The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with USB-C interface (10 Gbit/s) offers highly reliable, large storage capacity in a stylish premium design. The integrated 7,200rpm Ultrastar hard drive features read speeds of up to 280MB/s and write speeds of up to 280MB/s (22TB model), making it perfect for fast storage and playback of HD videos, photos, music, and other high-end content. The stackable anodised aluminium enclosure provides premium durability and anchor points for mounting to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment in production processes. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also includes customisable LED lighting with three brightness modes and is ready to use for Mac, with easy reformatting for Windows. Large capacity and fast backups allow you to back up and share more of your HD photos, videos, and other valuable content. With ultra-fast data transfers of up to 280MB/s read and 280MB/s write (22TB model) via the USB-C port (10Gbps), you can focus on what matters most. The built-in 7,200rpm enterprise-class Ultrastar hard drive ensures performance and reliability for demanding workloads and valuable content. The professional premium enclosure of the G-DRIVE desktop hard drive is a perfect match for high-end computers and is noticeably robust. Adjustable brightness allows you to turn off the LED lighting or choose between three brightness modes: Off, Standard, and Bright. The G-DRIVE is compatible with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine backups, with easy reformatting for Windows. Customise your workstation with the SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE, which features two anchor points on each side for attaching it to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment for your production process.
The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with USB-C interface (10 Gbit/s) offers highly reliable, large storage capacity in a stylish premium design. The integrated 7,200rpm Ultrastar hard drive features read speeds of up to 280MB/s and write speeds of up to 280MB/s (22TB model), making it perfect for fast storage and playback of HD videos, photos, music, and other high-end content. The stackable anodised aluminium enclosure provides premium durability and anchor points for mounting to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment in production processes. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also includes customisable LED lighting with three brightness modes and is ready to use for Mac, with easy reformatting for Windows. Large capacity and fast backups allow you to back up and share more of your HD photos, videos, and other valuable content. With ultra-fast data transfers of up to 280MB/s read and 280MB/s write (22TB model) via the USB-C port (10Gbps), you can focus on what matters most. The built-in 7,200rpm enterprise-class Ultrastar hard drive ensures performance and reliability for demanding workloads and valuable content. The professional premium enclosure of the G-DRIVE desktop hard drive is a perfect match for high-end computers and is noticeably robust. Adjustable brightness allows you to turn off the LED lighting or choose between three brightness modes: Off, Standard, and Bright. The G-DRIVE is compatible with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine backups, with easy reformatting for Windows. Customise your workstation with the SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE, which features two anchor points on each side for attaching it to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment for your production process.
The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with USB-C interface (10 Gbit/s) offers highly reliable, large storage capacity in a stylish premium design. The integrated 7,200rpm Ultrastar hard drive features read speeds of up to 280MB/s and write speeds of up to 280MB/s (22TB model), making it perfect for fast storage and playback of HD videos, photos, music, and other high-end content. The stackable anodised aluminium enclosure provides premium durability and anchor points for mounting to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment in production processes. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also includes customisable LED lighting with three brightness modes and is ready to use for Mac, with easy reformatting for Windows. Large capacity and fast backups allow you to back up and share more of your HD photos, videos, and other valuable content. With ultra-fast data transfers of up to 280MB/s read and 280MB/s write (22TB model) via the USB-C port (10Gbps), you can focus on what matters most. The built-in 7,200rpm enterprise-class Ultrastar hard drive ensures performance and reliability for demanding workloads and valuable content. The professional premium enclosure of the G-DRIVE desktop hard drive is a perfect match for high-end computers and is noticeably robust. Adjustable brightness allows you to turn off the LED lighting or choose between three brightness modes: Off, Standard, and Bright. The G-DRIVE is compatible with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine backups, with easy reformatting for Windows. Customise your workstation with the SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE, which features two anchor points on each side for attaching it to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment for your production process.
