SanDisk Professional 22TB G-Drive Project - External HDD, Thunderbolt 3, USB (10Gbps), 7200RPM Ultrastar Hard Drive, Up to 260MB/s Read - SDPHG1H-022T-NBAAD

Good product works great!

Western Digital flat out making excusing for months, wasting my time exhausting all possible efforts to go through all the basic procedures per their website to create the advanced RMA warranty request. THIS IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU HAD DATA BEFORE THE DRIVE FAILED AND IT NEEDS TO BE RECOVERED.This is a "PRO" PRODUCT and the customer support has been INSANE if not possibly fraudulent in their obfuscation of the warranty process.IF YOU CARE ABOUT HAVING PIECE OF MIND WHEN PURCHASING A PRODUCT, RECONSIDER IF WESTERN DIGITAL AND THEIR COMPANY CARES ABOUT YOU AS A CONSUMER AND A PROFESSIONAL IN WHATEVER WORK YOU DO.In my honest experience, they have not.

The drive is excellent, but must be formatted for Windows. The online User Manual for this drive (G-Drive) at westerndigital.com contains detailed instructions to perform this step. The instructions refer to a Command Line prompt available by right-clicking the Start Menu, but I did not see this option for Windows 11. Instead, I use the [windows]+R key to bring up the command prompt. That allowed the necessary commands to be entered and the drive ultimately formatted correctly.

Great hard-drive. Survived shipping! Will buy again!

I'm confused as to why this product even exists. The G-RAID model that looks virtually identical, offers the ability to switch between RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD. This product is striping (RAID 0, no redundancy). You can't even ask it to just present the disks as JBOD. For a few dollars more it's worth stepping up to the G-RAID model to get the flexibility.

Look at the photos. This drive arrived DOA!!!

It’s a solid hard drive but I don’t know why it keeps loosing connection with my Mac Studio. Sometimes it will come back after I turn it off and on. Maybe I’ve got a defective unit…

I took a chance and bought this from the used/return pile for $120 cheaper. I think I got a good deal (fingers crossed). I backed up all three 2TB drives I have on my Lenovo P17, so I could replace them with 4 TB drives. That worked flawlessly. HOWEVER, I had assumed that I would also be able to connect this drive to my slightly older Lenovo P50 which has a regular USB-C port. I had assumed it would just be slower. But, no, it did NOT recognize the drive at all, not even under Disk Management. I tried several cords and concluded that this device ONLY works with a "real" Thunderbolt port and "real" Thunderport cable (look for the lightning bolt). I would be happy if someone would tell me I'm wrong, because, for me, having a backup means you should be able to read your data with your old laptop if your new laptop gets lost or stolen.I didn't even notice that this thing has a slot for an additional "pro-blade" drive, which could be useful. Most of my data are high-res photo scans and videos, so it would be nice to have different libraries on different pro-blades, but again, only if I can access them from more than one computer... and if the price for those came way down.