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Taxes and shipping are not included in ACMI and are subject to your card’s variable APR. See our reviews policy, and check out more in-depth reviews of Apple-related items.* Monthly pricing is available when you select Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) as payment type at checkout at Apple, and is subject to credit approval and credit limit. OWC provided Cult of Mac with a review unit for this article. I reviewed that massive drive enclosure as well. If you have more space on your desk and a need for even greater storage capacity, consider the OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual instead. The price goes up from there to $1,249 for an 18 TB version. The OWC MiniStack STX starts at $279 for the version without preinstalled drives. It’s a very useful combination of additional Thunderbolt/USB-C ports and room for additional storage. But the MiniStack STX offers Mac mini users a combination Thunderbolt hub and drive enclosure that stacks nearly with their desktop, and also cuts down on cord clutter. At least that’s what my kindergarten teacher told me – my desk often looks like a bomb went off on it.

OWC MiniStack STX final thoughtsĪ tidy desk is a happy desk. Slot the drive into place, close up, and you’re done. Opening the OWC MiniStack STX to insert or take out a drive is as easy as removing a few of screws. An HHD naturally has slower read/write speeds than the SSD I tested earlier. I copied the same file from this drive to my computer in 52 seconds. To test its speed, I copied the same 10.5 GB file used earlier from my computer to the HHD, which took 46 seconds. Open the OWC MiniStack STX to reveal the drive bay and slot. The hub is available without any drives, or you can buy it preconfigured with up to 18 TB of storage. My review unit came with a 2TB, 3.5-inch SATA hard drive from Western Digital, model WD20EZBX. Inside are a SATA HDD/SSD bay and an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot. More than just a Thunderbolt hub, the OWC MiniStack STX is also a drive enclosure.

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