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

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.

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 CD M-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)