Maxone 500GB Ultra Slim Portable External Hard Drive HDD USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, Laptop, PS4, Xbox one – Charcoal Grey

Once I first purchased a brand new laptop computer a number of years in the past, 237 GB of onerous drive appeared like it could final endlessly. It wasn’t till current instances when making an attempt to put in my newest buy of Far Cry 6 solely to find it required a whopping 60GB of reminiscence and the obtainable area on the present inside onerous drive was however a sliver compared. Even after deleting or uninstalling all the pieces I really did not want, it nonetheless was not sufficient (Home windows 10 itself is a reminiscence hog), thus I had little selection besides to purchase a brand new laptop or set up a bigger onerous drive. A brand new laptop computer was economically out, particularly when the present one was nonetheless working fantastic and I didn’t wish to need to cope with putting in one other inside drive given the problem of inserting one in even the bigger confines of a desktop I had skilled years again.

So, discovering out exterior onerous drives had now shrunk to a measurement the place they would not take up an excessive amount of area on a desk and truly be transportable, I buy the Maxone Extremely Slim Transportable and to date, I’ve not been disenchanted.

At about 4 1/2″ in size and three 1/2″ in width, the Maxone is certainly svelte and really unobtrusive subsequent to the pc itself (although I maintain it behind it). It’s easy plug and play and connects to any obtainable USB port with a typical cable (although one got here with it). At about 18″ the equipped cable is form of brief, however seeing as how one will doubtless have the drive near the pc, that isn’t actually a problem and as acknowledged, any related, longer cords would work simply as properly. It’s sufficiently small that I can match it into my laptop computer case with each the pc and mouse if I have to entry one thing on the exterior drive away from dwelling.

Putting in mentioned online game took virtually the higher a part of the day, however I believe it had extra to do with the dimensions of this system, in addition to the Steam obtain velocity and fewer to do with the onerous drive itself. I think about transferring normal information, like pictures and such, ought to show to be quicker, however to date, I’ve solely used the Maxone for the sport as I nonetheless have room for all the pieces else on the pc itself. The sport ran fantastic on the Maxone and did not crash as soon as throughout the a number of weeks on and off it took me to finish it.

Total, I’m glad with it and the worth for the extra quantity of reminiscence. I’ll doubtless reserve the Maxone for downloaded video games as till Moore’s Legislation catches up with packages and gaming graphics, it can doubtless be sufficient extra reminiscence for my wants or no less than till the graphics card within the laptop computer itself can now not run the newest video games. Although I may ultimately use it to again up some essential information as failing to take action prior to now was a tragic lesson I don’t want to repeat and thus, the Maxone would even be good for redundancy storage and I’ll ultimately buy one other one for simply that goal completely.

Crammed this up with Anime, TV and Motion pictures, received about 60gigs left and it has been a couple of month. It is doin the factor properly, I am pleased with it. The plastic on the perimeters does appear fragile, however I might care much less about that. Solely gripe is that it finally ends up solely being 465gb to make use of.

Edit: it is now Feb twenty fifth, virtually half a yr of use, I’ve eliminated and added lots, it is put by each day virtually all day daily use and I’ve but to have a problem, plan on getting a second 1tb and simply conserving this one for simply anime, nice purchase and an amazing value! Positively been recommending this to folks.

Edit: it is now August twenty sixth, I’ve observed some movies not taking part in like they used to, this can be on account of getting a second one and having them each plugged in and working and the identical time (my laptop computer is not one of the best) apart from that every one information are nonetheless there, they nonetheless play (although some Mkv information appear to have extra artifacts, this might simply be my laptop computer although)

Feb 14th 2020, closing edit: nonetheless works fantastic, no complaints.

Could fifth 2022, finalfinal edit: it has been years and years and it nonetheless works.

Sept 18th 2022; I purchased a second one, the primary one nonetheless works, I simply needed one for my prolonged storage on the PlayStation.

I wanted a small exterior onerous drive and this one does the job completely whereas additionally being extraordinarily compact. I’ve no complaints and have not run into any points making an attempt to make use of it–it’s merely only a plug and play exterior HDD. Some issues to notice, nonetheless:
1. The onerous drive makes use of a USB micro-B to USB-A cable, that means that you simply will not have the ability to plug a daily USB-A or USB-C cable into the onerous drive itself. This is not a deal breaker, however for those who lose the cable, I doubt you should have one other one mendacity round.
2. The onerous drive is a tough drive. This is not your premium exterior solid-state drive, so do not anticipate premium SSD speeds out of this drive. Not at all is that this HDD sluggish, however it is not precisely quick both. For the value, nonetheless, that is about pretty much as good because it will get.
Total, I might completely suggest this drive to anybody on the lookout for a easy, compact exterior HDD at an affordable value.

The drive was DOA, I acquired glorious buyer help and so they changed the drive with out incident. Nonetheless, after forensically wiping the drive and formatting it to exFAT, as famous within the product description, the drive wouldn’t mount on my Linux field, nor be acknowledged by Home windows. I saved getting a nasty tremendous blocker or no helper file error. I modified the formatting to NTFS and Ext4 with no change within the error. I then formatted it to FAT and it was lastly in a position to work. FAT is simply referenced within the product description if you view the ‘Evaluate to different merchandise’ when considered in Amazon. FAT has a 4GB limitation on information so its odd to market this as a backup exterior drive particularly for Avid gamers, and nugatory for encryption functions because you now need to wipe 3-5, 5-7 instances to overwrite the bodily disk (relying in your sources). For what I want it for, it can suffice, though I cannot be buying this product once more shifting ahead.
Inconsistences with the reported format and USB interface.
USB 3.0 and exFAT on the product description important web page. USB 1.1 and FAT on the comparability desk.
3 yr guarantee can be value noting.