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G-Technology G-RAID Storage System 4TB High-Performance Dual External Hard Drive with USB 3.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 Interfaces and RAID 0 (0G02484)

3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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4 TB
Digital Storage Capacity 4 TB
Hard Disk Interface USB 1.1
Connectivity Technology USB
Brand G-Technology
Special Feature Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor 3.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description External
Compatible Devices Desktop
Installation Type External Hard Drive
Color Silver

About this item

  • USB 3.0 and FireWire ports for flexible, high-speed data transfer
  • RAID 0 for maximum performance
  • Supports multi-stream HDV, DVCPro HD, XDCAM HD and ProRes 422 workflows
  • Plug-and-play setup on Mac OS
  • Up to 8TB storage capacity

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G-Technology G-RAID Storage System 4TB High-Performance Dual External Hard Drive with USB 3.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 Interfaces and RAID 0 (0G02484)

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G-RAID A dual drive, professional RAID 0 storage solution with high-speed USB 3.0 and FireWire interfaces. Designed for professional content creation applications, G-RAID supports simultaneous playback of multiple layers of HDV/DVCPRO HD ProRes 422 HQ with the leading video editing applications, including Apple Final Cut Pro , AVID Media Composer and Adobe Premiere . An all aluminum enclosure, soft power switch and quiet smart fan round out G-RAID’s professional feature set.

Customer reviews

3.2 out of 5 stars
3.2 out of 5
51 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the quality, speed and ease of setup of the hard drive. For example, they mention it's a great primary and back-up drive and works at amazing speeds with USB 3. That said, some complain about mounting issues and sound quality. Opinions are mixed on performance.

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9 customers mention9 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the quality of the hard drive. They mention that it is a great primary and back-up drive, it is fast, and spacious. Some say that it can back up their entire machine and that it handles the footage like it's nothing.

"...with 4k uncompressed HD video in Premiere CC and it handles the footage like its nothing...." Read more

"...I have two of these, great primary and back-up drives for all my photography. I would recommend to everyone especially if you have a Mac" Read more

"This drive is fast. And capacious. We use one to hold our pictures and music, and another for backups...." Read more

"Great Hard Drive as usual from G-tech. Do not like the power button however...." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers like the speed of the hard drive. They say it's fast, and the Firewire port is fast enough. