Configured for your workflowNow with an updated design, Mercury Pro is the premier drive to bring optical media back to your workflow. With a sleek, durable aluminum chassis, and high-speed USB 3.0 interface, Mercury Pro delivers reliable performance that matches its good looks. It's cooler, quieter, and better than ever.Universal USB 3.0 connectivityThe new Mercury Pro is plug-and-play compatible with both Mac and PC workflows, making it your versatile premium optical drive. With high-speed USB 3.0 connectivity, playback of optical media, data transfer, and archive all happen as fast as possible, with bandwidth to spare.The perfect long-term archive solutionM-DISC sets the standard for long-term safe data storage, and the new Mercury Pro supports this revolutionary format, making it the ideal solution for reliable long-term backup and archiving. M-DISC is an archival-quality storage solution that protects your data from degradation and loss for 1,000 years or more.M-DISCs use a proprietary layer made from inorganic, rock-like material for permanent data storage, protected from data rot and extremes of light, humidity and temperature change. Because the M-DISC ready Mercury Pro engraves the data into this layer, write once and read forever.Reliability and support you can count onLike all OWC drives, the Mercury Pro is built to the highest standards of reliability and performance. Because our goal is always 100% reliability, it's rigorously quality tested, and backed by our 1 year warranty and award-winning U.S. based Technical Support.
| Design | |
| Internal: |  |
| Product colour: | Silver |
| Disc loading type: | Tray |
| Mounting: | Vertical/Horizontal |
| Performance | |
| Purpose: | Desktop/Notebook |
| Optical drive type: | Blu-Ray RW |
| Interface: | USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) |
| Disc types supported: | BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-ROM, CD-R, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW |
| Drive device, buffer size: | 4 MB |
| Plug and Play: |  |
| Writing speed | |
| CD write speed: | 48x |
| DVD+R write speed: | 16x |
| CD-R write speed: | 48x |
| CD-RW write speed: | 24x |
| BD-R write speed: | 16x |
| BD-RE write speed: | 2x |
| BD-R Dual Layer write speed: | 12x |
| BD-RE Dual Layer write speed: | 2x |
| Reading speed | |
| CD read speed: | 48x |
| CD-R read speed: | 48x |
| CD-RW read speed: | 40x |
| CD-ROM read speed: | 48x |
| BD-ROM read speed: | 12x |
| BD-R Dual Layer read speed: | 8x |
| BD-R read speed: | 12x |
| BD-RE Dual Layer read speed: | 6x |
| BD-RE read speed: | 8x |
| DVD+R read speed: | 16x |
| DVD-R read speed: | 16x |
| DVD-RW read speed: | 12x |
| DVD-RAM read speed: | 5x |
| DVD-ROM read speed: | 16x |
| DVD-R Double Layer read speed: | 12x |
| DVD-ROM Double Layer read speed: | 12x |
| DVD+R Double Layer read speed: | 12x |
| Access time | |
| DVD drive average random access time: | 160 ms |
| CD-ROM drive average random access time: | 150 ms |
| BD-ROM average random access time: | 180 ms |
| DVD-RAM access time: | 180 ms |
| System requirements | |
| Windows operating systems supported: | |
| Linux operating systems supported: | |
| Mac operating systems supported: | |
| Operational conditions | |
| Operating relative humidity (H-H): | 15 - 80% |
| Operating temperature (T-T): | 5 - 45 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T): | -30 - 60 °C |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H): | 10 - 90% |
| Weight & dimensions | |
| Width: | 168 mm |
| Depth: | 211 mm |
| Height: | 58 mm |
| Weight: | 2.6 kg |
| Packaging content | |
| AC adapter included: | |
| Manual: | |
| Cables included: | AC, USB |
| Technical details | |
| Mounting type: | Freestanding |
| Playback disc formats: | CD audio, CD video, Picture CD |
| Sustainability certificates: | RoHS |
