OWC Announces Envoy Pro mini the Ultimate Works With Everything Pocket-Sized USB-C and USB-A SSD

[TheLostSwede]

OWC, a leading customer-focused creator of innovative solutions for over 30 years that have enabled individuals, businesses, content professionals, and educators to get maximum usefulness from their technology investment, today introduced the OWC Envoy Pro mini. The OWC Envoy Pro mini is a pocket-sized SSD with full-sized SSD performance and capacity for audio, photography, graphics, gaming, and general data storage/backup uses. Now, everyday users, students, mobile professionals, IT techs, and content creators can take, access, save, and share their data anywhere. The OWC Envoy Pro mini works with USB and Thunderbolt (USB-C) Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, and Surface devices made over the last 15 years. Available in 250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB capacities and can access and transfer data with everything at up to 946 MB/s real-world speed with Plug and Play ease.

Using the Envoy Pro mini in a mixed Mac and Windows environment is remarkably easy with the addition of OWC's MacDrive (sold separately). This seamless software runs in the background, so there is nothing to launch or learn. Just plug in the Envoy Pro mini, and not only do you have instant-read access, but full write access. MacDrive also includes powerful features that enable you to format and partition drives and repair fundamental disk issues.




Boot, Backup, Beats, and Blockbusters
Launch your OS and apps on a remote machine. Back up important data, a business presentation, or a classroom project. Capture some sweet drumbeats in a 24-track session or tracks from your DJ deck. Watch a blockbuster movie on a Smart TV 2, whatever your data desire. The Envoy Pro mini lets you do it all:

• Store photos, videos, movies, music, and documents
• Consolidate files from multiple smaller drives for faster, more convenient access
• Migrate data from an existing machine to a new computer
• Free up space on a computer's internal drive to improve performance
• Schedule Time Machine or File History backups of essential business data and irreplaceable personal photos
• Create a secondary/portable OS boot drive
• Explore, share, and travel with large Affinity Photo and Adobe Photoshop master files
• Record tracks on a multitrack mixer
• Utilize large sample libraries within audio projects
• Create a portable Steam games library
• Expand game storage of console gaming systems

OWC Envoy Pro mini Highlights

• Universally compatible: plug and play with USB or Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports on Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, and Surface devices
• Versatile: perfect for audio, photography, graphics, gaming, and general data storage/backup uses
• Protective: Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
• Game on: ideal for game storage with PlayStation and Xbox consoles
• Entertainment center: watch videos, listen to music, and view pictures through your Smart TV
• Bootable: Startup and launch apps in just seconds
• Slim: keeps adjacent ports available for use
• Pocket-sized: thumb drive-sized and bus-powered for easy transport and use anywhere
• Wear and share: safety breakaway neck lanyard keeps drive at fingertip reach while a detachable end offers easy drive sharing between devices and other users
• Silent: heat-dissipating machined aluminium housing for calm and quiet use
• Worry-free: 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

Pricing & Availability
The OWC Envoy Pro mini is available for pre-order in 250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB capacities on Macsales.com, starting at $79.00.

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[ymbaja]

Well, they didn’t go for simplicity… why not just have the “C” port on one end and the “A” port on the other? I guess this way you kind of got a fidget spinner/thumb drive in one.

 

[Chaitanya]

Well, they didn’t go for simplicity… why not just have the “C” port on one end and the “A” port on the other? I guess this way you kind of got a fidget spinner/thumb drive in one.

Atleast this way the Type-C adapter wont be misplaced unlike the Samsung's solution.

Prices are quite absurd, these days 1TB external SSDs(Samsung and others) are selling for under $120 so $79 for 250GB drive makes no sense and 256GB flash drives and be had for under $30 though they are significantly slower(~150MBps).

 

[bonehead123]

Should be useful with some good features, but price-wise and aesthetically, a major f.A.i.L IMHO........

 

[NC37]

Atleast this way the Type-C adapter wont be misplaced unlike the Samsung's solution.

Prices are quite absurd, these days 1TB external SSDs(Samsung and others) are selling for under $120 so $79 for 250GB drive makes no sense and 256GB flash drives and be had for under $30 though they are significantly slower(~150MBps).

OWC = Mac Users. Only reason they can charge that much. They are an echo of a company they once were before the x86 switch. Same as all the other Mac upgrade makers from pre 05. All they can muster since is expensive accessories and add ons. If only they had the balls then to sue Apple for crippling their industry and shuttering the rest of it.

 

[trsttte]

Atleast this way the Type-C adapter wont be misplaced unlike the Samsung's solution.

Prices are quite absurd, these days 1TB external SSDs(Samsung and others) are selling for under $120 so $79 for 250GB drive makes no sense and 256GB flash drives and be had for under $30 though they are significantly slower(~150MBps).

Also given the general quality of memory used in usb drives vs what's on SSDs, this makes no sense at any capacity