Silicon Power 5TB USB-C USB 3.0 Rugged Game Drive A62 External Hard Drive PS5 Compatible

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!

I just bought my 3rd one of these, so I guess I should review it.This is a spinning hard drive, know that. But I bought the first one April 2023, and they've all held up. They are pretty fast too. I have an SSD that is much slower.

I love these drives. I own 2. I travel with one, and keep one at home as a backup. Fast transfer and very portable for 5TB.

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.

Muy buena la compra.

I LOVE the version I bought....(The 5TB with the USB-A to USB-A connection.)Almost all of my seven 4T portable drives have bad/loose connections. If I bump them while doing a transfer they disconnect. OIY!!The USB-A to USB-A is BY FAR the most secure connection. I am going to replace ALL my Seagate and Western Digital portable hard drives with these 5TB SILICON POWER types.They offer a green 5T version too. I only wish they had more colors. But, I label all my HDD's anyways.The internet struggles to explain WHY a USB-A to USB-A is NOT a desirable connection. I don't care. For me it is a superior solid connection that is far more likely to hold up over time.

This is one of the best purchases I have made. I bought this for my wife’s MacBook Air due to the paltry 128GB which this immediately alleviated that. What was a pleasant surprise is that I can also use this with my iPad Pro 2020. It took a good minute or two for the Files app to see it but it worked and is able to read and write files to it. The speeds are not very fast but I’m also not using high capacity files like 8k files but it is able to transfer 1080p and short 4K videos rather fast (maybe due to HEIC on iOS). For the price, I don’t care if I’m waiting an hour as many faster EHDs with far less storage are twice the price of this HD.I don’t remember having to format it to APFS (Mac/iOS) since the specs say this is NTFS but if you are using a Mac, use your Disk Utility and erase the disk to APFS so that it works for your Apple products. If you’re more well-rounded with your tech and also want to use it for PC use ExFAT for better interoperability.Excellent value for 2TBsBTW this is an HDD not SSD, I can hear it spin and whir when it is in use.