This G-Drive SSD is about 20% more costly than the competition to begin with...but when you consider it comes with only a 2 ½ inch cable, forcing many to purchase an additional USB C cable, it become unjustifiably high priced.

The alleged durability (drop, spill, etc) of the G-Drive SSD does warrant a premium over other SSD enclosures that don't have such assurances. (Most will have similar performance - using off the shelf components that the supplier doesn't manufacture themselves.) However a two and a half inch cable is only suitable for certain laptops in certain situations... it all depends on where the USB / USB-C ports are and the table you're trying to work on. If you happen to have a few inches of table (or airplane tray table) space next to the port, great. If you don't - or you are using a desktop machine such as an iMac ... the included cable will not work at all. Competitors such as Sabrent, who make lightening fast USB 3.1 SSDs, supply a reasonably long cable, all for a much lower price.

love it

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.

If you've ever read my review on the Gold 1TB Touro drive, also purchased here, you know how important portable hard drives have come to mean to me in such a short time. I became a student at a local music school to learn engineering and production, so I was given one drive by them, but quickly upgraded to the Touro for aesthetics, more space and, what I thought at the time, faster access speed. I extolled its virtues for a couple years because it delivered on all points...until it couldn't. Turns out an SSD instead of an RPM kinda drive was what I shoulda had all along. That eventually led me to this - double the space and none of the RPM mess that killed this and another one. Well, a year plus later and I'm happy to have this, even though I had to throw a few adaptors for this to work on my 2015 MBRP (which will change eventually). It hasn't let me down at all. Dependable, sturdy, looks pretty good (especially now that I've outgrown my champagne gold phase)...I highly recommend this, even in a sea of other brands with more storage or popularity among creatives and professionals of all industries. It's amazing. Period.

like the brand and been using it for over a year now .. fast and durable so far