Customer Reviews and Ratings

3.0 out of 5 stars

Based on 7 reviews

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Gets extremely hot, and then slow, and finally stuck

    • Written by from 新座市

    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.

    47 of 64 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

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

    • Written by

    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...

    54 of 83 people found this useful

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Don t buy

    • Written by

    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)

    42 of 67 people found this useful

  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Great Drive

    • Written by from Pompano Beach

    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...

    11 of 13 people found this useful

  • 3.0 out of 5 stars

    Love! that it is big and it is quiet

    • Written by from EDMONTON

    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..

    24 of 40 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    love love love it

    • Written by from Calabasas

    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.

    7 of 9 people found this useful

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Quiet and Fast

    • Written by from IVEL

    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.

    7 of 9 people found this useful