OWC Mercury Pro 16X Blu-ray, 16X DVD, 48X CD Read/Write Solution

About this item

Aluminum housed desktop optical drive with USB 3.0 and M-DISC support for reliable long-term storage.
Archive quality M-DISC compatibility
Mac and PC compatible: OS X 10.6 and later; Windows XP and later
Includes: 16X External Blu-ray Burner; 0.6 meter (24") USB 3.0 Cable; External power cable; User guide
Sleek, durable aluminum chassis; 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty

Product Description

MERCURY PRO: The ultimate desktop optical.

Now 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.

Configured for your workflow

Universal USB 3.0 connectivity

The 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 solution

M-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 on

Like 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 24/7 Customer Support.

OWC Mercury Pro 16X External Blu-ray Burner
0.6 meter (24") USB 3.0 (Standard-A to Standard-B)
External power supply and power cable
User guide
UNIVERSAL USB 3.0 CONNECTIVITY
The 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.
Mercury Pro is available in two optical media burner configurations to match your storage, transfer and archive requirements.
- 24x DVD Disc burner. Backup, share and create as fast as possible, and playback any DVD media up to 4.7 GB capacity.
- 16x Blu-ray Disc burner. For the highest quality recordings, and large project storage up to 100 GB. Playback retail
- Mercury Pro Specifications:
  
  OWC Part Number
- MR3UBDRW16
  Software Requirements
- OS
- OS X 10.6 or later
- Windows XP or later
- Driver
- Driver not required
- Hardware Requirements
- Minimum
- Mac or PC featuring USB 2.0 interface
- Recommended (Best Performance)
- Mac or PC featuring USB 3.0 interface
- Interface (Chipset)
- (1) USB 3.0 (ASMedia ASM1053E)
- Standard Mechanism
- LG WH16NS40 16X 5.25" Internal Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
  Power Supply
- Internal UL-listed, universal auto-switching
- AC input: 100 ∼ 240V, 50-60Hz
- DC output: 12V, 3A
  Dimensions
- Height: 2.0 in (5.2 cm)
- Width: 6.5 in (16.6cm)
- Length: 8.3 in (21.0 cm)
  Weight
- With Drive: 5.7 lbs. (2.6 kg)
- Without Drive: 4.0 lbs. (1.8 kg)
  LG Super Multi Blue Specs:
  Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
  Form Factor: 5.25" Desktop
  Interface: SATA
  Loading Mechanism: Tray
  Buffer Memory: 4MB
- Performance:
  Access Time
  BD-ROM: 180ms typ.
  DVD-ROM: 160ms typ.
  DVD-RAM: 180ms typ.
  CD-ROM: 150ms typ.
- Supported Formats:
  BD-ROM (SL/DL), BD-RE (SL/DL), BD-R (SL/DL), DVD-ROM (SL/DL), DVD-R (SL/DL), DVD-RW, DVD+R (SL/DL), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-ROM, XA-Ready, CD-I, Photo-CD (Single & Multi-Session), Video-CD, CD-Audio Disc, Mixed Mode, CD-ROM (Data and Audio), CD-R, CD-RW
  Data Capacity
  128GB : Blu-ray Quad Layer
  50GB : Blu-ray Double Layer
  25GB : Blu-ray
  8.5GB : DVD General Use Double Layer
  4.6GB : DVD General Use
  700MB : 79 minute CD
  650MB : 74 minute CD
  550MB : 63 minute CDM-DISC Support
  Yes, M-DISC DVD / Blu-ray engraving / burning requires M-DISC specific media (available separately)
  Maximum Read Speeds
  BD-ROM: 12X
  BD-R: 12X
  BD-RE: 8X
  BD-ROM (Dual Layer): 8X
  BD-R (Dual Layer): 8X
  BD-RE (Dual Layer): 6X
  BD-R (Triple Layer): 6X
  BD-R (Quad Layer): 6X
  DVD-RAM: 5X
  DVD-R: 16X
  DVD+R: 16X
  DVD-R (Dual Layer): 12X
  DVD+R (Dual Layer): 12X
  DVD-RW: 12X
  DVD+RW: 12X
  DVD-ROM: 16X
  DVD-ROM (Dual Layer): 12X
  CD-ROM: 48X
  CD-R: 48X
  CD-RW: 40X
  Maximum Write Speeds
  BD-R: 16X
  BD-RE: 2X
  BD-R (Dual Layer): 12X
  BD-R (Triple Layer): 12X
  BD-R (Quad Layer): 6X
  BD-RE (Dual Layer): 2X
  BD-RE (Triple Layer): 2X
  M-DISC/+M: 4X
  DVD-RAM: 5X
  DVD-R: 16X
  DVD+R: 16X
  DVD-R (Dual Layer): 8X
  DVD+R (Dual Layer): 8X
  DVD-RW: 6X
  DVD+RW: 8X
  CD-R: 48X
  CD-RW: 24X
- System Requirements:
  Mac
  Mac OS X 10.6 or higher
  Available 5.25" drive bay and SATA connection
  Burning software that supports Blu-ray, such as Toast.
  At this time Commercial Blue-ray movie playback not supported in OS X.
  Minimum of 1 GB of RAM
  30GB or more available hard drive space (60GB for Blu-ray Disc authoring)