The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with USB-C interface (10 Gbit/s) offers highly reliable, large storage capacity in a stylish premium design. The integrated 7,200rpm Ultrastar hard drive features read speeds of up to 280MB/s and write speeds of up to 280MB/s (22TB model), making it perfect for fast storage and playback of HD videos, photos, music, and other high-end content. The stackable anodised aluminium enclosure provides premium durability and anchor points for mounting to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment in production processes. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also includes customisable LED lighting with three brightness modes and is ready to use for Mac, with easy reformatting for Windows. Large capacity and fast backups allow you to back up and share more of your HD photos, videos, and other valuable content. With ultra-fast data transfers of up to 280MB/s read and 280MB/s write (22TB model) via the USB-C port (10Gbps), you can focus on what matters most. The built-in 7,200rpm enterprise-class Ultrastar hard drive ensures performance and reliability for demanding workloads and valuable content. The professional premium enclosure of the G-DRIVE desktop hard drive is a perfect match for high-end computers and is noticeably robust. Adjustable brightness allows you to turn off the LED lighting or choose between three brightness modes: Off, Standard, and Bright. The G-DRIVE is compatible with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine backups, with easy reformatting for Windows. Customise your workstation with the SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE, which features two anchor points on each side for attaching it to a DIT cart, carrier plate, or other equipment for your production process.
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SanDisk Professional G-Drive 6TB Enterprise Class Desktop External Hard Drive, HDD up to 250 MB/s, USB-C (5Gbps), USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen 2), 7200 RPM
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SanDisk G-DRIVE external hard drive 6000 GB Stainless steel
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SanDisk Professional 6TB G-Drive Enterprise-Class External Desktop Hard Drive - 7200RPM Ultrastar HDD Inside, USB-C (10Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen 2, Mac Ready
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originally posted on westerndigital.com
Just received this thing. I already know its going to fail. Not from a hard drive perspective but from a power supply perspective. The power chord is cheap thing. Worse than a cheap burner phone. Super thin frail cord that is going to fray quickly. Not to mention the chord length is super short.This is not what I expect from a professional drive.Worst thing....the power chords from the previous Generation G-Tehcnology Pro drives dont work on this new stuff....really....why? Its as if you don't know your customers swap drive locations and dont want to have to play the game of what power chord goes with what.
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Was going great until it wasn't. This is my second Sandisk 12TB Drive. My previous one was used to back up files from 2022 - 2023. So naturally in May I bought another drive for 2024 - 2025. Less than 90 days in and 1.6 TB used the drive crapped out on me. Sad that they changed the design of the previous drive and the quality. There appears to be an issue with the power cord / source causing the drive to no longer power on - I've found other reviews stating the same issue. Luckily I have all of my files backed up on the cloud but still very annoying as I now need to return this and find a new drive to use.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
DO NOT BUY THIS HARD DRIVE!!!! They are the absolute worst. You WILL lose all of your data 100% guaranteed. Our production company has used G-Drives for 10+ years and not a single one failed in all of that time. As soon as SanDisk bought them out, 2 out of the 4 we purchased failed. The first one failed before we even used it and we had to send it back. The second one failed randomly out of nowhere and we lost our project file. Fortunately, all of our footage was backed up, but we hadn't backed up the project file yet because we have never needed to do that on a daily basis.The hard drive was sitting on my desk, working in the morning, had ejected it and worked off a different drive for the day, and then plugged it back in at the end of the day like normal and it ... MoreDO NOT BUY THIS HARD DRIVE!!!! They are the absolute worst. You WILL lose all of your data 100% guaranteed. Our production company has used G-Drives for 10+ years and not a single one failed in all of that time. As soon as SanDisk bought them out, 2 out of the 4 we purchased failed. The first one failed before we even used it and we had to send it back. The second one failed randomly out of nowhere and we lost our project file. Fortunately, all of our footage was backed up, but we hadn't backed up the project file yet because we have never needed to do that on a daily basis.The hard drive was sitting on my desk, working in the morning, had ejected it and worked off a different drive for the day, and then plugged it back in at the end of the day like normal and it was a goner. It wasn't hit or dropped, nothing. It wasn't spinning or showing up anymore.These are HORRIBLE. I already had a bad feeling about these new SanDisk drives from the moment we got them, they feel worse and they don't run as well and they make strange noises randomly. I might as well also add that they are way uglier than the original G-Drives as well. Sad to have G-Drives which worked for 10+ years to have to now switch to another company because of SanDisk's incompetence. Why would you change something that already was working perfectly? Seems like one big scam. I'll never buy from this company ever again. Why would you want to work off of a drive that can fail at any moment for no reason, and you lose an entire day's worth of work? Big L for SanDisk.And before SanDisk replies with their response of "Oh we have the best technology actually. You should submit a support ticket," we did contact customer support and it was hands down the worst I have ever witnessed in all of my life. This guy asked the most useless questions and literally even wanted a screenshot of a totally separate working drive that was unrelated, and then I kid you not, he legit asked, "How important is your data to you?" Obviously my data is important, guy. Then he said, "It seems we have done all the troubleshooting we can do. The hard drive seems to be non-functional" after doing absolutely zero troubleshooting.He then proceeded to say we can get a new hard drive but we have to send back the old one, and if we don't send it back first it's a charge of $20 extra. Like hello, we need the data still....It is infuriating losing an entire day's worth of work, but it is even more infuriating when it happens for no reason and there is no solution or support from the company whose fault it is.Thanks for absolutely nothing, SanDisk. Bring back the original G-Drives.
