Reviews for G-Tech 500GB G-DRIVE USB 3.0 Slim Portable Hard Drive

don't buy this device. it is highly unreliable. this is the second G-drive slim that i've purchased. i love the design but both of them mysteriously stopped working within a year. i've just come back from 3 months in india and used the device to store all my photos and now i can't access any of them. the drive turns on and spins but take AGES to try complete the simplest task and then doesn't do anything. if anyone has any ideas about how to get the images off the drive i'm be very grateful.

3 of 3 people found this useful

I'm not sure what you guys do to your drives to make them fail in five minutes or less. They aren't designed to be thrown against the wall, dropped on the floor, or driven over with your Yugo.

This is the fourth of four G-Tech drives (the others are FW800 and USB) and I have all four up and running with various machines. Never had so much as a hiccup.

This particular drive is extraordinarily light and thin, making it the perfect companion to the MacBook Air. I put my iTunes library on mine, saving the SSD space for work-related files and apps.

If you're looking for a top-notch USB 3.0 drive, I don't think you can do any better than this little jewel.

9 of 14 people found this useful

I bought this drive to transfer over my entire old lap top before buying a new one. It had all my pictures, music and files from the last 5 years. After less than 6 months of having it, the thing died for no apparent reason. I did not have a back up of this drive yet.

I took it to a data recovery specialist who is looking at it now. He is not even sure if he will be able to recover my data and if he does it will cost me 500 dollars which I'm not even sure is worth it. Do Not Buy this drive!!

Even if I can get it replaced under the warranty, I'm not sure If I want it. I may just cut my losses and buy a different drive from a better company.

8 of 11 people found this useful

I've had this product for less than 2 years and it DIED! I've lost all of my information and need to warn people not to buy the product so they don't have the same problem!

9 of 11 people found this useful

I bought the drive over a year ago with my Mac Air and for 11 1/2 months it worked well. When midnight came on the last day of the year it just stopped working - now it just clicks.

Love the compact design but it isn't worth much as a back-up drive. By the looks of the reviews of the other back-up products on the Mac site this one isn't alone.

Very disappointed in Mac for selling this junk.

36 of 44 people found this useful

Failed after less than a week of LIGHT USE. Will be sending it back for repair or probably replacement. Good thing warranty is for 3 years but still. All my data are stored in this drive as backup. Now they're all gone. Geez. :|

12 of 13 people found this useful

I like the design and the sleekness. It doesn't take up much space. However, after using it for one year, it died.

25 of 27 people found this useful

Bought this about 6 mos ago. It failed after 3 months. Sent it back in for repairs. It failed again within 1 mo. Will never buy their products again.

93 of 103 people found this useful

Bought this product and for the majority of the time i loved it! design looks great and sat nicely beside my macbook air. After some solid use of transferring movies back a forth from the macbook air to this device, it suddenly stopped working. I met with an apple genius who told me that the software had been over run? He advised me to try and restore the hard drive, and if i was unable to do that to contact G-Drive. I had no such luck on restoring the drive.

Really wish this worked better, hope it doesn't happen to you.

I will no longer be using a G-Drive products for my hard drives.

123 of 139 people found this useful