As much as we would like to disconnect from anything work related when we go on vacation, we sometimes just can’t afford to do that and need to keep tabs on work. But how can you do that without much hassle?
There are many products meant to help you stay connected and productive while you are on the go, but let’s be honest—some are very price prohibiting and do not deliver as much as you would like them to.
When You Can’t Break Away from Work
My husband is a small business owner, and he brings work with him everywhere we go, which I have come to accept and understand. Because I will very much love to go away this holiday season, I decided to look for a couple of gadgets that would make our trip as easy as possible while allowing the husband to stay connected with work.
USB-C Travel Dock
Because space is precious when you are traveling, this compact USB-C Travel Dock brings portable connectivity to your PC or Mac. With up to 60 W pass-through power, this little gadget is a must for your next vacation or business trip.
The USB-C Travel Dock allows you to connect to the laptop’s drive and HD display; connect, power, or charge up to two USB devices; and access photos from your camera’s SD card.
What Can It Do?
The travel dock comes with:
• One USB 3.1 type C auxiliary power cord delivering up to 60 W of power to connect devices
• One SD card reader to copy the photos directly from your media cards
• Two USB 3.1 type A auxiliary power cord allowing you to connect to any current USB device in existence
• One HDM port that connects to displays, TVs, projectors, and other devices
You get all of that in a tiny little device that fits in the palm of your hand!
My Personal Favorite
The OWC Envoy Pro Mini is one little gadget that the husband will have to share with yours truly! This pocket-sized device is truly a game changer for anyone in need of storing images, videos, or data while traveling or in day-to-day life.
The husband quite often has to move large files while building new servers and systems for his clients, and this tiny little device has a 1 TB of storage and a transfer rate of up to 450 MB/s! Oh yes, big speed and big storage in a tiny but mighty package.
Stylish, light, and strong, the OWC Envoy Pro is exactly what we need while we are on the go—the husband because of work and me because I go photo crazy any time we are traveling and tend to run of storage space.
The OWC Envoy Pro mini provides desktop-class SSD performance in a go-anywhere design that takes up so little space that it can fit in your pocket.
Win it:
Just in time for the holidays, OWC is kindly offering one lucky Born 2 Impress reader, the chance to win a free Envoy Pro mini SSD and USB-C Travel Dock $160.00 value!
To enter this giveaway, please use the Giveaway Tools form below:
I think their Data Doubler looks pretty impressive. It would be a great thing for anyone who uses a Mac. I think if I won Vi would gift this to my brother. He definitely needs it.
I think ThunderBlade the fastest external drive would make a great gift for my husband. Data transfer speed is amazing,
capacities is up to 8TB. Also a custom-fit ballistic hard-shell case is very important for people who too often drop things .
The THUNDERBOLT 2 DOCK. It would be perfect for connecting the myriad of devices I use.
I like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCKS (12 Port). I would keep this for myself. It would be useful to have.
ThunderBlade! The name alone harkens me., but it provides a whole lot now. 8tb of storage and blazing speed transfers…WOW!
I really like the Thunderblade external drive that would speed up things in my personal office. I am all about efficiency and this product would help me achieve this goal.
I would like to have their USB-C DOCK. I would keep it for myself. Love the idea of 10 ports
I would love the MERCURY ELECTRA 6G for my computer. I built my computer myself a few years ago, but at this stage it’s starting to lag and could definitely use an update in pretty much every part of it!
I would love to try the MERCURY ELITE PRO MINI. I would keep it for myself.
I would like to try the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD (https://www.owcdigital.com/products/extreme-pro-6g-ssd) because it has very fast read and write speeds of 559 MB/s and 527MB/s, respectively. It also works right out of the box, and while it has been through a 7-stage testing process, it still comes with a 5-yeat warranty. It would be great to use for professional creative tasks.
I would like to get OWC’s ThunderBlade. I would us it to back up my desktop computer.
If I won, I would give this to my husband
MERCURY ACCELSIOR PRO Q sounds helpful, would try this.. and then gift it probably.
