OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock
Device Setup
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Follow the steps below to use the OWC Drive Guide utility to format your Mercury Elite Pro Dock. If you are
installing your own drives, please skip ahead to the next section.
1. Power on the Mercury Elite Pro Dock and plug it into to your computer with the Thunderbolt 3 cable. If you
prefer to use a different formatting utility, do so at this time and skip the rest of these steps.
2. The disk will mount and your operating system will display it as ‘OWC SETUP’. Double-click that icon.
3. Within the drive folder, double-click the ‘OWC Drive Guide’ application.
4. Follow the simple on-screen instructions to complete the formatting process. Once the formatting is
finished the drive is ready to use.
2.1 Assembly Steps
This section describes the process of installing your own drives; formatting information is available in Section
3.1. If your Mercury Elite Pro Dock shipped with drives installed, they are pre-configured as a RAID 0; see the
steps above for using Drive Guide to format your RAID 0 volume.
1. Remove the device from the box and set on a static free
work surface.
2. Remove the two screws highlighted in red from the back of
the enclosure and set them aside.
3. Pull on the front edge of the enclosure so the inner-chassis
slides out, then remove it fully.
4. Set the inner chassis flat on the work surface, shown below
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