Silicon Power 1TB Rugged Portable External Hard Drive Armor A80, Waterproof USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, Xbox and PS4, Blue

Well...I dont know if I can officially call it an upgrade, being that I own a few Seagate drives and have never had a problem with any of them. But this drive is neck and neck with my Seagates. I love the color. Its the same color as my old motorcycle. Looks great along side a Macbook (which also was the same color of my bike....ok....ill stop now.) I was worried this drive would be a bit too heft because of the added real estate for the additional hidden wire, but it really is not a problem. And its also not as thick as I thought it was going to be. It is still bigger than my GoFlex, but since it has about 650 more GB than my GoFlex, I wont complain. Also, the hidden wire seems to stick out a little bit. I can never seem to get it fully hidden in the wire storage area, but its not enough to be annoying. I am very careful with my electronics, so I dont plan on dropping or spilling anything on it, so I didnt really care so much for the military specs. More so than anything, I needed a 1TB drive that was small, and I loved the fact that it had the integrated wire that can be stored. I was going to go with the

Ive had this hard drive for a while now, and after many drops (a few from 3-4 ft on hardwood floor, and one from 5 ft on hard carpet), it still works perfectly! Im a bit clumsy, so when I was struggling to open the box, the hard drive flew out of the packaging and hit my hardwood floor... it even left a mark lol. Ive also had it fall from my kotatsu a couple times (which is not very high, and the tatami mats arent much danger to it lol) while plugged in and in use, but no harm done at all. I do, however, wish for improvements, like faster speed, higher capacity, and a handy usb cable that isnt annoying to use. Other than those things, this is the best hard drive Ive ever bought!

There is only one word that comes to mind every time that I see this hard drive, Indestructible. The entire shell is one piece of thick aluminum, which has superior strength against drops, freezing, heat, and water. The port has a durable rubber flap that is a little wider than the port so that that stays snugly closed, which can make it a little difficult to open especially if you dont have fingernails. The side panels also have a thick rubber seal around them; I am sure it will have no problem taking a dip as long as you dont go scuba diving with it. Since it is aluminum it disperses heat and cold around the hard drive instead of through, also the aluminum can withstand a drop from around 6 feet safely, any more and you take a risk, but there should not be any problems from higher. Inside the tough outer case there are rubber/foam shock bumpers around the hard drive on all sides that shift and lessen the shock of a drop. The hard drive itself is a disk/platter type; what is different in this one from the one in your laptop is that when you safely disconnect it from a computer the disk reader and disks lock themselves automatically so that they do not move and cause damage when shock is experienced. The maker of the hard drive is Samsung, but may change from year to year as some other reviewers have stated. It comes formatted in FAT32 and will need to be formatted in NTFS if you plan on storing files bigger than 4GB. System tool work relatively well and can be downloaded for free from their website. Overall this hard drive is one that will surely last you for years to come and can be counted on no matter what life or the environment throws at you,

Excellent portable hard drives make your memory feel safer and more accessible. This super fast hard drive has made me feel securely backed up fro three years now, and continues to be fast and dependable. Finding videos of people testing this tank gave me even more assurance that my photos, files, games, movies, music, and backups werent going anywhere. The portable cable built in is a really nice touch, although I usually use the longer one because the USB port on my Surface 2 is off the table. I cringe to see all of my friends buy Samsung, Toshiba, Dell, etc. hard drives because they pay more, and get less. (and the often drop them, usually resulting in data loss) Summary: dont consider anything less than this powerful, portable, and protective drive.

After looking at all the external hard drives available for under $100 I settled on this one. The selling points to me were waterproof, shock proof and the 3 year warranty (Toshiba, WD, Seagate all have 1 year warranty on portable external hard drives). After receiving this and taking it out of the package it is very apparent that it is a quality external hard drive and built to last. I quickly hooked it up to my pc, formatted it to ntfs (it comes formatted as fat32) and added the partitions I wanted to separate my backups on multiple PCs. Everything worked as expected. In addition to durability, this external hard drive came with two cables....the 3 one that stores in the side of the hard drive case and a longer 2 foot cable to use at home. I used both and they worked as expected. When I am in need of another external hard drive I will look to Silicon power first.

Works great for backing up my PC. So much stuff these days on your PC.. pictures, vital docs, email.. etc... its nearly a MUST to have some kind of safe guard and i wanted something that was very hardened to backup my files. I know some people are all about the cloud storage etc.. but i just like to have something i can put in my hand and this does it. The short USB3 cable is very short so make sure you can use it on a USB3 port and lay it flat as its a little heavy you dont want it to hang off that cord. It does come with a longer cord but ive never needed to use it i stick with the short thick cord that is stored in its side like in the picture.

Best durable, waterproof, and shock/drop proof hard drive out there. That is why i purchased it. This is my second Silicon Power hard drive. And they are virtually indestructible. Coolest feature i that it comes with a short little cable, that attaches right to the side. so when traveling with it you always have a connection right with the hard drive. It also come with a longer cable too. Get this hard drive. Ive used SP hard drives for years. Their customer service is great, and they provide excellent product warrantys. Just make sure you register your product after you purchase it.

There are a couple of nice things about this unit. First is that it is a single connector drive. Not tried it in a USB2 plug, but with USB3, it works really well. Transfer speeds (moved 80 gigs initially of everthings from small jpgs to large video files) with a Windows 8 maching. Speeds varied from just over 1 gig per second (for small jpgs) to a small amount over 80 gigs/second for the larger video files. 15 meg raw photo files were around 50 meg/second. Not exactly sure what the limiting factor is here, but I have a really fast USB pen drive that records the exact same speeds, so I suspect the bottleneck is not the hard drive, but something in the computer. Nice that you get two USB cables (one short that stores with the unit and one longer one). Dont know how long it will last, but is very nice right now.