ADATA Dashdrive Durable HD710 Pro External Hard Disk Drive, USB 3.1 (2TB, Blue)

This is brilliant and sturdy. I okay games off it and it runs most good enough, can struggle a bit with AAA but that's to be expected. The feel of the product is brilliant and carry it confidently around with me. Unlike some pricey alternatives that seem to give up if you look at them wrong. I love the handy cable holder built in to the body - designer needs a raise. And the dust cover for the socket gives added peace of mind.

This is a good product and feels very rugged. I wanted something with high capacity for a cost that was not going to break me and pretty good speeds. It's portable, great value for money, and a very high capacity. Of course it would have been lovely to get an SSD drive of this capacity for the same price, but that's just not going to happen at the moment. I am really happy with it, it's double the size the drive I replaced, and usually writes files at 100 + megabytes per second which in all honesty is well fast enough for me.

is a good hart diver but is 1.8TB not a 2TB but is fine

I picked up the 2TB black model at a price drop to £55 and what a bargain for a portable rugged external HDD! The Tech Stuff: The interface is USB 3.2 GEN 1 = USB 3.0 under the old naming scheme, and uses the odd-looking USB type B Micro connector (it really is shaped like a B) at the drive end of the cable, with a USB type A (colour coded blue) at the other end. You'll need to plug it into a USB 3.0 port to get the best result from its speed, but it is backwards compliant with USB 2 ports. It draws 5 volts power from the device you plug it into, so it doesn't require a mains cable. The data cable is on the short side, so I've given enough information above to source an alternative if that is a problem for your use case. The included cable neatly fits into a groove around the shell for transport. The drive inside is a 2.5 5,400 rpm model, although I don't know which brand because I haven't opened the shell. The outer shell is rugged, being both shock and water resistant, and comes with a range of colour banded options if you want to use that to distinguish one drive from another at a glance (or just to suit your tastes). It will work with modern game consoles once you format it with their in-built options. I hope I've given enough information to inform and help you with your purchasing requirements.

I have it for years now. The cable holder around it is extremely handy. Didn't drop it too many times and usually not on a concrete floor, but rather on the carpet, but it holds very well and still reads/writes data well. Since it is USB 3.1 it is no match for newer USB standards, but still fairly fast if you use it in exFAT.

Does the job. Great back up for all sorts of data including photo's.

I bought both a red and a blue one. The storage is great of course as is the outside protection. That's where it ends. The insides of these are both faulty. A few examples of why: 1. 80% of the time it take minutes for it to be recognised by the computer. 2. When they do get recognised they 80% of the time trip out and become unrecognised again so whatever you are transferring won't transfer 3. When you are transferring, 50% of the time, the thing you are transferring freezes and won't transfer. The only thing which will make it transfer is starting all over again by removing the lead. If only they paid as much attention to the innards as they do to protecting the outer, this would be great. Sooooo disappointed.

Bought this to store my photographs on for photography. Very neat piece of kit feels well built. Wire storage very convenient and compact. Only had one issue and thats using it straight of the back from a Mac. I couldn't write i could only read from it. However its an easy fix using the Disk Utility tool which can be found in the launcher using the search bar. Selecting the HDD and performing an erase which is an option in the top right of the Disk Utility Window. Just make sure to select the ExFAT format in the options bar and then perform the erase. And then you should be all good. Still i really like this product and its design therefore i gave it a good rating.

I'm a cinematographer and digital artist so I need A LOT more storage than the usual user. This is my second time buying this hard drive. I'm a biker and I ride everywhere I go. Build quality is easily it's strongest feature. It has survived falling in water, heavy rainfall and ocassionally dropping it. The cable of the first hard drive got lose on the hdd end after a while but I haven't encountered this problem on the second one yet. All my footage and assets or stored in these hard drives and they work lightning fast. Read/write speeds are really fast and impressive. If you travel a lot and often go through rough circumstances, this is a perfect hard drive.

great product

Vroeger had ik een gewone externe schijf die op mijn bureau lag. Tijdens het spelen heeft mijn zoontje de boel omgekeild en de schijf was naar de vaantjes. Daarom wilde ik deze keer absoluut iets robuuster. De behuizing is veel steviger. Alleen is de bijgeleverde kabel erg kort (ca 30 cm). Mijn pc staat onder mijn bureau. De kabel overbrugt niet van de usb-poort naar de voorzijde naar mijn bureaublad.

Good product

PCが古くなって買い換えるため、データ移行として購入しました。 いろいろ探して、耐衝撃、防水、防塵に惹かれて購入しました。 で、最初の方は安定性もあり良かったんですけど、何回かバックアップのために使い、それまでは安定していました。 つい先日新しいPC（Windows10）にデータ移行したら、なぜか安定性がなくなり、不安定に。 原因がPC側なのかHDD側なのか判りませんが、データ移行中に時々HDDが停止します。 Windows7の時は全くそんなことはなかったのですが。大事なデータなので、ビクビクしています。 （ドライブ内は100GBごとにパーテーション変更しているのですが……、丸ごとBlu-rayにするには安心できるメディアが廃盤になってしまったので……）