OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual

A superspeed SSD solution for your desktop

- HOLLIN JONES

The dual bay design houses up to 8 SSD drives in a unit that sits easily on your desktop.

Enclosure $299.99, With 2x1TB SSD $549, With 2x2TB SSD $819 From owcdigital.com

Features 8 NVMe SSDs, SoftRAID, 2800MB/s Needs MacOS 10.13 or later, Thunderbolt 3 port

WC's Mercury Pro U.2 Dual bridges the company's enterprise and consumer lines, bringing potentially huge storage capacities and blazing fast speeds to a desktop-sized unit. It's designed both for backup and general use, though the fact that it uses NVMe SSD drives, a newer format which offers up to 2800MB/sec of throughput, means it will be of particular interest to those working with large media files – for example editing multiple streams of high-bandwidth video.

Dual Thunderbolt ports let you daisy chain up to five devices.