Glyph Blackbox Plus Portable Hard Drive 1TB

Extremely fast and reliable! I will be sticking with Glyph from now on!! Read more

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. Read more

I got this Glyph external hard drive after I lost all of my files and photos on two Western Digital external hard drives. I was hesitant about the getting it because of the cost, but seeing that it had an SSD in it, was fast, rugged and made in the USA, I went for it. I have a laptop with Windows, so I had to to call them to figure out to format it, since it comes formatted for Macs. They answered the call quickly, spoke English, since they’re headquartered in NY, and stayed with me until I was sure I got it formatted correctly. I copied over thousands of pictures in very few minutes, which I liked, and was super quiet. So far it’s working great! I think with the SSD in it, I won’t have the issue of losing pictures, but time will tell. Read more

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. Read more

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! 🏆 Read more

Good storage product, I recommend it Read more

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. Read more

Great value for a piece of mind. Read more