| Storage | 6 TB |
SanDisk Professional G-Drive 6TB Enterprise Class Desktop External Hard Drive, HDD up to 250 MB/s, USB-C (5Gbps), USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen 2), 7200 RPM
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SanDisk G-DRIVE external hard drive 6000 GB Stainless steel
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SanDisk Professional 6TB G-Drive Enterprise-Class External Desktop Hard Drive - 7200RPM Ultrastar HDD Inside, USB-C (10Gbps), USB 3.2 Gen 2, Mac Ready
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Just received this thing. I already know its going to fail. Not from a hard drive perspective but from a power supply perspective. The power chord is cheap thing. Worse than a cheap burner phone. Super thin frail cord that is going to fray quickly. Not to mention the chord length is super short.This is not what I expect from a professional drive.Worst thing....the power chords from the previous Generation G-Tehcnology Pro drives dont work on this new stuff....really....why? Its as if you don't know your customers swap drive locations and dont want to have to play the game of what power chord goes with what.
Was going great until it wasn't. This is my second Sandisk 12TB Drive. My previous one was used to back up files from 2022 - 2023. So naturally in May I bought another drive for 2024 - 2025. Less than 90 days in and 1.6 TB used the drive crapped out on me. Sad that they changed the design of the previous drive and the quality. There appears to be an issue with the power cord / source causing the drive to no longer power on - I've found other reviews stating the same issue. Luckily I have all of my files backed up on the cloud but still very annoying as I now need to return this and find a new drive to use.
DO NOT BUY THIS HARD DRIVE!!!! They are the absolute worst. You WILL lose all of your data 100% guaranteed. Our production company has used G-Drives for 10+ years and not a single one failed in all of that time. As soon as SanDisk bought them out, 2 out of the 4 we purchased failed. The first one failed before we even used it and we had to send it back. The second one failed randomly out of nowhere and we lost our project file. Fortunately, all of our footage was backed up, but we hadn't backed up the project file yet because we have never needed to do that on a daily basis.The hard drive was sitting on my desk, working in the morning, had ejected it and worked off a different drive for the day, and then plugged it back in at the end of the day like normal and it ... MoreDO NOT BUY THIS HARD DRIVE!!!! They are the absolute worst. You WILL lose all of your data 100% guaranteed. Our production company has used G-Drives for 10+ years and not a single one failed in all of that time. As soon as SanDisk bought them out, 2 out of the 4 we purchased failed. The first one failed before we even used it and we had to send it back. The second one failed randomly out of nowhere and we lost our project file. Fortunately, all of our footage was backed up, but we hadn't backed up the project file yet because we have never needed to do that on a daily basis.The hard drive was sitting on my desk, working in the morning, had ejected it and worked off a different drive for the day, and then plugged it back in at the end of the day like normal and it was a goner. It wasn't hit or dropped, nothing. It wasn't spinning or showing up anymore.These are HORRIBLE. I already had a bad feeling about these new SanDisk drives from the moment we got them, they feel worse and they don't run as well and they make strange noises randomly. I might as well also add that they are way uglier than the original G-Drives as well. Sad to have G-Drives which worked for 10+ years to have to now switch to another company because of SanDisk's incompetence. Why would you change something that already was working perfectly? Seems like one big scam. I'll never buy from this company ever again. Why would you want to work off of a drive that can fail at any moment for no reason, and you lose an entire day's worth of work? Big L for SanDisk.And before SanDisk replies with their response of "Oh we have the best technology actually. You should submit a support ticket," we did contact customer support and it was hands down the worst I have ever witnessed in all of my life. This guy asked the most useless questions and literally even wanted a screenshot of a totally separate working drive that was unrelated, and then I kid you not, he legit asked, "How important is your data to you?" Obviously my data is important, guy. Then he said, "It seems we have done all the troubleshooting we can do. The hard drive seems to be non-functional" after doing absolutely zero troubleshooting.He then proceeded to say we can get a new hard drive but we have to send back the old one, and if we don't send it back first it's a charge of $20 extra. Like hello, we need the data still....It is infuriating losing an entire day's worth of work, but it is even more infuriating when it happens for no reason and there is no solution or support from the company whose fault it is.Thanks for absolutely nothing, SanDisk. Bring back the original G-Drives.
