Transcend 4 TB Rugged Portable Hard Drive - Shock Resistant USB 3.1 Gen 1 StoreJet Navy Blue - TS4TSJ25H3B

had to format it to my mac super fast delighed with it

Brought for our son who has a medical condition casing him to drop things. He needed some extra memory and after a trawl round the internet I came upon the Transcend 2TB 2.5 inch USB 3.0 StoreJet Military Grade Shock Resistance Portable External Hard Drive. The USB 3.0 is great as it provides significant data transfer rates. If the drive is connected via a USB 2 connection then a second connection is also required. To check which USB connection you have look in the laptop/desktop sockets, if they are blue you have USB 3 otherwise its USB 2. I can't say that the shock Resistance works but it does seem rugged and the anti slip casing gives a really good grip. Storage is massive at 2GB and for the price is really excellent. My 1TB hard drive is nearly full and I will certainly be buying another of these in the future.

I have two of these drives now and also two of the 1TB drives. I find them to be fast and reliable, not sure about the shock resistant claims as I haven't ever dropped them to test it and don't intend to either.I can say I often carry the drives in backpacks that do get manhandled, bumped and knocked about and feel safe knowing they are relatively robust hard drive ( not quiet a drop test but good enough for me )I haven't had any issues with this drive and intend to purchase another one soon, the only thing I would say is to be careful with the USB 3 lead, it is a little flimsy and likely to break off in the drives port if transported connected in.

within 4 weeks, I noticed that multiple files I was creating were either not saving, disappearing after saving, becoming corrupt, or completely rearranging themselves.I contacted Amazon, which couldn't help. I contacted Transcend, who didn't know what was happening, and suggested I format the hard drive despite my telling them I would lose all my data. they had no other suggestions. so I formatted the hard drive. seemed to work for another 4 weeks before the entire hard drive became corrupt, meaning it wont open at all, and I lost all my files. tried contacting the manufacturer, Transcend, via email, website and phone, by they ignored me. So had to raise it with \ Amazon and get my refund. DO NOT BUY.

I currently had two 1 TB hard drives which I have had for over 10 years and they are huge, each one is about twice the size of this, one is completely full of music and the other is full of family photos, after transferring everything onto this I still have another 2 TB left.It is small and compact enough to just drop in your laptop bag or pocket and take with you, it feels robust with its rubber case so if you drop it your data should be safe and at this price it's a bargain considering my 1 TB drive cost me twice the price of this. I might even get another just as a back up.

I was looking for a high capacity USB3 drive and already have one of the older Transcend StoreJet (500Gb) drives, so thought I'd give this one a go. My older drive (purchased in 2011, I think) is still going strong and I've never had any problems with it.After placing the order, I noticed that the WD Elements equivalent (2TB) drive was 17GBP cheaper. I figured I'd go ahead and order the WD drive too, and return the Transcend drive to Amazon after it arrived. So, why am I leaving a review of a drive I presumably returned? Well, having the two drives side-by-side, I chose to keep the Transcend and send the WD drive back instead.The WD drive is very neat. It's pretty much a square and is smaller than the Transcend drive but a little thicker. The WD's housing is nice enough to look at but feels very plasticky and rigid. It has 4 small, rubber feet on the bottom but really feels like it wouldn't handle bumps and knocks very well and there's not very much grip on the casing. Straight away, I felt that I'd be forced to handle it with much more care than the Transcend (more on that in a minute) and be worried about it slipping out of my hand whilst carrying it to and from the machine it was purchased to act as a backup for (and I didn't want to have to end up buying a soft case for it).I can't attest to build quality, reliability or anything like that, as I've literally only had both drives for a couple of days. They both connect without any problems, both write at roughly the same speed in some tests I did (about 26-27MBps on USB2), both are formatted to NTFS (although oddly enough, I seem to remember the WD Elements 2TB drive actually showing up with very slightly more free space than the Transcend...maybe the cluster size is different. Anyway...I'd not even opened the Transcend drive and was midway through boxing it up and processing the return when I figured I could at least just open it. As soon as I had it in my hand, I knew that I'd be keeping this drive instead of the WD Elements. The StoreJet has a really nice rubber casing and although it's physically a bit bigger than the WD Elements, it feels like it would physically be more sturdy and the grip provided by the rubber casing means that you won't constantly be worrying about dropping it. Interestingly enough, the Transcend drive's packaging doesn't appear to offer as much protection as the WD's packaging...that could tell you something about how delicate WD seem to think their drive might be. Also, the Transcend comes with a 3yr (albeit "limited") warranty, over the WD Element's 2yr.They both come with software that most of us won't even use (although the version of WD's backup software is only a 30-day trial, whereas, Transcend's software seems to be fully functional) and both come with short USB3 cables. I prefer the cable that comes with the WD drive; it's longer and thinner (therefore, more flexible).I don't doubt that the WD Elements drive is excellent, I just preferred the Transcend and think the extras (seemingly better protection, longer warranty, etc.) were worth the slightly extra price. I'll update this review in the coming months if I have any problems with it - if you're reading this and don't see an *** UPDATE ***, assume it's still going strong. :-)

just what I was looking for

Have had this for a couple of months and it's been superb. Instantly recognised by every computer I've tried it with - and that includes an old XP machine which usually has trouble with modern external drives. Speed - well, I'm not an expert, but the green block seems to move across the screen pretty rapidly. No noise apart from a helpful, rather biological-sounding squeak when you plug it in. Doesn't doesn't seem to get very warm, and the rubbery protective skin manages to look good, though haven't dropped it yet, so can't speak for shock resistance. Finally, not to be taken for granted given the behaviour of some devices on the market, files get copied with unerring accuracy.