Glyph BlackBox Plus (2TB)

great

These Glyph drives are the only external hard drives I trust to last. Quick and pretty quiet, they have never failed on me and this is the third one Ive purchased. The other two are still going strong after several years.

easy to use

Super disappointed in this drive. Worked great for about 7 months. I use a *lot* of portable drives for recording/content capture, and have had experience with a great number of rugged, drives over the years. I expected this one to be relatively bombproof: reliable for transporting in a bag and using on the go. ...But it didnt even survive being placed gently on a desktop, used for an hour, and then placed gently back into a cabinet for seven months. Id avoid this one at all costs.

I am a huge Glyph fan and have two old rack HDDs from back in the day for my studio. I bought this 4TB unit simply for time machine backups and it has worked flawlessly. That being said many of the features like SMART monitoring are not really available as advertised. Also there tech support is awful. Take forever to reply and don’t even answer my questions. If this were being used as a primary work drive I might’ve returned it, but since it’s for backup I’m not gonna bother.

DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY! I bought the 2TB Glyph blackbox plus from this seller and they sent me one that was broken. When I would insert it into my Mac or PC, they were unable to read it. They did refund me my money but it was frustrating trying to get it to work when i received it but then finding out that it had a defect. I had contacted Glyph support and told them that the blackbox plus would not stop making a beeping sound when plugged into the computer. They told me that the blackbox was defective and to return it to the seller. Also just as a side note, if you do decide on buying the blackbox plus, try the 1TB because its considerably faster than the 2TB model.

Good

Easy as drag and drop! For Mac.

DO NOT BUY! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY! I bought the 2TB Glyph blackbox plus from this seller and they sent me one that was broken. When I would insert it into my Mac or PC, they were unable to read it. They did refund me my money but it was frustrating trying to get it to work when i received it but then finding out that it had a defect. I had contacted Glyph support and told them that the blackbox plus would not stop making a beeping sound when plugged into the computer. They told me that the blackbox was defective and to return it to the seller. Also just as a side note, if you do decide on buying the blackbox plus, try the 1TB because its considerably faster than the 2TB model.

Bought this almost a year ago, and just had the unfortunate heart-stopping crash on my MacBook Pro hard drive, where I had to erase everything to factory settings. I was able to effectively restore all of my data from this device, since I’d been using time machine backup with it. Highly recommend for peace of mind!