G-Technology 500GB G-DRIVE Slim USB 3.0 Hard Drive
G-Technology 500GB G-DRIVE Slim USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Product Information
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Overview
The G-DRIVE Slim is the ideal travel companion for your MacBook. It lets you hit the road with plenty of disk drive storage space for all your documents, songs, photos and videos. Easy to use, just plug it into your MacBook. It’s also Time Machine-ready with all its power needs supplied via the single high-speed USB 3.0 cable – no additional power cable required.
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Highlights
- Slim and portable external hard drive for your Mac
- Lightweight, compact aluminium enclosure
- Formatted for Mac and Time Machine-ready
- Bus powered via high-speed USB 3.0
- Three year warranty
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Did you notice?
The USB 3.0 connection is used to transfer data and power the drive, so you don’t need an extra power cable -
Apple Recommends For
Fitting all your files, documents, songs and films into your pocket. -
What's in the Box?
- G-Technology G-DRIVE Slim USB 3.0 Hard Drive
- USB 3.0 cable
- Quick Start Guide
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Tech Specs
- Connections : USB 3.0
- Height : 10 mm/0.39 in.
- Width : 82 mm/3.23 in.
- Weight : 148 g
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System Requirements
Mac
- OS X 10.5 or later
Windows
- Windows XP/Vista/7
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Manufacturer Information
Part Number
- Mfr. Part Number : 0G02364
- UPC or EAN No. : 705487190816
Non-Apple Branded products / Third Party Products
- Note : Apple's One Year Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Non-Apple branded products may have the benefit of a manufacturer's warranty provided by the product manufacturer - Please see your product box and literature for details. Rights under the product manufacturer's warranty are in addition, and not instead of, any rights that you have under consumer protection laws.
Ratings & Reviews
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disappointed
Bought this product and for the majority of the time i loved it! design looks great and sat nicely beside my macbook air. After so me solid use of transferring movies back a forth from the macbook air to this device, it suddenly stopped working. I met with an apple genius who told me that the software had been over run? He advised me to try and restore the hard drive, and if i was unable to do that to contact G-Drive. I had no such luck on restoring the drive.
Really wish this worked better, hope it doesn't happen to you.
I will no longer be using a G-Drive products for my hard drives. …- Written by james robert M from JACKSONS POINT
123 of 139 people found this useful
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Failure as Backup System
Bought this about 6 mos ago. It failed after 3 months. Sent it back in for repairs. It failed again within 1 mo. Will never bu y their products again. …
- Written by Rommell B from Long Beach
93 of 103 people found this useful
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LOVE!
I love this hard drive. I have the 128GB Macbook Air and I store all of my movies on this drive since they don't fit in the Air. I take it with me everywhere, it's much smaller and thinner than it looks in the photos. I've never had any drive issues with it at all- highly recommend it. I wish I had gotten the 1TB, but that was my bad not G-techs at all. …
- Written by Brett M from Austin
79 of 84 people found this useful
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g drive
lost all my baby pictures! thank you for screwing me
- Written by randy G from farmingville
2 of 4 people found this useful
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Don't BUY
don't buy this device. it is highly unreliable. this is the second G-drive slim that i've purchased. i love the design but both of them mysteriously stopped working within a year. i've just come back from 3 months in india and used the device to store all my photos and now i can't access any of them. the drive turns on and spins but take AGES to try complete the simplest task and then doesn't do anything. if anyone has any ideas about how to get the images off the drive i'm be very grateful. …
- Written by Heather E from London
3 of 3 people found this useful
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Don't trust it.
I have been using this drive for 6 months trusting that it was working with my Time Machine. My computer has just failed and it tu rns out all my back ups were empty folders. I have lost 3 years of work thinking it was safe on this drive. It claims to be Time Machine ready, it is a lie. …
- Written by Craig T from Allawah
Questions & Answers
Answers from the community
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I have an old mac book (before pro) can I use this item with it?
- Asked by Gerald C
- 22/02/2013
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Hi, I have about 6,000 pictures. Would you say this is big enough? Thanks
- Asked by Ella W
- 03/01/2013
Answer
depends on the size of ur pic, why not first find out how big are ur photo files and see if its less than 500gb? …
- Answered by Yijing G
- 19/03/2013
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Can I back up two MacBook airs to this hard drive? Would I have to partition the disk?
- Asked by Jeanette C
- 29/10/2012
Answer
Hi!
You ARE able to do this, and the disk does not need to be partitioned. If you backup using the Time Machine utility on Mac OS X, it will create a file which is the back up. In my case, I have my MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac all backed up to the same HDD as it saves each as an individual disk image (.dmg)
hope this helped!
Tarek …- Answered by Tarek B from St Clair
- 25/11/2012
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Can this drive work with iMac?
- Asked by Bhadresh P from Freeport
- 03/12/2012
Best Answer
Yes, any computer with a USB port, windows mac, you name it :)
- Answered by A C
- 02/01/2013
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Will this work on iPad ?
- Asked by B C J from Fishers
- 12/12/2012
Answer
No as it has no USB port, camera connection kits with not make it work either.
- Answered by A C
- 02/01/2013
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Is this consider a backup drive fore my MacBook Air?
- Asked by Brenda B from Sweeny
- 30/10/2012
