Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great compact external drive. I bought to replace another external drive that went bad in a year. This one has been holding up, small and compact and durable. It starts up every time I use it.

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

Works great. Cord is a bit short, so I got a longer one

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

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

Great, absolutely the fastest ssd so far Smallest external Ssd

Portable. Lightweight. Operate just as perfect as the professional grade.

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.

The performance has been fast and reliable. The case is rugged. I think it’s a great drive.

Great compact ssd, so compact and portable. Perfect for a photographer.

Very durable and fast! Highly recommend! Don’t pass up on this one!

Its fast small and has an incredible amount of memory for the go

Works well after approximately 1 month. Nice compact unit.

This is super fast and works great with Mac and windows

Nice external hard drive and small form factor helps with storing in a camera bag or laptop bag. Even works with PS5 if you want to move some games from you library to an external storage.

An excellent product which I am using as the primary hard drive for my limited memory laptop. It is the perfect size, sitting unnoticed on my desk /workspace. Good investment.

I bought this to move my music collection from an older bulky HDD, and so far its been great. I've only had it for about a month but hopefully it lasts a long time.

I’m using this solid-state drive to run my macOS system completely off this drive as it makes my older iMac run way quicker smooth everything opens super fast the hard drive is well-made

I am impressed, the speed at which I can save, copy and paste is just great. I upgraded from an G-Drive to an this SSD. Worth every dollar!

I have several flash drives that I carry off and on depending on what I am working on: a Mushkin 32GB USB 3.0 and a Sandisk 64GB combo USB 3/3.1. The Mushkin is pretty old but has held up very well and has proven itself to be very fast and reliable. After using the G-Drive R-series, I now have a drive with enough capacity to really fit some of the projects I work on and yet it is still nice and small. Maybe not as small as a pocket flash drive, but with its speed and capacity, I may find myself sticking it in once in a while! When I ran Crystal Disk Mark 6, I was impressed by the speed of the drive. It performed very well compared to the SSD in my Dell G7 laptop, getting very close in speed on a couple of the tests. I did some real-world testing before starting to use it as well, backing up a folder of pictures (996MB) in only 11 seconds. In other uses, it has proven to be very fast in both large and small file transfers. When I first took it out of the box, I tried it on three machines and could not see it in Windows file explorer or my Chromebook's file browser. After doing a little digging online, I found out that they have designed it to work out of the box for Mac machines, but it needs to re-partitioned to work with Windows. I found that kind of odd, since it is marketed as "rugged, super-fast portable storage" and lists both Mac and Windows compatibility. After looking closer, I did find on the side of the box that under the Windows compatibility it does have "w/ reformat" in very small writing. I was able to talk with one of the techs from Western Digital and she did confirm that it does need to be set up if it is going to be used on a Windows machine. No big deal, if you have set up new drives before, it is a simple process. Just make sure you pick the right drive before deleting and creating the partitions! I am very happy with the drive and will be using it for anything that needs speed or capacity in the future. With a five-year warranty and since Western Digital is behind it, I expect it to last me at least as long as my trusty Mushkin has! They also offer even larger drives if needed, it is really nice to see these kind of drives finally becoming reality in this compact package.