all us users buy a new computer system every year, OWC realizes that there are a lot of older systems still out here being used and making money despite ever-tighter profit margins so kudos to them for that!