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Pair Of G-Raid By G-Technology 8 TB Hard Drive Thunderbolt 2 USB 3.0 - $400 (Chilliwack)
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Retired senior selling a pair of high end quality hard drives known for their high speed and large storage capacity (Come with adaptors)
Total of 16 TB's of storage
These awesome hard drives are designed for professional level video editing. Not easily available in domestic chain computer stores and chances are you'd have to order them from the States and pay shipping, duty, taxes, exchange and maybe some tariffs too. Or alternatively buy mine without the fuss, unknown added expenses and a long wait for delivery
They're designed to work with a Mac but can also be used with a PC
Will consider selling just one if that's all you're looking for
Here are the highlights...
- High-speed up to 440MB's, perfect for photo & video editing
- Quality storage pre-installed with enterprise Class removable hard drives
- Thunderbolt 2 technology, Thunderbolt 2 port with interface speed of up to 20Gb's
- USB 3.0 Super Speed USB 3.0 port with interface speed of up to 5Gb's
- Hardware RAID Configurable in RAID 0 (performance) or RAID 1 (protection), or JBOD
- Smart fan Smart-cooling fan for quiet operation, long life and data reliability
- Durable, Solid, durable and stackable all-aluminum enclosure
- Measure 9.25" long x 5.1" wide x 3.5" tall
If interested please contact
Thx for looking
My wife found this following article on the internet that may describe it better ...
I needed a drive (or drives) that didn't compromise speed. Basically, I wanted a Thunderbolt drive. G-Technology's G|RAID solution intrigued me, so I decided to try it out for myself.
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Specifications
Not only am I the face of the Audioholics product review videos, I also have the job of editing them together. That’s sort of my niche: editing video. And now that everything shoots in HD and the smallest video file can take up over a gig—sorry, gigabyte—hard drive space is a commodity that is both increasingly cheap yet even more increasingly in demand. I recently switched away from a Mac Pro tower to a faster iMac, but with that came a loss of four hard drive slots. I wanted (needed, really) an external drive solution that could replace the terabytes of internal storage I was using. But I also needed a drive (or drives) that didn’t compromise speed. Basically, I wanted a Thunderbolt drive. G|RAID's solution intrigued me, so I decided to try it out.
Their G-RAID with Thunderbolt drive comes in two configurations with the only difference being the drive capacity (4TB or 8TB split across two 7200-rpm Hitachi drives). I reviewed the 8TB, which G-Tech touts can hold up to 8.4 hours of HDV 1080i footage, 1.7 hours of DVCPRO HD video, or 1 hour of Apple’s ProRes422 HQ per 100GB. As most companies do, G-Tech also lists the amount of photos and MP3s it can hold, and while everyone’s megapixel and encoding rates will be different, let’s just say it’s a lot.
enclosure
G-Raid detailThe enclosure is all-aluminum and very simple, yet attractive, and it blends into the current Apple brushed aluminum ecosystem well. It’s got a Thunderbolt badge on the front which distinguishes it from G-Tech’s other G|RAID drives. On the back is a fan that cools the unit, a power button (I miss the hard toggle switch on other models) and two (count 'em) Thunderbolt ports. If you’re looking to use this drive with a computer without thunderbolt, you’re out of luck. That’s probably the only drawback of this unit except for the fact that it doesn’t come with a thunderbolt cable. With a retail price of $999, I expected not to have to drive to my nearest Apple store just to shell out another $49 for a cable. Then I researched what goes into making a thunderbolt cable and found I understood the exclusion a little bit more seeing as they’re not your dime-a-dozen USBs. Still, for a grand, please find a cable and throw it in the box.
The drive comes configured as a striped RAID 0 system, although you can also configure it for RAID 1 redundancy, concatenated (JBOD just a bunch of disks that look like one), or use the two internal drives completely separately. I opted to stay with RAID 0 for my performance tests. I should also mention that I raided the drive using 256K blocks since I work with larger files. Blackmagic Design’s Disk Speed Test rendered results of 317MB/s write and 316MB/s read speed of a 5GB file. AJA's System Test rated the drive with almost exactly similar results using an 8GB file size. Meanwhile, more practical testing showed me that I could move a 1GB file to the drive while simultaneously writing the same size file back to the computer in about 10 seconds. I’m a very happy editor right now.
AJA test black magic test2
If you opt for a mirrored RAID 1 configuration or just use the drives separately, it’ll cut the read and write times in half according to both AJA and Blackmagic disk tests. That would still give you better results than writing to most internal drives. For instance, I can read and write to my desktop at 140MB/s and 100MB/s respectively. Now as far as this drive stacks up against other externals, I didn’t have other Thunderbolts to test it on. However, as an editor, I had plenty of other drives that I’ve used that I’m happy to upgrade from. So for those of you looking to know the difference between G|Raid's Thunderbolt and what we’ve been using, here you go:
Device Configuration
Connection Type
Average Read MB/s
Average Write MB/s
G|RAID w/Thunderbolt
RAID 0 (Striped)
Thunderbolt 317.4
316.5
G|RAID w/Thunderbolt
RAID 1 (Mirrored)
Thunderbolt 155.2 151.5
Internal 7200RPM Hitachi NA
SATA 300
100.3 135.2
Western Digital MyBook Studio
500GB 7200RPM NA
Firewire 800
56.3 56.7
Verbatim 1TB External 7200 RPM NA
USB 2.0
38.1 31.1
Internal 7200RPM Hitachi NA
SATA 300 140.3 115.2
During actual use of the drive, its performance was everything I expected. In all likelihood, it probably gave me better results while editing off of it than what I would have experienced editing off an internal drive. Certainly the speed tests on the internals were nearly a third slower. The only hiccup in my editing came during a few intervals where I found myself working on a piece of footage for an extended amount of time. When I went back to working on the entire timeline, the drive had to rev up before I could continue. It only took a couple seconds, but it was noticeable enough to be a tad frustrating.
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Overall, this drive is a solid choice for anyone looking to upgrade to Thunderbolt speeds and who needs a lot of space in an external solution. Obviously it’s ideal for videographers, photojournalists, and anyone else working with huge files and lots of them—editors like me, for example. It’s going to set you back a fair amount of cash, but for that money you get unparalleled speed among external drives and a ton of space. Oh, and you get another Thunderbolt port so you can daisy chain to your heart’s content.