Features:

  • A durable design with IP67 water/dust resistance, 3M drop tested*, and 1000lb crush resistance
  • Super-fast transfer rates up to 560MB/s
  • Latest-generation USB-C connectivity (USB 3.1 Gen 2)
  • Shock and vibration resistant solid state drive
  • With capacities up to 2TB in a small, light package (As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.)
  • An industry-leading 5-year limited manufacturer's warranty
WOW! Changed my workflow!

I'm a pro photographer and videographer and this works awesome! I edit my work 1/2 the year and allows me switch from my laptop to desktop while working on the same job. Examples: I shoot a wedding and create an adobe lightroom library for it on the drive and then cull my images anywhere I want and then plug the drive into my desktop and further edit the photos on my desktops big screen and faster processor. The drive itself is very small and is 1/2 the size of my hand...fits easily in my pants pocket! It's super durable as it's flash memory encased in a solid shell with breathable slats. It doesn't get hot, its silent and doesn't need additional AC. My only regret is that I didn't invest in the 2TB but the 1TB is fine for now as I finish up my editing. When I'm all done editing for my clients I then purchase inexpensive WD 8TB Drives for each year and archive them.

Best portable drive I've owned, and I've bought a lot!

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 use Cons • 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.

Best

Shipped from USA to Russia within only 12 days, very quickly. There are a lot of reviews that this SSD has extremely high speed, so I would say few words about design - the best on the market! I tried to choose between G-tech and Samsung, but design is much better, so I bought G-tech. Additional advantage is USB-C/USB and USB-C/USB-C high quality cables are included, so you don’t need to buy Apple USB-C/USB cable! A little saving, but nevertheless...

Small and fast

This is the smallest external hard drive I own. I use it on a MacBook Pro 2016 touchbar to edit videos in FCPX. It’s crazy fast. So much better than platter drives.

Best external SSD money can buy at the moment

I have been using this as a MacOS boot drive for a while now and it just tears through everything I've thrown at it with ease. The speeds are pretty ridiculous. I'll have to use a benchmark at some point and get some solid numbers. I was a little wary at the price but seeing it's performance those fears were wiped away almost instantly. I wish I could afford a couple of the 2tb versions.

Fast and reliable, compatible with 2017 iMac

This is my second purchase of the same product. Wish they were not as costly but the rapid reading and writing time makes them great for storage of photos and videos. I use them with a and iMac 27 inch computer and there have been no problems.

Portable SSD's new leader in price to performance ratio (G-Drive vs. T5) WINDOWS USERS MUST REFORMAT THIS DRIVE

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.

Love the speed increase to my iMac!

Installed in in a 2017 iMac 5K that came with a 1 TB Fusion drive. Before this machine I had a 2009 iMac in wich I had installed an internal SSD and that machine was faster than my new iMac. After adding memory, checking and double checkin all the settings I could think of to speed it up I decided to try this external SSD. Wow,it cut my start up time inhalf but best of all, all the other tasks are easily 5 times faster now.

Cheaper than Apple Store!

They were selling this same unit at the Apple Store for much more. Ordered it through Amazon next day for a helluva lot less. Works so well, and has super fast data transfer to my 2018 15" MacBook Pro. I use it for my FCPX drive and it's so much cheaper than getting a bigger drive for these newer MacBook Pros. Only downside is having the drive hanging off the side. Oh well.

terrific product

I can't speak to durability. It's attached to my computer and it always stays there untouched. Really fast drive. I have a 512GB internal SSD that contains only OS and applications. This external drive contains all my image files. Until new technology comes along, this is the best configuration I've ever used. Love this drive.

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