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OWC Debuts 'Fastest USB-C SSD Ever' With Up to 2TB of Storage

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OWC, a well-known maker of storage solutions for Macs and PCs, today debuted what it says is "the fastest USB-C SSD ever."

owc envoy pro ex usb c
The new OWC Envoy Pro EX with USB-C is a bus-powered NVMe M.2 SSD with transfer speeds up to 980MB/s, one bay with up to 2TB of storage, and Thunderbolt 3 compatibility on both Macs and PCs. The external drive has a silver anodized aluminum housing with IP67-rated water and dust resistance.

Regular pricing is as follows:

The new OWC Envoy Pro EX with USB-C is available now at MacSales.com.

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oneMadRssn Avatar
oneMadRssn
94 months ago
not to nitpick.. but enclosure alone price is $89. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ENVPROC2N00/
Pretty reasonable price actually...
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
embraceware Avatar
embraceware
94 months ago
I much prefer their Thunderbolt 3 drive:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-envoy-pro-ex-thunderbolt-3

2800MB/s Read
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macduke Avatar
macduke
94 months ago
OWC, a well-known maker of storage solutions for Macs and PCs, today debuted ('https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-screaming-new-owc-envoy-pro-ex-with-usb-c-is-the-fastest-usb-c-ssd-ever-built-300872607.html') what it says is "the fastest USB-C SSD ever."
Nitpick: fastest external SSD ever is actually Samsung X5: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/portable/x5/ with 2TB capacity and ~2,800 MB/s read/write speeds.
Nitpick: That's not what they claimed.

Nitpick: The X5 is Thunderbolt 3 only.

:)
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
G5isAlive Avatar
G5isAlive
94 months ago
not to nitpick.. but enclosure alone price is $89. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ENVPROC2N00/
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
RobbieTT Avatar
RobbieTT
94 months ago
I agree that the use of Thunderbolt 3 in the title is misleading to the extreme. The licence behind the Thunderbolt 3 name specifically prohibits its use in these circumstances. For a forum that specialises in Apple technology that includes TB3 the error is unforgivable.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/trademarks/thunderbolt-3.html
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
NickName99 Avatar
NickName99
94 months ago
I much prefer their Thunderbolt 3 drive:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-envoy-pro-ex-thunderbolt-3

2800MB/s Read
Interesting that they don’t offer that in enclosure-only option. It seems like they’re charging about $150 for it, since it’s $300 for the 1TB, and $150 is the going rate for 1TB of high quality NVMe SSD (Samsung 860 EVO for example).

I’d be much more interested in a TB3 enclosure for $150 than a USB 3.1 enclosure for $90.

I’ve recently been pricing out all this stuff, I ended up buying a 2TB external hard drive for $55. It’s a 2.5” hard disk drive, only about 120MB/s, but so cheap! I just wanted a second backup drive before deleting some things off my MacBook Pro SSD. It looks like they marked it back up to $69 now, but the 4TB is only $79:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07MXZ1XRZ
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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