G-Tech 8TB G-RAID Thunderbolt Hard Drive

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Gets extremely hot, and then slow, and finally stuck

    • Written by from 新座市

    47 of 64 people found this useful

    This one goes back to the apple store next week. The first thing I wanted to do was to copy my iTunes library to it. After 100 GB it was extremely hot and finally it was stuck doing nothing nothing. It is a good price per TB but considering the performance, this is not recommendable.

    Was this useful? Gets extremely hot, and then slow, and finally stuck

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Drives not hot-swappable. What's the point?

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    55 of 84 people found this useful

    If I want the decent performances using RAID 0/5 + Thunderbolt (for video editing for instance), ideally I take 2xSSD
    If I want the safe data storage using RAID 1 (for external backup of my data), I need hot swappable drives so I can change myself a failed drive.

    None of these 2 key options are offered with the G-RAID.
    So disappointing to wait so long to see the first G-Tech Thunderbolt device and finally get such a bungled design apparently worth $999...

    Was this useful? Drives not hot-swappable. What's the point?

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Don t buy

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    42 of 67 people found this useful

    Definitly not worth the price the design isn't that good and the performances are not better than my former eSATA drive, I should have bought something capable of more than eSATA (300 MB/s)

    Was this useful? Don t buy

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Drive

    • Written by from Pompano Beach

    11 of 13 people found this useful

    This drive is great! Fast, quiet, cool! The only reason why it does not get 5 stars is that it does not go to sleep when computer sleeps. Why that is, is not to understand since the Lacie Thunderbold drives do ( and they have an on/off switch as wel)l. Otherwise perfect, like always with G-Tech...

    Was this useful? Great Drive

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  • 3.0 out of 5 stars

    Love! that it is big and it is quiet

    • Written by from EDMONTON

    24 of 40 people found this useful

    I haven't done enough work with it yet to review performance with media files, but it is huge and it is quiet, very quiet..

    Was this useful? Love! that it is big and it is quiet

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Quiet and Fast

    • Written by from IVEL

    7 of 9 people found this useful

    Plugged it in, and it works great.

    I added a crontab like this to keep the drive from sleeping during work hours:

    > */5 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 * * 1,2,3,4,5 touch /Volumes/G-RAID/1 <

    This keeps the drive idling or available.

    Was this useful? Quiet and Fast

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    love love love it

    • Written by from Calabasas

    7 of 10 people found this useful

    There is nothing but awesomeness and performance out of this G-Raid. I have it sitting right behind my dual Thunderbolt Displays and I can't here but a whisper. As an avid audiophile who slices his wrist if I can hear a single little tiny hizz, buzz, or fan, even though all my other HDs are SSD I can barely barely hear the G-Raid two foot from my nose. Just transferred 4 gigabytes from an external SSD to the G-Raid 8TB... it took 6 seconds. Awesome product, and knowing I'm dealing with Enterprise quality HDs, forget about it.

    Was this useful? love love love it

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