I've owned this for 6 months now and its very disappointing. It constantly freezes up when I'm working with files from it. When that happens it freezes my entire file explorer for 10 seconds or more. Sometimes when it does that it freezes even the app I'm using to work with the file (Power Director being one). This is with a nice new HP Spectre PC. I have no issues with any of my gear, except when using this hard drive. This is also the loudest drive I've ever heard. I didn't know hard drives could be so loud and obnoxious until owning one of these. At first I thought its a bad unit but after doing some searching online it appears that's the standard with these things because there are countless reports of how loud it is. If you're someone doing a lot of work with ... MoreI've owned this for 6 months now and its very disappointing. It constantly freezes up when I'm working with files from it. When that happens it freezes my entire file explorer for 10 seconds or more. Sometimes when it does that it freezes even the app I'm using to work with the file (Power Director being one). This is with a nice new HP Spectre PC. I have no issues with any of my gear, except when using this hard drive. This is also the loudest drive I've ever heard. I didn't know hard drives could be so loud and obnoxious until owning one of these. At first I thought its a bad unit but after doing some searching online it appears that's the standard with these things because there are countless reports of how loud it is. If you're someone doing a lot of work with videos and video editing DO NOT GET THIS DRIVE! Yes you get a lot of storage space but if you need smooth operation as you work with file directly on the drive, this is not what you want because it constantly freezes/locks up during read. I recommend instead the WD NAS Drive. I've owned one of them for 6 months as well and have 0 issues out of it. Very smooth operation even when working with files directly from it. I'm now working to increase storage capacity of my NAS and make that my working drive, while this SanDisk G-Drive will become strictly backup (only because I'm out of the return window at Best Buy!).
I bought the 22Tb version of this drive, and after 1-2 yrs it failed on me. I brought it to a professional data recovery service, and they concluded: "There is a power failure on this drive. It doesn't spin up with your power supply or with a known good replacement power supply. No lights, no power on, no LED function...". The attempt fee to recover lost content is high. They said GDrive uses a new technology here "helium" (instead of air to reduce viscosity) in one of the compartments to achieve 22tb capacity, and this is not good for data recovery, bc that compartment is one of the routes to attempt recovery but they won't risk going there bc of risk of dealing with helium or not understanding how to do it safely. They recommended NAS drive solutions from Synology ... MoreI bought the 22Tb version of this drive, and after 1-2 yrs it failed on me. I brought it to a professional data recovery service, and they concluded: "There is a power failure on this drive. It doesn't spin up with your power supply or with a known good replacement power supply. No lights, no power on, no LED function...". The attempt fee to recover lost content is high. They said GDrive uses a new technology here "helium" (instead of air to reduce viscosity) in one of the compartments to achieve 22tb capacity, and this is not good for data recovery, bc that compartment is one of the routes to attempt recovery but they won't risk going there bc of risk of dealing with helium or not understanding how to do it safely. They recommended NAS drive solutions from Synology brand (better designed to work w Apple) with Raid 5-6 with redundancy as the safest ways to backup content as well as backblaze backups for online alternative. Filed warranty claim with Western digital, sent drive to their data recovery, what a surprise - they couldnt recover anything due to the poor management business decision to use new inferior recovery tech. Dealing with support for a replacement was pain. Had to keep calling to get updates from them. They were delayed for months after my replacement was approved (Incident: 230325-000243), and still did not mail it. I'm on the hold with them right now.
