OWC Launches the Envoy Pro Mini External USB Drive

OWC Launches the Envoy Pro Mini External USB Drive

OWC is an American computer hardware company and online store for Mac upgrades and accessories. And recently, OWC has launched a new storage device – OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive. This new OWC USB drive is in a small dimension and it is convenient to carry out.

In the following paragraphs, more detailed specifications will be introduced.

The OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive looks larger than the traditional USB flash drive. Its dimension is about 23.9x94x11.2mm and it weighs just 60g. Therefore, it is small enough to fit in a pocket and you can carry it out in daily life.

And the surface of the OWC Envoy Pro mini External USB drive is the aluminum since it is sturdy, good looking and light. In addition, this aluminum material has a good ability of heat dissipation.

The OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive has utilized the Silicon Motion SM2285XT flash controller and an Asmedia 1153e USB 3.1 Gen 1 controller, thus it can provide high read and write performance. And for the performance, OWC claims that its transfer rate can reach up to 450MB/s which is faster than some traditional USB drives.

So if you need to access some large and important files, the OWC Envoy Pro external hard drive makes it easy to shuttle, share, and collaborate on your next blockbuster.

In addition, OWC engineers have implemented block management and wear leveling algorithms, and techniques to improve the lifespan of the drive, which does support NCQ and SMART as well.

In addition, there are different capacities of the OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive, which respectively are 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. So users can choose any one based on their demands and it can also help users to store more large files.

The OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive also has universal compatibility. It can work on both MAC and PC. So if you want to transfer a lot of files to this OWC USB drive, you can choose an easier way that is to clone a whole hard drive. Thus, the professional partition manager – MiniTool Partition Wizard would be a good assistant.

Price and Warranty

This product manages to squeeze a solid state drive into the body of a USB flash drive. It delivers some very solid performance with some great numbers backed by OWC’S three-year warranty. And prices of the OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive are about $79, $119 and $179 aiming at the three different capacities.

However, the price is more expensive than the traditional USB drives. As a matter of fact, the 240GB and 480GB model has a lower cost per GB and provide more wiggle room, especially if you want to migrate OS to this drive, or transfer a large file to this OWC USB drive or edit 4k video.

Final Words

After reading this post, you can know the OWC has launched the new portable OWC Envoy Pro mini USB drive with large capacities and this USB drive also has a good read and write performance. Users can choose any one based on their demands.