Transcend1TB 2.5 inch USB 3.0 Military-Grade Shock Resistance Portable Hard Drive

This is an excellent portable storage device that is everything you could need in this day and age.The hard drive is extremely durable and can withstand many knocks and scratches compared to other brands. You can certainly be a bit less careful with this. Through the USB 3 connector, it provides amazing speeds, transferring large files very quickly. For its capacity, the hard drive is very small and is easily portable wherever you are going. I personally use this hard drive in both Macs and PCs and it is easily formatted to exFAT to facilitate this. I can now just plug and play in both PCs and Macs, making the whole process so much easier. The version I have is the green and black one and I have to say it is very appealing to the eye. It certainly stands out from the crowd.The only flaw I can see with this device is the USB cable. It works extremely well but it is quite short and comes in the box as a coil. Due to its material, the cable takes quite a while to straighten out meaning that for a few months, you will have to position the hard drive carefully so that you can actually plug the cable in. This is obviously only a minor criticism for this excellent device.All in all, this hard-drive is brilliant for any user, whether they are doing very taxing video editing or music production or if they are just saving documents and photos. It is a great addition to anyone's collection of tech and at a great price point, I would thoroughly recommend.

Overall, no problems at all, next day delivery, product was in original packaging, exactly as describe. At first i thought by "this doesn't come with the case" it mean the rubber outside of the product itself, however, just to clarify you get exactly whats in the pictures. I thought 1TB would be too much but its worth it for the price and did come in handy. Works perfect on my Macbook Pro. Just plugged it in and worked straight away, no issues using it on other computers and windows as well as my laptop. Product itself looks great, stylish good small size and is packaged nicely. Durable, not had any problems with dropping it and no damage at all.Overall benefits:- Works for Mac and windows- Durable shock proof design- Stylish smart appearance- Good size- Easy to use and great storagedisadvantages:- I'm yet to think of any, just I'd got this for Uni and 1TB is handier than smaller sizes (something i was skeptical about) so go for the 1TB

I had pondered on buying one of these for a couple of days and so when i saw it on offer at a reduced price i ordered it and it has proved to be one of the best buys i have made, it is compact and lightweight with a nice non slip rubberised cover that also doubles as a shock protector, this is in addition to the plastic shockcase and the drive suspension system that makes this a very durable driveit was up and running as soon as Windows installed the driver, i then formatted it to NTFS and it was ready to use, the supplied Transcend formatting tool took only seconds to complete and i was then left with 937 GB of free space to play withi created a 50GB encrypted container which again was very straight forward,then in order to try out the backup utility i made a folder on the drive and backed up my D:/ to it, this took no time at all and i now have a full backup of all my stored software and files etcthis is a very good drive that comes with a suite of free utilities to backup, encrypt ,recover files etc, it takes up very little space and is totally quiet in operation, i cannot recommend this drive highly enough and i would certainly buy it again.

Obviously it has a lot of storage; It easily stores reams of data from dvd and music and writing, as well as having enough room to backup my Macbook Pro. It is tough and sturdy as described in the name, able to withstand punishment, and has plenty of room left to use even after a recent clearout meant taking two or three days to upload information onto it.However, using it on a Mac was initially confusing and frustrating. The hard drive is not configured to Mac's and so needs to be wiped by the Mac itself (I used it as a backup for the Mac, meaning the Mac reformatted it) before it can be used as a storage unit.Worse was the fact that the instructions were very unhelpful on this. There was no mention of having to configure the drive or in fact that there would be any problem or issues with a Mac computer at all, which only delayed the process of backing up at an important time. I spent a good hour or two looking for instructions on this problem with no success. It was in the end a simple fix but lack of instructions was a massive frustration.This though is a pretty minor quibble; if I had used the backup system in the first place then there would have been no problems with the storage. As with any big terabyte drive it should still be used carefully in spite of it's boasts. But obviously having a terabyte backup drive which is protected against damage can be a huge deal. Big hard drives can be known to break with a simple drop to the floor, losing a lot of data as a result. Having something secure like that isn't just very comforting, it edges the drive ahead of competitors. It makes the data secure in itself.Hard drives will always have problems. Such a large amount of data is expensive and is easily lost even by well protected hard drives such as this, as various reviews below might testify. Still, that extra layer of protection is vital in situations where otherwise the hard drive might be damaged or the data destroyed; something which is vital to many companies.It gets a four out of ten for bring the storage space required, for being sturdy and for it's storage. It loses a point because it was niggly to install and get working in the first place, and had unhelpful instructions to exacerbate this problem. For someone new to a hard drive this was an unwelcome start, but it does what it says on the tin, which is more then forgivable.