The USB Travel Dock would be amazing for on the go!!!
Another product I would love to try is the Thunderbolt 3 Dock. I am always looking for charging devices. This one seems so versatile and also convenient.
MERCURY HELIOS i like be great to have But i would give to my daughter she is 20 now and well she needs it more than i do she is traveling back and forth right now going to see her friend so id give it to her OWC Envoy Pro Mini i like cause if you work at one place and need stuff from there you can transfer what you need and take it on the go neat little device have a good thanksgiving and a merry christmas love to all
I would like the THUNDERBAY 6. If I won this I would keep it,always great to have.
Love to have a ThunderBlade external storage drive! My husband has collected over 40,000 family pictures during the last ten years, and he needs a secure place to store them. Also, he has a large digital movie and music collection that he needs to store as well. The Thunderblade would be great for him as a gift!
I’d like to try the Mercury on the go pro, we travel a lot and we’ve lost a few externals in the banging around.
I’d like to try they Mercury on the go pro, I travel a lot and we’ve lost more than one external in the banging around.
I’d like to try the Mercury on the go pro. I travel a lot and I’ve lost more than one external to the banging around. I’d like to try something more rugged.
I like the NEPTUNE 6G SSD!
I really like the MERCURY ELECTRA 6G. It would be great for storing my photos.
I like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCKS (12 Port). I would keep this for myself. Thanks
I would like the THUNDERBAY 6. I would like to keep it for our household to keep all our important data for work and home.
I would like the USB-C Travel Dock. I wouldn’t really want it for travel though. I am finding I am always needing more ports when I am working.
I’d like this for my mom. Also, for me the electra 3g!
I just bought a note 9 so I’d love that USB-C Travel dock. We all know it’s just a matter of time before the battery won’t last a full day, especially the way I use it.
I really like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DUAL DISPLAY ADAPTERS. I am a big multitasker and having different programs running at the same time on different monitors would make it easy for me to track down what I am doing. I know some people think it is too much but I know it is for my sanity.
I would keep the mercury on the go pro for myself! It would be handy to have.
I like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCK. I would gift it.
I would also like to have the Envoy Pro X optical drive. I would keep it for myself. Thanks for the chance to win!
I think the MERCURY ELITE PRO MINI would be a great gift for my brother. It would great to backup data and seems pretty quiet.
I like the Express 4M2
PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE
I like the Express 4M2 PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE. It sounds powerful enough for my needs without being too bulky.
I would love to try heir THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCK that is a 12 port. We do not have a whole lot of devices but my brother and his family sure do! He has two teens and himself and his wife. They are ALL connected. I Would gift this to them!
I like the On-The-Go-Pro. I would give it to my uncle who is constantly on the go and working from his car and remote places. This is the perfect way of having the extra storage he needs but in a travel size.
THe thunderblade looks awesome! i like how it’s small so i can carry it around with me esp since my mom keeps asking me for more photos of her grandkid.
I would also love to try Mercury On-the-Go. I think it would be a great help for me with extra storage. I like that it’s portable. I would keep this.
https://born2impress.com/2018-holiday-gift-guidI would also like to try Mercury On-The-Go Pro. It would help me a lot. I love that’s it’s portable. i would keep this for myself.e-portable-technology/
I would love one of the Thunderbolt 3 Dock. It would be so useful in my household. And I guess that would be a Christmas list item for myself.
I have a Mac. I could use the Data Doubler.
I would like to try the THUNDERBAY 6 STORAGE MAXIMIZER FOR MULTIMEDIA WORKLOADS. This would be really great storage for everything I need to save for the type of work I do. In addition, I feel it is important to store information externally in case something happens to your laptop which I have had happen in the past and then try to recover all of my information comes at a cost.
I like the MERCURY ELITE PRO MINI. I would hive it to my husband.
I would like to try the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCKS. I am not sure but I think I’d have to keep this one for myself!
the MERCURY EXTREME PRO would be nice for me. I can always use more and faster storage. thanks.
