500Gb 500 Gb 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive Portable USB 2.0 - Black - Ntfs

I picked this drive primarily because it still uses the proven mini USB connector that has been in use for 15+ years or so now. I read a number of reviews of the USB 3 drives and saw enough complaints of broken connectors to want to avoid them. The miniature version of the USB 3 connector does look flimsy and unreliable to me. I am using this drive for backup and restore. The read speed is good enough for me at 30-35 MB/s. I also liked that the drive did not come with extra software, features, cloud services, etc. I just wanted a drive I could backup my files to. Of course, any drive by any manufacturer could suddenly die without warning, so always make multiple backups on different drives of your most important files ;-)

Pros:Works flawlessly for storing data. 500 gigs is a nice size for the price.No extra power adapter (given your USB port can provide enough)Looks really nice and simpleCons:USB 2.0 is slow in comparison to more modern USB 3.0+ drives. Do not expect data transfers to be fast. Depending on your use case, this might not matter to you. It doesn't for me.Some USB ports don't provide enough juice, so you'll need to add a USB power brick to the second connector dangling off of the end of it.I set my Wii up so I could dump my game collection to a hard drive using USBLoader GX. Now I can put my games in storage where the kids can't scratch them, and enjoy any game I want without getting off the couch! The Wii only has USB2.0 ports, so the speed of the drive is not an issue. The USB port on the Wii has enough juice to spin this drive just fine, so no extra power adapter.

The drives works great. The cable that came with it, however, is intermittently faulty. I had another cable that I could swap with it so that I could’ve get it to run consistently. I was able to reformat the floriferous to NTFS so that I can use it as a storage device on my Raspberry Pi cluster - nice bonus!

These drives are the absolute best way to go for WiiU homebrewing. If you know what that is then you'll understand what I mean. The capacity as of date has facilitated 117 ISOs with over half the drive space remaining. 10/10 and 5 stars. Seller shipped very quickly and packaging was far above average. I purchased a 250GB USB 2.0 drive as well. Will purchase one more as these are becoming very rare.

Its good but makes a little bit noise!!

I plug the drive into my laptop and in wasn't recognized. So I tried a different cable and that didn't work. Than I tried a different computer, no luck.I opened the enclosure and took out the hdd. I used my sata to usb cable and the drive was instantly recognized.I'm keeping the hdd because it works, but really disappointed the enclosure didn't work.

Used the product to download a game on the computer because the computer didn’t have enough storage. If you’re ever looking for a cheap computer but it has very little storage space just buy one of these and save hundreds of dollars :)

Does the job I need it for just swell.