Easy to format in windows they even give you detailed instructions on how to do so. It’s using a ultrastar enterprise hard drive. I’m using this for my Plex server. I’m using 10 18gb ultrastar enterprise drives in my server in raidz and nvr from ubiquiti and never had an issue yet. Easy setup for Mac and windows very reliable. But I never put all my eggs into one basket. When one fails then I update how my customer service experience. Hopefully it’s excellent. It has always been in the past. Also about all the bad reviews I think are mostly people that don’t know what they’re doing and need a place to vent. It’s sad that people get gratification by leaving bad reviews. In my experience, they probably didn’t know what they were doing, or just relied on a single ... MoreEasy to format in windows they even give you detailed instructions on how to do so. It’s using a ultrastar enterprise hard drive. I’m using this for my Plex server. I’m using 10 18gb ultrastar enterprise drives in my server in raidz and nvr from ubiquiti and never had an issue yet. Easy setup for Mac and windows very reliable. But I never put all my eggs into one basket. When one fails then I update how my customer service experience. Hopefully it’s excellent. It has always been in the past. Also about all the bad reviews I think are mostly people that don’t know what they’re doing and need a place to vent. It’s sad that people get gratification by leaving bad reviews. In my experience, they probably didn’t know what they were doing, or just relied on a single drive. If a Files important to me, I have it on three different medias.
I hate it when hard drive reviews do not mention R/W speeds - it's the one thing we're all looking to learn lol. Blackmagic reports 263/264mb as APFS Volume via USBC-Thunderbolt port on back of Studio Display. this is very close to advertised speed, great to see and hope it sustains these speeds as drive fills up.this will be an on-going review, for there is a *lot of conflicting info on these particular drives;usage: pro photo and video passive storage/RAID relocation drive/redundancy.concern: there are a lot of nightmare stories online about this HD, several stating they have lost 10s of terabytes of information randomly with this newer breed of G-Drives : [goal: achieve usable read/write speeds throughout capacity of drive. my 22tb WD Book drives become ... MoreI hate it when hard drive reviews do not mention R/W speeds - it's the one thing we're all looking to learn lol. Blackmagic reports 263/264mb as APFS Volume via USBC-Thunderbolt port on back of Studio Display. this is very close to advertised speed, great to see and hope it sustains these speeds as drive fills up.this will be an on-going review, for there is a *lot of conflicting info on these particular drives;usage: pro photo and video passive storage/RAID relocation drive/redundancy.concern: there are a lot of nightmare stories online about this HD, several stating they have lost 10s of terabytes of information randomly with this newer breed of G-Drives : [goal: achieve usable read/write speeds throughout capacity of drive. my 22tb WD Book drives become pretty much useless after 75-80% capacity, and sometimes have to wait overnight to xfer 100gb to SSD when i recall something from the archives. this is not acceptable. Also, I've determined the USB WD Book drive to be the absolute source of horrid slowness in Lightroom; I never use this drive in the catalog, yet as it comes and goes from sleep state, my LR would seize up and become unusable for 15-20 sec at a time - this might not sound like a lot but it's the worst when you're trying to get images out the door. I've also seen similar impact in Finder, when clicking to an SD card or something (not the WD drive) system comes to a crawl and can be 30-60 for it to become alive again.After seeing a high-volume studio put the 22tb g-drives thru their paces the last two years without issue, i decided to integrate one of these to my workflow and see how it goes. Have read a LOT of heart-crushing reviews, time will tell if this was a good idea on my part. For now, this will not hold any critical data.Arrived today with quick shipping from BB (thank you!). The box could have been packaged better, never comforting hearing clunks when you pick up box from patio. But, ordering online from BB has been a real pleasure last couple years - perfect amount of notifications, no real curveballs, and Prime-like arrival times if i'm being honest (these particual drives on Amazon for my location indicated ~week to arrive fwiw). so keep up the great work BB!To address some of the key points a lot of reviews mention: (1) for me so far, the drive mounts nearly immediately. It's plugged into my Studio Display, when i dock my laptop, it was available within 4-5 seconds. This is great, and hope it continues. My WDs can take a minute or two - this isn't necessarily about the time, but more so the uncomfortable feeling while you wait for it to mount. (2) hard drive space is 2.8mb shy of 22tb; i read several times this drive occupied 1tb+ and could not allocate the full 22tb. This is APFS, straight out of the box; will be reformatting this, and will update accordingly if this changes. (3) the light on the front is not annoying to me.So far this drive is off to a good start; will throw 7-8tb at it overnight and see how it performs. One specifc thing i'm hoping to see with this upgrade, is the ability to scrub archived 4k footage with ease. I use preview/spacebar very often in finder, and my prev WD drive would choke every time with this command. 