G-Technology 500GB G-DRIVE mobile SSD Durable Portable External Storage - USB-C (USB 3.1), Up to 560 MB/s - 0G06052-1, black

This drive arrived yesterday, on time. It's not much bigger than a credit card, extremely light. I was going to get a standard HD, but had a Lacie 4TB die within a few months. This drive is plug and play with my mac mini, just reformatted for encryption (took minutes, not hours). I selected this ssd because of its quality, materials used; aluminum internals for heat dispersion, been using constantly for 24 hours, still cool to touch, shock and waterproof to 1 meter. G-Tech originally a British company, so supporting European allies, and quality so high that Apple bought them. Excellent warranty, but not likely to fail since it's ssd. Super fast! All my movies look beautiful and play smoothly. Plugs into my mac mini Thunderbolt-3 ports, though only at usb-c speeds (i don't care; plays movies perfect, really fast data transfers). I'll never buy a standard drive again; only ssd from here on out, and will only be a G-tech or Lacie for full mac compatibility and quality.

Incredible drive! In the last 5 year's, I've gone through 7 Western Digital or Samsung external USB drives, but this is my first SSD. This is by far the best external drive I've ever owned.Pros:• Solid construction! Really well built.• Super fast! In some tests, it has outperformed MacBook Pro's internal SSD• Light weight and very small• Easy to set up and use• Very responsive to utilities and useCons• None . . . . I love this drive!Though to be fair, SSD's are still overpriced. They have not changed much in the last few years and that's not right..... None the less, this is a fantastic drive. I've had it for roughly 3 months and it's been flawless. Unlike my Wester Digitals which seem to have a 50% fail rate in the first year. Really, I've replaced so many under warranty I'm not sure how the company stays in business.

If you've ever read my review on the Gold 1TB Touro drive, also purchased here, you know how important portable hard drives have come to mean to me in such a short time. I became a student at a local music school to learn engineering and production, so I was given one drive by them, but quickly upgraded to the Touro for aesthetics, more space and, what I thought at the time, faster access speed. I extolled its virtues for a couple years because it delivered on all points...until it couldn't. Turns out an SSD instead of an RPM kinda drive was what I shoulda had all along. That eventually led me to this - double the space and none of the RPM mess that killed this and another one. Well, a year plus later and I'm happy to have this, even though I had to throw a few adaptors for this to work on my 2015 MBRP (which will change eventually). It hasn't let me down at all. Dependable, sturdy, looks pretty good (especially now that I've outgrown my champagne gold phase)...I highly recommend this, even in a sea of other brands with more storage or popularity among creatives and professionals of all industries. It's amazing. Period.

The new leader in affordable and portable SSD's. I have been doing a ton of video editing lately mainly digitizing and restoring old VHS tapes. The files I'm generating generally start out around 80gb's so while this purchase was somewhat of a whim, it was more necessity. I also recently purchased a Samsung T5 for the same purposes and it is as great as the dearth of reviews on it already state. It has a slightly smaller and lighter footprint than the G-Drive but head to head I'll take the G-Drive to get the extra ruggedized features. As far as speed, the G-Drive and T5 are blazing fast for external drives so no disappointment here that I didn't choose an internal SATA drive. The G-Drive specs out slightly faster than the T5 but in my usage there aren't any appreciable speed differences. The G-Drive and the T5 blow my mind on both 3.0 and 3.1 ports- I've never used any external drives as fast as these. I will definitely be purchasing another G-Drive SSD R because I prefer the ruggedized features and price-wise it's generally a better value (though not always) than the T5 on a per GB basis. I do not regret buying a T5, I believe in the end it will probably come down to price for most people when considering these two.Windows users must reformat the G-Drive as your machine will not recognize it. Unless you absolutely need cross platform use between MAC and PC just format the drive to NTFS as it is more stable than exFAT. There are very detailed OS specific reformatting instruction for NTFS and exFAT on the G Technologies support pages.*Purchased another one of these in the 1TB size and could not be more satisfied and confident with my storage/back up solution.

Absolute best portable hard drive I've ever had. Never spending my money on slow regular hard drives again and worrying about them falling and breaking or losing data. This thing is super small, lightweight, durable (waterproof, shockproof, crush-proof, etc) and super fast. My WD Passport drive would start off fast then get painfully slow and take hours just to copy a few gigabytes of photos. This new one writes/copies at several hundred megabytes per second and any transfer is done in a matter of minutes or less. I still use large regular drives for archiving photos, but this is what I use with my laptop for dumping photos and editing off of. Lightning fast, can't wait to buy more.

After 5 years it still works as secondary gaming laptop drive. Perfect!

These are great...have several sizes. Only four stars as they are expensive and the price has yet to drop. Should you get this one over others? Yes. Why; because the are very well built and all five I have have been flawless (and I use 'em)...and dang they are fast. F A S T.