SanDisk Professional 4TB G-DRIVE PRO - Enterprise-Class Desktop Hard Drive, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, 7200RPM Ultrastar Drive Inside - SDPH51J-004T-NBAAD

Storage capacity and the small size is perfect.

I work as a professional filmmaker, and G-Drives have always been my go-to when needed to edit off a drive (backups are handled by slower ones). Thunderbolt is speedy as always, and handling workflows with cinema camera footage doesnt clog it up one bit. A solid recommendation for anyone on the fence.

WARNING!: This drive is not pro. Not in 2020, 2021, or 2022. It is advertised as a Thunderbolt 3 drive. However, it does not meet that standards transfer speed (40Gb/s). Instead, its actually a Thunderbolt 2 drive (20GB/s) transfer with a T3 cable. So half the transfer speed on a 12TB drive. Pro in 2020, 2021, 2022 is 40GB/s. We made the unfortunate discovery on a shoot when it was too late to get any alternates. The transfers were going alarmingly slow, even for HD footage. Upon investigating, the fine print on the box revealed the issue. Ive spoken multiple times with GTech/Western Digital/Sandisk. They claim the drive functions according to their specification. However, it is not what anyone would expect from a drive advertised as Thunderbolt 3. Again, Thunderbolt 3 is 40Gb/s. So is Pro. Furthermore, the drive is having issues. It repeatedly puts itself to sleep though system preferences are set to never do so. Anyone who edits understands how slow and harmful that can be.

Very much like the Oyen Novus, its not a friendly pnp device as they state. Its cable dependent, I experienced thermal issues with it and frankly, never did get it to work as stated.

I bought this SanDisk Professional to replace a failing drive. I was able to copy the failing drives data to it and Ive been very pleased with its responsiveness and performance so far. Its quiet and quick, just what I needed for photo and video editing!

SanDisk = Quaity

Absolutely love these. Buy them all the time.

It arrived on November 16th and I returned it on November 16th. I used the USB connection to interface the drive with my new laptop. Notably, my brand new laptop could not recognize the 12T drive in my laptops device manager. I disconnected and reconnected it multiple times with no success. Called a friend of mine who works in the security division at Microsoft and he suggested that I return it. As such, I did! He has seen this many times with external hard drives. He advised a different device. So it may work for some folks, but not for me! Oh well!

G drive is good overall but this one came having noise and crackling sound so returned!

Love the speed and quietness of this hard drive