Glyph Blackbox Plus Portable Hard Drive 2TB

Glyph is it. Fast, tough, but be careful, power surges can kill it.

Small, reliable, and easy to install.

I know there are a lot of compact drives available, but I've settled on the Glyph BlackBox drives as being a great value, especially at their price point. Super reliable and well made, I really like the construction of the shell as well as the rubber jacket feature that adds shock protection. Have been using these pretty exclusively for a few months now and planning to order some more as my need for more memory and portable drives increases.

In January 2024, I got a bad drive from Toshiba. I held my photo back ups. It was irreparable so I retuned it for a refund and bought this. Now, less than two months from setting this drive up, it is no longer accessible and I can’t get anything off it. It makes a clicking noise while it operates. It freezes my Mac. It disconnects itself and other drives. My photo library is once again unavailable and I can’t repair or even erase the drive as it is. I am trying to find the manufacturer and seller to make this good. I will update if I have any luck. In the meantime, beware the Glyph Drive! (Update) I was impressed. They did get back to me. Two different people. One apologized and offered a full refund. I didn’t expect that, the other person said they don’t do refunds. So I have to send it back before they send a replacement, which, frankly, I don’t want or trust. Besides, there is private material on the drive that I now can’t access so I can’t send it back if I wanted to. So here I am again. And I really need a new drive! Why would one person offer me a full refund and one say no? Not a good sign.) FINAL UPDATE: Customer Service contacted me and gave me an option that worked fine for me. I returned my dead drive and them erased it using a degausser. Then they found the drive and sent me a new one. So things went full circle, I am pleased, and that is why I have upgraded my stars and review. They came through for me! 🏆

Good storage product, I recommend it

I like the solid build. Only time will tell in terms of whether it will hold up. Several month and seems fine. My last high capacity portable drive (different manufacturer) suffered a single 3 ft drop onto cork floor and was destroyed. USB-C port broke from encrypted internal board making data recovery possible only by expensive professional data recovery service. Hopefully this one doesn't suffer a similar fate.

This is the second Glyph I bought and my decision was based on the experience I'm having with the first one. One year on, the first Glyph is working perfectly. The second one is for transferring files. This is good value for the money, but then one would expect that storage gets cheaper over time.

I purchased this based on past successes with Glyph as a premium device for which I was willing to pay the extra premium. I used it as a third tier backup for important financial information. Unfortunately it failed shortly after the return deadline. I did not have it encrypted nor password protected so was reluctant to return it to Glyph for an exchange out of concern of data privacy. So I would 1) recommend not purchasing this and 2) with the one that you eventually purchase add protection so that if it fails you can feel comfortable with any return policy.

Le produit est de bonne facture, même si la coque de protection externe manque un peu de rigidité et a une tendance a bouger sur le boitier. Ce dernier est massif mais difficile d'avoir 5to dans plus petit sans passer au SSD. Par contre pour le prix, on s'attend au moins a voir un câble Thunderbolt, mais rien, juste un câble usb classique donc il faut rajouter 20/30€ a une facture déjà salée Pour le moment les performances sont correctes, même si le disque a une tendance a gratter. Pour le moment il est monté en Raid 1 avec un autre disque de 3,5" et je l'embarque lors de mes déplacements.

En principio lo reconoce y el funcionamiento bien pero no se tiene acceso al disco para formateo ya que uso W10. Espero encontrar solución para acceso, sino tendré que devolverlo.

Adquirimos este disco para un trabajo el trabajo de postproducción de una miniserie y funciona bien. Lo único complejo fue formatearlo en ExFat desde un windows.

Fait trop de bruit ! Obligé de le débrancher la nuit pour pouvoir dormir...