Glyph BlackBox Pro BBPR6000 6TB External Hard Drive 7200 RPM, USB-C (3.1,Gen2)

I just got this drive now. As a photography student you take a lot of photos!! I didnt like not being able to have them not on one drive. You know it's bad when you're 4tb drive is almost full!! So I got this larger one to keep them all together. I had also been volunteering and dont like taking my only main drive with me. I've seen and heard about people doing that and its stolen. So so fat this is great. Love the extra casing and storage and not to huge so I can easily carry it around. I normally go with major brands like San Fisk etc for this kind of thing but am really pleased with the quality would buy again!!

Very fast, easy to connect to the new MacBook. A bit loud.

I love the build, the reliability and the pricing. Also love the cool design. If the dependability of this drive keeps up, I will likely switch to them from my previous company.

These hard drives are heavy and noisy... but study, they are not. They are too heavy to withstand damage. I dropped one once and it stopped working completely. There are better, sturdier hard drives that are less expensive.

Instead I recommend LaCie d2 Professional 6TB USB-C: Same price, 5 yr warranty and 5 yr data recovery warranty vs. 3 year warranty and 2 yr data recovery warranty for the BlackBox. Also, when copying from my SSD, 232 mb/s for the LaCie vs. 146mb/s (and142mb/s) for the Glyph BlackBoxes. Note: Copy speed is limited to about the speed of the slower drive when copy from a slower hard drive.PRO: Well build, quite, better than average warranty. Therefore, I purchased 2 of these. However, both failed (failed to recognize format) within a month when connected to my USB 3.1 ports. They did not fail and continued to recognize format when connected to my USB 3.0 ports. According to my computer manufacturer, USB 3.1 ports use different electronics.Since both failed, I returned them and purchased the LaCie. Before they failed, I copied from my SSD drive 54 videos (39.65 GB) and timed it. The first BlackBox took 4 min 31 sec, the other slightly longer. The identical copy was only 2 min 51 sec for the LaCie de Professional 6TB.CON: In addition to the failures described in the foregoing paragraph, the BlackBox has a protected partition so you cannot format the complete drive using Windows disk management. Instead you must remove the partitions using Command Prompt (AKA cmd.exe) clean command. Other external hard drive manufactures include a program that cleans and formats hard drives for Windows. If Glyph provided a format program or else provided instruction on their web site on how to clean and format the complete hard drive for windows, this would not be an issue.

Picked up the 6TB version to be used out on set during production. We've had this out on 2 shoots so far and it is working as advertised, which is all you can ask for. It is a large drive, think a little smaller than a GDrive. It is externally powered. It is quiet, as it is currently offloading 5TB of footage right next to me now. Transfer speeds are as advertised. I do really like their 3-2-1 warranty, we retire most drives after a year, and knowing during that year they will overnight a new drive if we need it is great. We have been looking for a replacement for the GDrive and Lacie family and I believe we have found it. We will be picking up more and will be trying out their other products.I'll update this review periodically as we put this drive through its paces.

This is blowing my mind. I've tried USB 3.1 cables with this before with no change in speed. But for a random test, I hooked up the short 3" USB 3.1 cable that came with my SS G Drive. And the speed is skyrocketing! Don't even know how it's possible. Hopefully, the vendor can shed some light on this discovery. Either way, wow!

I ordered 2 drives. Both worked great, only gripe was that one had a noisy fan. Good value, but I probably will stick with the Lacie rugged raid drives in the future. I do like the lighter/slower Glyph drives a lot.Additionally, they are quite large and do heat up. Make sure you have adequate ventilation around them.