Portable hard drives are great tools for expanding storage capacity of laptops and mobile devices, or sharing data with others, but you sacrifice speed for portability. Other World Computing (OWC) has a new series of super fast eSATA 6G drives that change all that.

According to an OWC press release, the Mercury Elite Pro mini is the industry’s first eSATA 6G and bus-powered USB 3.0 portable storage device. The eSATA 6G drives are capable of transferring data at rates comparable to internal hard drives, so you can work with the data on the portable storage device without sacrificing performance.