5-10 sec for playback is not okay when you're going thru a multi-day shoot. I just tested this on the ~500gb test folder and preview/playback was near immediate - this makes sense based on the r/w speeds reported, but more so hoping over time as this thing fills up that it stays responsive and usable.few observations: after xfer 500gb from SSD (this took 36 minutes), I deleted these files and got the dreaded pinwheel. Finder was unresponsive for about 30 sec while it thought about this command. little sluggish to empty the trash as well. dont love this ...drive is def audible; can hear the reading needle work on this drive. some folks are sensitive to this, and would not be unnoticable if this drive is centralized to your workstation. Can say for sustained xfer, it's prob 5-8x more quiet than my WD 22tb though, which is great.The drive does seem to sleep/wake in a similar pattern as my WD drives. Can see some sluggishness when initially clicking on it, but once awake this drive seems to cook along pretty well.Overall, hoping this works out. This seems to be one of the only solutions for single large external storage that is USB-C, and confirmed 7200rpm. Most externals out there are 5400rpm and really cramps up a working pro. It's really nice not having to utilize USB hub (and potential bottlenecking), and keep everything native USBC/Thunderbolt.Time will tell, but so far so good
This product is exceptionally poor. I would rate as ) stars. After using G-drives for personal and biomedical research use (at least $20,000 in purchases over the years), I bought this new drive. This drive mounts and unmounts poorly, gets corrupted easily, does not perform to specs, and repeatedly crashes. I tried working with WD to replace with something different even to pay the diffrerence in cost or do anything to get a different drive such as the new Project G-drive (since so many people find the SanDisk Professional G-Drive has problems), but they will not work with me. After having to reformat this drive multiple times and find a way to store data in the interim and then put it back, I will not take the chance on using the same drive. WD will not work with ... MoreThis product is exceptionally poor. I would rate as ) stars. After using G-drives for personal and biomedical research use (at least $20,000 in purchases over the years), I bought this new drive. This drive mounts and unmounts poorly, gets corrupted easily, does not perform to specs, and repeatedly crashes. I tried working with WD to replace with something different even to pay the diffrerence in cost or do anything to get a different drive such as the new Project G-drive (since so many people find the SanDisk Professional G-Drive has problems), but they will not work with me. After having to reformat this drive multiple times and find a way to store data in the interim and then put it back, I will not take the chance on using the same drive. WD will not work with me. So stay away from this drive and WD.
I'm here yet again hoping I can convince you not to buy these drives. When these drives fail, WD does nothing to acknowledge the massive issue that your data is gone. Sure they'll send me $300 to replace a drive, but nothing can be done for the video projects that represent several clients most recent projects (some still in the works) unless I decide to pay a data recovery company. I don't know why this drive is still for sale. When this many reviewers are saying they break, you'd think they'd fix their product, but no. I had one fail last year, so now I double back up everything which is wildly expensive. And now a client gave me footage to use on a project on one of these and sure enough, after a few weeks of it working fine, it now won't mount, isn't recognized ... MoreI'm here yet again hoping I can convince you not to buy these drives. When these drives fail, WD does nothing to acknowledge the massive issue that your data is gone. Sure they'll send me $300 to replace a drive, but nothing can be done for the video projects that represent several clients most recent projects (some still in the works) unless I decide to pay a data recovery company. I don't know why this drive is still for sale. When this many reviewers are saying they break, you'd think they'd fix their product, but no. I had one fail last year, so now I double back up everything which is wildly expensive. And now a client gave me footage to use on a project on one of these and sure enough, after a few weeks of it working fine, it now won't mount, isn't recognized in Disk Utility, and WD says it's broken.
Incredibly slow drive compared to the old USB 3 G-Drives. Takes hours to copy a few hundred GBs which the old drives can do in 30 mins or less. This redesign is a major step backwards and I won't be purchasing any more of these. Also the power button does nothing, the drive is constantly on no matter what, build quality now feels very cheap and plastic-y. Can't trust this drive due to terrible write speeds and build quality. Previous generations of G-Drive were rock solid and fast, this is cheap and slow.
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