Silicon Power 4TB USB-C USB 3.0 Rugged Portable External Hard Drive Armor A60, Military-Grade Shockproof/Water-Resistant for PC, Mac and iPad Pro, Black

Silicon Power is a Taiwan-based manufacturer making their own hard drives and cases since 2003. There is no Seagate or WD or any other thing inside as some people have claimed. I own 6 different SP drives, an A30 from 2014, an A80 from 2015, an A85 from 2016 and 3 A60 drives from 2025. I use them for mostly archival storage, accessing the files to watch movies or view pictures every couple months or so. NONE have failed yet...I bought the 3 new hard drives this year because HDDs should only last 3-5 years or so. Mine have worked great for a decade and are still going. Also...I would recommend only buying HDDs from a dedicated big box store UNLESS you specifically buy MIL SPEC drop rated drives in protective cases. Delivery drivers have no idea what is inside the box and throw, kick, toss and otherwise smash your delicate drive. Big box stores get pallets and then put them out on the floor, almost never kicked. Shipped HDDs go through heat, cold and misuse before they get to you. I have security cameras and I promise each hard drive that was delivered was either tossed or dropped from at least waist or knee height at my door. I also bought at the same time, two LaCie rugged minis, neither of those drives survived the "delivery" process and had to be returned. All hard drives will fail...ALL... at some point, it's just the way the read/write medium coupled with mechanical stuff works. So what do we do? Well SSDs are fast and inherently more durable BUT they must stay plugged into a PC for 2+ hours every 6 months or so as they need to kind of "rewrite" data to to maintain the data they have. Also NAND memory types have different endurance levels. SLC has the highest endurance, while QLC has the lowest. About 99.9% don't even know what that is, which is fine. Just know that a quality SSD will last 5-10 years IF able to not be rewritten a bunch and access to a PC of some type. I feel for Archival "type" storage your best bet is a RUGGED HDD saved in a couple of locations along with cloud storage of some type ( the "Cloud" is just someone else's hard drives some where else) there are also DVD and Tape storage that really can last 50+ years just kinda pricey sometimes. In any case IF you are storing your data in one place DON'T, just don't. It will fail and paying for data recovery that may not work is just a frustrating waste of time and money. Almost every one star review is someone mad because their drive failed...(it 100% will fail) and they cant retrieve data reliably. Why would a big old drive company ever even offer data recovery or backup unless they know THEIR DRIVES WILL FAIL!! For most folks on a budget, buy multiple rugged HDDs. A side note Archive drives or SMR drives are for sure better but cost a bunch of cash and guess what? They will fail also. Second side note while not expressly proven, many times a smaller (1 or 2 TB) drive might last a bit better than a larger (4,5,6 etc TB) because to store more data they may use closer data storage and in many cases multiple disks adding to the mechanical complexity of the drive. Hope this helps!

Comes with its own cables including one for your phone backup. Great to get everything you need in one pkg.

Hardly use this device and it just stop working. I had all my photos files stored as a backup. expected this to stand up with the description stated. sad part I left the country and no way of returning.

I received the hard drive and it performed as expected, very good. However, they indicate the cable is a USB A to USB C but in fact it is a USB A to USB A with a USB A to C adapter, which is clunky. I contacted the manufacturer thru the Amazon portal and they responded in less than 2 business days. Good time. However, they told me they only provide the USB A to A cable with the adapter to C and do not have an A to C cable. They did not provide me a source for an A to C cable. I purchased an A to C data cable from VCZHS Tech on Amazon but my computer did not recognize the harddrive using that cable. I am still looking for an A to C cable that will work with this hard drive.

I don’t know how this has 4.5 stars in total. A lot of the reviews are negative, and are accurate. I wish I had read them before buying it. Anyway, the drive worked on initial use, but was slow. I unplugged it after transferring about 60GB of files, and then plugged it back in, and my computer couldn’t read the drive anymore! I tried general troubleshooting, but the drive made my computer so slow that I couldn’t even load any of my device or disk management programs. The only way I can think to fix it now is to reformat the drive, but that would delete all of the files that I have on it. So now I’ve paid over $100 to have 60GB of my data deleted. Please don’t even consider buying this drive.

I had bought one of these drives and had to buy a second one after the 1st one fell. The case fell apart but years later all taped up the drive is still working.

This hard drive uses an annoying USB-A to USB-A cable. If you lose it, good luck. I tried several other USB-A to USB-A cables as well as USB-A to USB-C and none of them seemed to work. What a huge pain in the butt. It is advertised as being a USB type C hard drive, but it does not actually have a USB-C port built into it. So you're not actually getting something modern and future-proof.Build quality wise seems fine. Reliability remains to be seen. I've only had it 8 months or so, with irregular use (for backups) so I can't comment on that. Mostly this review is 3 star because I feel a bit cheated by it being so heavily advertised as USB-C but it is clear they just threw the USB-A to C cable in the box so they could claim it is USB-C and be *technically* correct.

I learned the hard way. I once lost an updated manuscript due to putting too much trust into a hosting server. Then when I got home I discovered my computer's hard drive had also died. Now I use two external drives and only connect them when backing-up data. I treat these things like Fabergé eggs, yet they still die with no warning and with no clear reason. The last to go was a Seagate (the second Seagate still works). Hence the reliance on two these days. This one is solid, and seems to be almost bullet proof (a slow bullet, perhaps), though I'm not about to start throwing it about. So, like I said, paraphrasing The King of Cool: "So far so good."

使って半年以上経ちますが問題なく動作してます。難点をあげるとすれば、本体が頑丈な分かさばります。重さは見た目より軽いです。

Pequeno por fora, grande por dentro. Rápido e seguro

For storage data it is very good also the transfer speed is fast.

大量のデータをスムーズに保存でき、正常に使用できました。ただ付属のUSBで接続後のランプは赤色でした。今まで使用してたUSBで接続したところ青色でしたので、本体は問題ないと思います。念のため今までのUSBで代用します現時点では保存されたデータは問題なく使えてるため問題視してませんが若干不安が残ったため、★４つけました。

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