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G-Technology announces new high-performance portable Mac drives

External storage for Macintosh-based content creators just got a bit bigger with the release of new 1- and 2-terabyte storage devices from G-Technology.

The company announced Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show its G-Drive mini and G-RAID mini storage devices, which are built around HGST's 2.5-inch, 1TB 7,200RPM hard disk drives. The G-Drive mini offers up to 136MB per second transfer speeds in an aluminum enclosure.

The device's 1TB drive is preformatted for Macintosh systems, has both USB 3.0 and FireWire 800 connections, and is Time Machine ready, the company said. It is shipping now for approximately $244.

G-Drive

The G-RAID mini is targeted at video editors, ships in a RAID 0 configuration, and supports compressed high definition video formats, including HDV, Panasonic's DVCPRO HD, Sony's XDCAM HD, and Apple's ProRes 422 HQ. It features a pair of 1TB 7,200 RPM hard drives and is powered by FireWire.

The G-RAID mini also features a thermo-regulated cooling fan to ensure the device is operating at optimal temperatures as well as an on/off switch. The G-RAID mini can also be configured in RAID 1 protected mode with the included software utility. It is expected to ship in Q1 2013 for approximately $552.

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18 Comments

tallest skil

said about 11 years ago

High-performance… no Thunderbolt.

We're holding things to that standard now, right?

lighteningkid

said about 11 years ago

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High-performance… no Thunderbolt.

We're holding things to that standard now, right?

High-performance doesn't necessarily mean speed. It could mean durability, or reliability... it's a pretty subjective phrase, really.

Didn't I hear somewhere that USB2.0 (which according to the picture is what this drive really has) is good enough for these drives, anyway? The bottle-neck in speed isn't the USB, it's the platter hard-drive itself.

wizard69

said about 11 years ago

[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/155348/g-technology-announces-new-high-performance-portable-mac-drives#post_2255240"]High-performance… no Thunderbolt. [/Quote] A worthless piece of crap if you ask me. No wonder this is on AI's Backpage. It is the excessively high asking price that pretty much makes this drive a joke. [Quote] We're holding things to that standard now, right? [/quote] At the price they are asking yes TB should be included. Beyond that the storage capacity sucks for the money. I can't see any reasonable person paying that much money for these drives, especially the "RAID" version. $552 for the RAID model, just whom are they trying to fool.

wizard69

said about 11 years ago

[quote name="LighteningKid" url="/t/155348/g-technology-announces-new-high-performance-portable-mac-drives#post_2255272"]High-performance doesn't necessarily mean speed. It could mean durability, or reliability... it's a pretty subjective phrase, really. [/Quote] I don't consider it subjective at all, it implies extra value for the money you are paying and these drives have nothing like that at all. Honestly who in their right mind would be offering FireWire on new drive tech? [Quote] Didn't I hear somewhere that USB2.0 (which according to the picture is what this drive really has) is good enough for these drives, anyway? The bottle-neck in speed isn't the USB, it's the platter hard-drive itself. [/quote] USB 2.0 can be a bottleneck USB 3 maybe not. This unit though is using laptop drives so performance probably wasn't a goal anyways. All in all though the unit strikes me as a rip off.

suddenly newton

said about 11 years ago

[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/155348/g-technology-announces-new-high-performance-portable-mac-drives#post_2255240"]High-performance… no Thunderbolt. We're holding things to that standard now, right? [/quote] TB is not as universal across Macs as the older interconnects are. Few iMacs have TB, and none of the Mac Pros.

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