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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. The miniStack STX now features Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, continuing its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have. Meet the world’s first Thunderbolt certified Thunderbolt 4 storage solution.
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 and tablets; as well as desktop accessories like a keyboard, card reader, or mouse. Now the possibilities of how you can use your Mac mini are limited only to your imagination.
Massive Capacity
Add over 200x greater data storage on top of your Mac mini's built-in storage1
More Connectivity
Add a mix of up to five Thunderbolt devices, three USB devices, and two displays2,3
Whisper-Quiet
An aluminum housing with internal heat sink and high-efficiency cooling fan provides cool, nearly silent operation
Maximum Compatibility
Use with Thunderbolt or USB equipped Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets… virtually anything that supports external storage2
Data Security
Add RAID 1 protection with optional OWC SoftRAID software
Easy Backups
Apple Time Machine and Windows File History ready
Plug and Play
Includes Thunderbolt cable
Color-Matched for Your Mac
OWC miniStack STX is all about options – including color. Choose from Matte Silver or Matte Black to match your style.
Matte Silver
Matte Black
Xpands Notebooks, Tablets, and More
Sized identically to the Mac mini, the miniStack STX is also a sleek, complementary companion for MacBook and PC notebook and desktop machines, iPads, and Chromebooks. 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 performance. When you need to support low latency instant access operations, the NVMe M.2 SSD slot reveals miniStack STX’s ferocious nature. 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.5 As a result, you can enjoy on-demand high performance with the miniStack STX.