The OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad is a four-bay external storage enclosure supplied with 16TB of storage installed (4 x 4TB drives), with OWC's SoftRAID software included.
Connection: a USB-C port running at USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s) works with any USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 equipped Mac or Windows PC. A USB-C cable and a USB-C to USB-A cable are included, so it also works with computers that only have older USB-A ports.
Drive bays: four universal bays accept 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA drives, allowing the enclosure to be expanded up to 48TB.
RAID: set the drives up as one large volume for capacity, striped for speed (up to 947MB/s quoted by OWC), or with redundancy to protect your data, using SoftRAID or the RAID modes built into Windows. RAID 4 and RAID 1+0 (10) are currently Mac only.
Design: aluminium enclosure with a quiet cooling fan and vibration-absorbing feet, front activity LEDs, a lockable front panel and a rear Kensington-compatible lock slot. Drive-equipped models are burn-in tested by OWC before dispatch.
Warranty: 3 year OWC limited warranty.
Full specification
What's inside
Capacity
16TB
Data Transfer Rates
USB 3.2 Gen 2 : Up to 10Gb/s (or 1250MB/s)
Dimensions
Height: 18.5 cm (7.3 in)
Length: 24.0 cm (9.4 in)
Width: 13.5 cm (5.3 in)
Drive Configuration
4 x 4TB SATA hard drives
Form Factor
2.5",3.5"
Interface Type
USB 3.2 Gen 2 (USB-C) up to 10Gb/s (1250MB/s) - USB 2.0/3.0 backwards compatible
MPN
OWCMEQCTSRT16
Packaging
Retail packaging
System Requirements
Mac OS Compatibility
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
OS X 10.9 Mavericks
OS X 10.10 Yosemite
OS X 10.11 El Capitan
macOS 10.12 Sierra
macOS 10.13 High Sierra
macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 10.15 Catalina
macOS 11.x Big Sur
macOS 12.x Monterey
macOS 13.x Ventura
macOS 14.x Sonoma
macOS 15.x Sequoia
PC OS Compatibility
Windows 7 32-bit Edition
Windows 7 64-bit Edition
Windows Home Server 2011
Windows 8 32-bit Edition
Windows 8 64-bit Edition
Windows 8.1 32-bit Edition
Windows 8.1 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2012
Windows 10 32-bit Edition
Windows 10 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2022
Windows 11
Other Requirements
SoftRAID works with macOS 10.14 or later and Windows 10 or later. SoftRAID is licensed per computer. The SoftRAID serial number will work with both Mac and Windows but can only be active on one computer at a time. Additional seats can be purchased. RAID 4/1+0 (10) are currently Mac only at this time.
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