SanDisk Professional G-Drive 8TB Enterprise Class Desktop external Hard Drive, HDD up to 250 MB/s, USB-C (5Gbps), USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen 2), 7200 RPM Ultrastar, fast backup, Premium, Industrial enclosure

The SanDisk Professional 8TB hard drive is very well made. Solid construction. Very elegant on the desktop. Drives are also stackable. It plugs into the Thunderbolt connection (cable supplied) of my Apple Mac Studio and was up and running within a few minutes. Drive is pre-formatted.The drive is powered by an external power plug (also supplied).When applying power to my Mac and SanDisk the drive does not spin up but waits for the Mac to power up. Both take about the same time to initialise and be ready for use. Perfect for storing my large photo library for use with Adobe Lightroom.The drive isn’t silent as it’s a mechanical hard drive but it isn’t irritating to use. It sits under my monitor next to the Mac Studio. There is enough audible feedback to show the drive is reading/writing. It is a quiet drive compared to others I have used, and it’s certainly a lot quieter than my NAS drive.Drive temperature is slightly warm when it’s been used for a few hours. Perfectly acceptable.Windows or Apple Mac Operating Systems power down the drive by default to save energy. This can be disabled in the OS settings. It’s easy to find the step by step instructions on the SanDisk support web page.

I have this attached to my new UGREEN Revodok Max 213, Thunderbolt 4 Dock. So everytime I plug the charging cable from my dock to my MacBook Pro I get automated backups.The unit is big. It's expensive. It looks amazing. As it's a backup drive it doesn't need to be fast, it just backs up on a schedule. Being mechanical (and not SSD), it's a little noisy with all the clicks & whirling of the seeking heads on the platters but once it's finished it idles and powers down until it's needed again.Set up was the easiest ever, just plugged in and my Mac recognised it and asked if I wanted to set up backups. First backup took about 30mins, everything since just a few mins.It's very expensive. But it's built like a tank and the enterprise drive inside should be reliable for years to come.

I did miss read the add when I bought as I searched for an SSD drive however after a few monic glitches It works fine just hade to get used the slight delay in the instant access you get with SSD.That being said excellent value for such a huge drive.

After trying to cancel my item twice, it still got delivered and although I had intent in sending it back, I decided to open it to see what I got.First red flag was the fact that both plastic seals were broken already, and the flap to open the box was slightly warped.The second flag was that one of the bags had been crudely cut open alongside some random hairs inside the box.Finally, the third red flag was the fact one of the hole covers was missing, as well as a bunch of dirt all over the enclosure. I found the 4th hole cover in the box outside of the bag. Strange...I definitely got sent either a used or refurbished drive, when I literally ordered new.After a bit more digging, I found most people online have had problems within a few months of owning this drive and other SanDisk's, as well as the horrible SSD accident with firmware last year.Steer clear, buy your own hard drives and enclosures. You have no idea what drive is actually in this.

Huge storage capacity and lightening quick response times. An attractive, well made case that looks like it would stand up to hard use. This is a great external drive. It's not too big either.