My son is in college majoring in Computer Science. He is writing code and could really use some more memory. I would like to give him https://www.owcdigital.com/products/memory.
The Thunderblade looks amazing! The name is so cool and it can hold so much media…it would make an amazing present for my boyfriend, so I think I would gift it. If I win this prize though, I will definitely keep it! It looks so cool and convenient, love the portability.
I like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCKS (12 Port). I would give this to my husband. He has so many electronics.
I like the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCKS (12 Port). I would give this to my hisband. he would love it.
I like the travel dock. Looks like it would be really handy on those overnight trips
THUNDERBAY 6
STORAGE MAXIMIZER FOR MULTIMEDIA WORKLOADS, looks like a good product for my sister’s work at home business.
I should see if she needs something like this
I also like the Drive Dock — USB-C.
It would be for my husband. They have some awesome products.
For me personally this product in the Giveaway meets my needs best.
Second would be th 3 dual display adapter for my brother in law and nephews for their jobs.
I like the ThunderBlade the fastest external drive would make a great gift for my son who uses this in his work! . Data transfer speed is amazing, Featuring a hard shell cover – it would be destruction proof!
I would like the Mercury Elite Pro mini for data storage/backup. I would give it to my son.
I would pick the USB-C travel dock. This would be very handy on the go especially during our vacations away from work. Thanks for the awesome blog post about this company. I never heard of it till reading this blog.
I would like to try the Thunderbolt SSD and the dock, I would love to store everything for the entire family to use on our network together. I love how you can connect a couple displays at the same time, I always keep two hooked up through my laptop.. I really would love to see how well and easily this works, Thank you, Mary
I need the USB-C cables because that is the type my phone takes and they are currently hard to find in stores around me!~ I would definitely like to gift this bundle if I won to my fiancé’s brother who is super into things like this!
I would love the thunderblade. I’d give it to my brother for Christmas.
I would really like to try the THUNDERBOLT 3 DOCK. I have so many different devices that this would be so useful!
I would like to try the MERCURY ELECTRA 6G. I would most likely gift this to my daughter for her devices.
I really like the USB-C TRAVEL DOCK. It is always a struggle for me when I travel to have enough power plugs for my devices. This would help a lot.
i like the thunderbolt docks and i would keep it
I would choose the Mercury on-the-go Pro. The shock-isolation technology provides more data protection which is important. I would get this for my nephew who is more Mac savvy than I.
I’d also love to try the Thunderbolt 3 Dock. All of the Thunderbolt products sound quick….from the cables to the docks. I would keep it for myself! All my chargers just disappear around here.
I would like to keep it. I would also like to try the EXPRESS 4M2.
I would really like the thunder blade external hard drive. It has amazing transfer speed and would be great for my work.
I also love the ENVOY PRO EX THUNDERBOLT 3. If I would win, I would keep this for myself. I have so much I need to transfer and keep often. This would be perfect for that.
I think I’d use the usb travel dock. I love to travel
I also love the OWC’s Thunderbolt 3 Dock. I would love to win this awesome prize and share it with my sisters
Thank You for the chance!
Big fan of being able to store all kinds of things on an external drive! The OWC Express 4M2 is ideal! I’d keep this prize for myself.
I love the Solid state drives like MERCURY EXTREME PRO 6G! The external storage hard drives are awesome!
I like the OWC SLIM OPTICAL Drive; provides impressive performance for those of us who need a plug-and-play optical drive to use for for backup, archiving and media. Has all the regular read/write functions of a portable disk in a compact unit !
Wow, I need a new external hard-drive and their 8TB one “EXPRESS 4M2 PINT-SIZED POWERHOUSE” sounds great for me! Thanks and God Bless!
I would also like to try the Thunderbolt 3 Docks. I would get them for myself. I always need to update my tech items and this would be great for me.
As a college student who works with digital content, I need serious storage. I think the MERCURY ELITE PRO DUAL MINI fits the bill. It’s storage capacity is 2TB SSD or 4TB HDD, and it’s small enough to toss into my bag and carry with me to college.