Customer Ratings & Reviews

As a photographer and Videographer that shoots in the field, it is ever important to me to have reliable fast data transfer and storage. With SSD drives becoming more user accessible, now is the time to upgrade your storage and never look back. The speed at which you can read and write to SSD’s over the older spinning hard drives is of no comparison. This drive boasts transfer speeds up to 560MB/s. Gone are the days of waiting for older hard drives to spin up. With SSD’s your editing becomes an extension of your creativity, not a hindrance. I am using this drive to edit 4K footage in Premiere Pro. Granted I use proxies to make scrubbing buttery smooth, the playback and speed of this external drive is the same as editing from an internal SSD. This drive utilizes the USB C interface and plugs into my laptops USB C port natively, making it VERY fast and extremely efficient. It also comes with the older USB 3.0/2.0 cable in case your system does not include a USB C port. Reliability is also extremely important when choosing storage. G-Drive (owned and operated by Western Digital) has garnered a great reputation and have become a go-to drive for my professional and personal needs. Size and weight are also important when lugging around gear and the G-Drive external SSD literally fits the bill in this category. Measuring roughly 2x4 inches and weighing only 90 grams, this drive is the ultimate in portability. You won’t even know it’s in your case, so be sure to double check before you leave! Build quality is top notch. With IP67 dust and water resistance, this is yet another reason to choose this product if you shoot in the field. Very tough indeed. One thing to note is that if you plan on using this drive on a Windows 10 machine, you will need to download the free “G-Technology Format Wizard” software from their website to format the drive before initial use. This is a straightforward and very easy process. All in all, I can’t say enough good things about the G-Drive external SSD. It’s small, light, rugged, FAST, and reliable. Not to mention extremely affordable. All the best features are covered here. It’s a 100% no brainer.

This is an extremely portable drive that is very fast as well as small and light weight, yet with a great solid build quality. It is perfect for me to transfer files from my main system and especially on the go. The combination of SSD and USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 is the perfect match. You get the stability and durability of solid state and the fantastic transfer speeds that USB-C offers. I was generally seeing a tick under the advertised 560MB/sec, but speeds were easily 4x to 5x faster than the speeds I was getting with my old drive. I love the real-world gains you can see and feel. Further, the drive itself is just well-built. Despite being light, it has a solid feel and the aluminum core provides a great deal of protection. It is IP67 water and dust resistant, has 3-meter drop protection and a 1000lb crushproof rating. Lastly, if an issue does arise, it comes with a 5 year warranty from G-Technology. Ultimately, I like everything about this drive. Small. Light. Solid. Very Fast. Dependable. Great Warranty. It protects my data and gives me back time with real-world speed gains. When you put all of that together you get a great drive and I think a great value.

PROS: - It’s a really nice portable size. You can tell it’s a tiny bit bigger than other portable SSD drives but that is because of it’s protective layer. - Speaking of that, I love how its made to be water/dust/shock resistant. When buying a portable drive, you want it to protect your files and it really adds that extra layer. - After set up, this SSD is a breeze! It is very fast and efficient to use. CONS: - This device was not a simple plug in and use. I had to whipe the drive and then set it up within my computer’s settings. G-Drive provided easy enough directions on their website but I’d imagine some less tech savvy people it would be difficult. BOTTOM LINE: You will be very happy with this purchase. After set up, this drive is a great SSD to protect your files at home or on the go.

Pros: * Very fast performance. * SSD so no moving parts and very reliable. * Rugged enough to toss in a bag and not worry. Cons: * Compact but not tiny. * Pre-formatted for Mac only. This compact, rugged external drive provides external storage for on-the-go use. Being an SSD rather than a hard drive, there are no moving parts. You can freely toss it in a bag and not worry about the safety of your data on the drive. It’s like an elephant (legendary memory and strong) in a compact frame. The drive comes with two USB-C stubby cables; both with USB-C on one end for the drive and the other end is either USB-A or C depending on what you need to connect it to. My only complaint on the drive is that it was pre-formatted for Mac only. I had to reformat it for use on both Mac and Windows platforms, but that’s a minor issue. 0.5TB in a compact, fast and rugged little box. Very nice!

The G-Drive is fast and very portable. I uses it to install programs and games and it run fast like internal SSD. It also come with USB Type C to A and Type C to C.

I normally buy SanDisk or Western Digital. Both good, however my dad gave me one of his old G-Technology HDDs and it was still pretty fast so I wanted to give this a try and I wasn’t disappointed at all. This thing is very fast and very reliable. It’s small like most mobile SSDs but very well built. Perfect for my quick turnaround projects. I can shoot, dump my footage and edit right on the spot and not have to worry about speed.

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

I purchased this item to use as a backup drive for my laptop's internal. The speed of this drive is incredible! I backed-up my system in record time. Prior to this purchase, I've used SanDisk SSD -- which have also been great. I've used WD's USB HDD for external storage and also backups in the past. Those work just fine when I have a few hours for the backup to complete. But, of course, the SanDisk SSD's are faster than the HDD's and complete in less than two hours. However, the speed of this G-Drive was even faster than the other SSD's I've used. My backup's are completing in nearly an hour with this baby!! For my needs, time and speed are a critical part of my work flow. The G-Drive Mobile definitely addresses those needs. Additionally, the unit is really solid. Not that I'd try it, but this drives feel like it would survive a few drops and even an accidental run-over by the car (as if that would ever happen! -- but should it occur, I'm fairly confident that the drive would survive). This is not the first G-Drive product I've purchased. I have a couple others in my stash that I've used over the years. Even though the drives are a little more expensive than competitor's products, they continue to produce solid products with very respectable specs and results. My thanks go to G-Drive for making such a great product -- and also a BIG thanks to Best Buy for carrying / stocking such quality products for the consumer to choose from. Long story short... I will be purchasing at least two more of these drives in the next couple weeks.

This has been an awesome solution for my portable storage needs. I have to back up employee files and clean a computer up before setting up the work station for a. New employee. This drive is Night and day faster than the more expensive portable drive I was currently using. I also had to have Independant power for the other drive where this one does not, making it a faster, cheaper, and truly portable option!

Great Product. Looks Nice. Fast. Small. Meets my needs.

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

I bought this just for emergency purposes if I ever need to backup or transfer data quickly. I have the larger version that I use on a regular basis as a backup drive and love it. The price that I purchased this for was a steal!

I purchased this drive to back up finished photos and photographic works in progress, I can't believe how fast this drive is, especially when thinking about the speed of the external conventional drive I have used in the past. Its compact size is a big plus as well.

It's very durable and super fast. Could be considered a bit steep in cost compared to other options but I don't mind because it's resistant to water and dust, which is nice for a lot or reasons when traveling.

With my hobbie being taking a lot of wildlife, I'm outside a lot and needed something that was a little tough to make me feel better about getting my shots home. This little drive is quick and so far seems to fit the bill for what I wanted.

Quick transfer speeds and very compact. Build is ok, I thought it would feel more rugged but it’s fine so far.

Great, absolutely the fastest ssd so far Smallest external Ssd

I love the SSD G-Drives! Lightning fast and super durable. Always am buying more!

Super fast. Very reliable. Able to edit video in Premiere while mobile with great playback. Highly recommend.

Fantastic drive performance. Excellent transfer rates, provided your system supports USB 3.1 Gen 2. I use this to transfer massive amounts of image files from a raspberryPi4 imaging computer setup to my Win10Pro desktop for image processing. I was using a USB thumbdrive previously, and not only did the storage capacity stop being an issue, but easily cut 20 minutes off of data transfer.