A portable SSD with style, speed and convenience, he is the “OWC Envoy Pro mini”. It has a pocket size similar to that of a USB flash drive. It uses an aluminum alloy casing to create a built-in high-speed SSD and has a convenient USB-C and USB- A dual-connector design, which can reach 10Gbps transmission performance of USB 3.2 Gen 2, a compact, stylish, high-speed and convenient portable SSD, which can bring out the unique taste of professional workers.
Specifications
Housing: Aluminum Housing
Interface: USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C / Type-A
Speed: USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps
Capacity: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB
Dimensions (LxWxH): 8 x 1.7 x 1.1cm
Weight: 26 g
High-speed portable SSD! OWC Envoy Pro mini 1TB out of the box / USB-C, USB-A
The size of the OWC Envoy Pro mini is quite small. Many players will think that this is a general USB flash drive, but it is a genuine portable SSD. Made of a high-quality aluminum alloy shell, the volume is only 8 x 1.7 x 1.1cm, and there is a sling attached to the neck, so that professional workers can carry the high-speed 1TB Envoy Pro mini with them for file transfer.
Envoy Pro mini adopts a convenient dual-head design, the left rotating structure is USB-A, the right has a cover is USB-C, and the transmission interface uses USB 3.2 Gen 2, so whether it is Mac, Windows or even Linux, Chrome OS All can be used, and the transmission speed can reach 10Gbps, which meets the capacity and high speed required for portable storage.
The OWC Envoy Pro mini made of aluminum alloy shell has a very good texture, and adopts the dual-head USB-A and USB-C structure and USB 3.2 Gen 2 transmission, so it has excellent compatibility and is more suitable as a portable, file A working SSD for swap.
The top of the OWC Envoy Pro mini is the USB-C connector, which is protected by a special cover; the other side is pulled out of the USB-A connector and rotated, and it can be directly connected to a general PC or laptop, so there is no need to worry about carrying a USB-A It is also a USB-C cable because OWC Envoy Pro mini is born with dual connectors.
When in use, both USB-A and USB-C can achieve the transmission performance of USB 3.2 Gen 2, and the rear end of the OWC Envoy Pro mini device has an operation light, which will flash blue when reading and writing.
Mac: OWC Envoy Pro mini 1TB benchmark
When using OWC Envoy Pro mini for the first time, the default file format is the common file format for Windows and Mac. The “OWC Drive Guide” program can be used to format the best file system for the system. Of course, if you want to share the SSD between two platforms, you can only use the exFAT format. Mainly, otherwise Windows is mainly NTFS and Mac is APFS.
Using the OWC Drive Guide will recommend setting the format of the magnetic area according to the computer system. For Mac, it is mainly APFS or HFS+ and other format magnetic areas. Of course, if it is common to Mac / Windows system, it needs to be formatted as exFAT format.
In terms of performance, the OWC Envoy Pro mini was tested on the MacBook Air 2018 laptop, and the AJA System Test 1GB file was read 930 MB/s, written 937 MB/s, and then changed the file to 64GB, read 706 MB/s s, write performance of 737 MB/s.
PC: OWC Envoy Pro mini 1TB performance test
Then use Windows computer for testing, hardware specifications are Intel Core i9-13900K and ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO motherboard, first view the disk information of OWC Envoy Pro mini from CrystalDiskInfo, use USB, UASP transport, NVMe 1.0 supports SMART commands.
Using CrystalDiskMark to test using 0Fill data mode, the OWC Envoy Pro mini sequentially reads 1043.39 MB/s and writes 998.17 MB/s, which is the same as the performance shown on the official website.
General Windows file transfer test, use FastCopy program to read and write different data types, such as single video file 31GB, 100 RAW file photos 2.8GB, game 2077 folder 66.9GB, scattered small files include docx / 26GB total for pdf/jpeg etc.
OWC Envoy Pro mini transmits a single large file with a read rate of 444.14 MB/s and a write rate of 372.16 MB/s; a RAW file photo is read at 408.77 MB/s and written at 199.76 MB/s; game folder copy Read 422.29 MB/s, write 173.2 MB/s; scattered small files read 380.79 MB/s, write 160.64 MB/s.
Summarize
The OWC Envoy Pro mini portable SSD has a high-quality aluminum alloy casing and a convenient design with USB-A and USB-C dual heads, allowing professional workers to transfer files through USB 3.2 Gen 2 regardless of any PC or Mac system. , and the small size of the pocket and the design of the sling, it is definitely the best SSD for portable work.
In terms of performance, the Envoy Pro mini can indeed reach the transmission performance of USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps in the speed test, and the file copy operation of general Windows is also much faster than the general USB flash drive if the number of files is small. The tasks can be completed quickly, but when encountering multi-file, large-capacity continuous tasks, the speed will be slower than the previously tested Envoy Pro Elektron.
However, the OWC Envoy Pro mini is better than the smaller size and the convenient design of USB-A and USB-C dual heads. The tested 1TB OWC Envoy Pro mini is priced at NT$ 5900 in Taiwan. It is a portable SSD with style, speed and convenience.
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Title: OWC Envoy Pro mini 1TB Portable High-Speed SSD Out of the Box / Aluminum Case USB-C, USB-A Universal
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