Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome external ssd drive but I need a little more room for mine.

It’s a Christmas gift, it arrived fast with no issues to packaging. So far so good, will be wrapping for Christmas soon

If you want to use this for a Windows computer you have to reformat it using disk management. If you don’t do this the computer won’t recognize it. A Mac would recognize it immediately.

I went in to buy a 2nd Sandisk 500 gb external USB drive. When buying the first drive, I had initially wanted a 1tb but our store told me that they stock nothing over 500gb so I went with the smaller. Today I saw the display for the new G-Tech drives, read the description and decided to try it. It claimed to be a bit faster and ruggedized. When I get it home I plug it in and my computer tells me it is setting it up. When the setup notification window vanishes, the drive does not show up. I tried it on 2 other computers with the same result. After searching the net for a while I discover that these come formatted for Macs. These drives are kept in a locked case in the store making it impossible to read the box. Upon examining the box, I find in small print on the side that it works with Mac or PC, PC requires format. I probably couldn't have read that small print in the store anyway. I follow the instructions online to repartition and format the disk and indeed my computers recognize the drive. After spending quite a bit of time figuring out and resolving the initial problem I begin the task I originally set out to do, copy and transfer files from other computers. I first copied a 70 gb file of photos. The drive ran very slow. It seemed to stay around 27 MB/s through most of the transfer topping out at 40 and slowing to 0 at times. It performed at the same speeds reading or writing while transferring video, document and music files. This is not what one expects when paying a premium for an SSD. After completing my transfers I got out my Sandisk drive and started writing some of the same files to it. All of the files transferred at sustained rates between 150 MB/s and 200 MB/s. This drive so far has been a frustrating and disappointing experience.