Customer Ratings & Reviews

Pretty much crush proof! Looks professional and super fast speed take my money. O and it comes with 2 cables so if you dont have usb c ports your good to go. Has software on a partition so you can read it in windows or mac. If you sticking with just one or the other you could reformat it to better fit your os

Fast, compact and compatible with windows. Appears to be well built.

This blows some of my other externals out of the water in terms of copy speed. Worked with 2019 Mac Pro seamlessly. Overall Great value and seems very well built.

A few things you should know about the G-Technology G-DRIVE is that G-Technology is a Western Digital brand and that they design storage products with photographers and videographers needs in mind. No doubt most of us recognize the Western Digital name and are familiar with their great products. With transfer speeds as an important consideration for these photographers the G-Technology G-Drive is a fast USB 3.1 500GB external SSD hard drive. The specifications state that this drive features remarkable transfer speeds of up to 560MB/sec. Please note that the R in the name of this drive stands for rugged. This thing is wrapped in a rubberized and metal casing which is water and dust resistant. It is drop protected to 3 meters and is crush resistant up to 1000 pounds. I love the look of this drive. It looks cool with a grill look on the front which reveals a blue metallic layer. In pictures I thought this was a lighting effect when the drive was plugged in. It’s not but it still looks sweet. The drive is sleek and modern looking and measures a mere 3.74” x 1.97” x 0.57”. In the box you’ll find some manuals, a USB-C to USB-C cable, and USB-C to USB-A cable. The G-Drive is USB-C ready, USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 3 compatible. Great flexibility. You should also know that this drive isn’t automatically recognized by a pc like other drives you may have used. The G-Drive comes ready for use with a Mac. It doesn’t even show up in the Windows disk management utility. To use with a pc you need to first visit their website and download a file that they call the Windows Wizard. This program will quickly format the drive for use with Windows. I planned to use the G-Drive for large video files. As I load files to the drive it’s speed is apparent. Large files transfer super fast. Upon benchmarking the drive I saw transfer rates well over 400 MB/second. Fantastic for my purposes.

Out of the box the hard drive is ready for Mac, with a quick reformatting it was windows ready. (Reformatting is required for windows to access the full storage capacity of the hard drive.) The instructions to reformat the hard drive are included in a file on the drive, simply click the file and follow instructions and in less than a minute it was done. I was able to transfer 13gb of data in less than 4mins via usb 3.0, I could not believe how fast the transfer went! Viewing the files on drive on different computers went as expected, the drive functions like most plug in storage devices. The solid state drive is small and quite portable, I am please with this product so far.

I now have 3 laptops that have USB-C drives and I wanted a hard drive that could work with all of these devices. I also wanted SSD, all of my devices have those drives, so should the portable drive. This has everything I wanted all in a small form factor that fits easily in my bag. Their support is awesome as well, I called and within minutes they helped me to format the drive so it works on Windows and Mac OS. It works on my Chromebook as well. Transfers are super fast and the drive is whisper quiet. This is a perfect little portable hard drive, I love it.