- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Other World Computing
- Manufacturer Website Address
- https://www.owc.com/
- Brand Name
- OWC
- Product Line
- miniStack STX
- Packaged Quantity
- 1
- Product Type
- Drive Enclosure
Mini Sized. Mammoth Possibilities.
Just like great duos Kirk and Spock, Frodo and Sam, or Woody and Buzz, the miniStack and the Mac mini have been the perfect pair since 2005. Now featuring Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, the miniStack STX continues its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have.
With a universal SATA HDD/SSD bay AND an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot, you can expand your mini's storage capacity to gigantic proportions. Three Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports enable you to connect to millions of Thunderbolt, USB, and future USB4 drives, displays, A/V mixers, cameras, tablets, and desktop accessories like a keyboard, card reader, or mouse. The possibilities of how you can use your Mac mini is now only limited to your imagination.
Xpands Notebooks, Tablets and More
While sized identical to the Mac mini, the miniStack STX is a sleek, complementary companion for MacBook and PC notebook and desktop machines, iPads, and Chromebooks as well. While highly powerful, these machines are often limited in the number and variety of ports they offer. The miniStack STX solves that expansion limitation with a new world of increased connectivity and storage capacity.
The Dual Drive Dynamo
Just like superheroes have an alter ego, so too does the miniStack STX. The universal SATA drive bay holds a hard disk drive or SSD for big capacity data storage. When you need to support low latency instant access operations, the NVMe M.2 SSD slot reveals miniStack STX's ferocious power. NVMe was designed to deliver the speed potential of modern flash drive technology by using a more direct path to a computer's processor over PCIe (requires Thunderbolt host). As a result, you can enjoy near instant access performance with the miniStack STX.
Edit. Save. Access. Like a Pro
With multiple drive configurations available, you can experience up to 770MB/s of real-world data transfer speed. Move 5GB of GoPro footage in about 6 seconds. Transfer 1000s of photos from that priceless event in mere seconds. Use the SATA drive for Time Machine or File History backups while working off the NVMe drive. With heavyweight performance like this, the miniStack STX is great for multi-stream compressed 4K video editing, photography, audio, virtual machines, and everyday data tasks.
More Powerful With SoftRAID
Need more power and protection? Choose a solution that includes OWC's powerful SoftRAID RAID software.
SoftRAID is the most powerful, intuitive software RAID utility on the market. Multiple RAID levels let you select the RAID level that fits you or your project's needs best. If you need maximum volume capacity, optimum drive performance, data protection, or a combination of attributes, SoftRAID has you covered.
Packed with features like drive validation, verification and failure prediction-SoftRAID includes features you simply don't get with hardware RAID. It's like having a datacenter on your desktop! From home users looking to protect photos and documents to professionals needing to protect and quickly access projects, SoftRAID is the perfect solution.
- Warranty
- Limited Warranty
- 3 Year
- Technical Information
- Number of Hard Drives Supported
- 1
- Number of Hard Drives Installed
- 1
- Total Hard Drive Capacity Installed
- 8 TB
- Number of Solid State Drive Supported
- 1
- Maximum Data Transfer Rate
- 40 Gbit/s
- Controllers
- Software RAID Supported
- Yes
- I/O Expansions
- Number of Total Expansion Bays
- 1
- Number of 2.5"/3.5" Bays
- 1
- Hot Swappable Bays
- Yes
- Interfaces/Ports
- Drive Interface
- Serial ATA
- PCI Express NVMe 3.0
- Host Interface
- Thunderbolt 4
- Software
- Operating System Supported
- Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave
- Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina
- Mac OS X 11.x Big Sur
- Mac OS X 12.x Monterey
- Mac OS X 13.x Ventura
- Mac OS X 14.x Sonoma
- Windows 10
- Windows 10 x64
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows 11
- Android
- ChromeOS
- Linux
- iPadOS 14
- iPadOS 15
- Android 11.x
- Android 12.x
- Android 13.x
- iPadOS 16
- iPadOS 17
- iPadOS 13
- macOS 11.1
- macOS Sequoia 15.x
- iPadOS 18
- macOS Mojave 10.14.6
- Physical Characteristics
- Color Family
- Black
- Product Color
- Black
- Matte Black
- Product Material
- Aluminum
- Cooling Fan
- Yes
- Height
- 1.5"
- Width
- 7.8"
- Depth
- 7.8"
- Weight (Approximate)
- 3.57 lb
- Miscellaneous
- Package Contents
- miniStack STX Storage Solution
- 1 x External Power Supply
- 1 x US Power Cable
- 1 x 0.3M (11.8") Thunderbolt (USB-C) Cable
- 1 x Quick Start Guide for OWC miniStack STX
- 1 x User Guide for OWC miniStack STX
- Compatibility
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2022)
- MacBook Pro (14-inch, Early 2023)
- MacBook Pro (14-inch, Late 2021)
- MacBook Pro (14-inch, Late 2023)
- MacBook Pro (14-inch, Late 2024)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, Early 2023)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, Late 2021)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, Late 2023)
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, Late 2024)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 13-inch, Late 2020)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 13-inch, Mid 2019)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 13-inch, Mid 2020)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 15-inch, Mid 2019)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 16-inch, Mid 2019)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2016)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2017)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, Touch Bar, 13-inch, Late 2016)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, Touch Bar, 15-inch, Late 2016)
- MacBook Pro (Touch, 13-inch, Mid 2017)
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