Transcend StoreJet 25H3 1TB Rugged Portable Hard Drive, Shock Resistant USB 3.1 Gen 1, Navy Blue -TS1TSJ25H3B

This is a great piece of kit at a great price from Amazon. It looks and feels solid and is easy to hold as it has a rubberised feel to it, unlike many of the other shiny cased hard drives which easily slip out of the hand. It works as well as it looks and the 1 TB storage is more than adequate for my purposes. I'm more than happy with my purchase and would buy another without hesitation. Highly recommended.

I love your external but the USB connection lead has stopped....working. Using my wife's lead now and she's mad as a lorry about it, I fear she may use the shock-features to my disadvantage. Honestly. I can see her looking at me now. She's pretending to eat soup, although I guess she chose the soup tonight in order to use the soup spoon to check out if I was abusing her cable. The spoon is concave. She can be like that.

I eventually decided on this unit. Its rubberised and provides good grip and grip on any clean surface. The USB3 on my USB3.0 equipped laptop worked very well compared over USB2.0 I copied over films and even Topfield and Humax recordings and found them playable on my LG and Samsung TV's (once I renamed the Topfield .rec file to .ts, the Humax were already .ts). The USB3 read speed avarages out at 86MB/s using HDTach3.1 (48MB/s-112MB/s) I've not dropped it yet. The backup/reconnect button works to reconnect well. I've not used any of the supplied software yet. Its blue indicator is the same colour regardless USB2.0 or USB3.0 connection. I had read the colour was different when working in USB2.0 vs. USB3.0, well this is wrong or not anymore, shame but no biggie. Connecting cable is USB3 Type-A one end to USB3 Micro-B connecting to the drive. Pretty standard. I didn't find loose fitting. I have tried connecting this to the Humax HDR Fox T2 and mostly without problem. Recommended.

Excellent disk for travelling. Very well protected for knocks and bumps. Initial problem I had was that I copied files from my Windows laptop and then tried to read them with my Mac laptop. The Mac didnt recognize the disk. The disk was formatted exFat with my Windows machine (a format both for Win and Mac to r/w). The solution was to reformat it in exFat BUT in the Mac machine. This fixed the problem and both machines can read and write in the disk. Another issue I had was when I tried to connect the disk to a Samsung Tab S2 tablet. The disk wouldnt start. This is because the USB in the tablet has no enough power to turn on the disk. The solution was to plug the disk with an external cable to the USB in the wall. Delighted with it and cant wait to bring it backpacking in my next trip.

Great build quality with good speeds and super price. I hope it will last long.

No problems with this, it seems rugged and well made. The supplied back up software (on the drive) works well both in full backup and sync on the go mode. The cable connection to the unit is not of a type that i have seen before, USB on one end something odd on the other. So if lost a replacement might be tricky to find but apart from that.........

Working well for a few months then for some reason it stopped working on one of the USB ports on the laptop even though it was working fine on this same port previously. Windows just doesn't see it when plugged in. Now can only use it on another USB port on the same laptop and the speed is somewhat slower than it was originally. Don't know if this is the fault of Windows or this drive. But hoping it won't stop working altogether. Also, it doesn't seem to be backward compatible with my other older laptop as in this older laptop which is USB 2 it can't see this drive at all so I am unable to transfer data between my 2 laptops which was the reason for buying this drive in the first place so am disappointed in this respect hence the 4*

Comparing the opposition this package oozes quality and confidence it will continue to work after a bounce... unlike Western digital passport of which I have had 2 and both packed in after relatively little use, but had travelled a lot in my back pack, even tho they were never dropped.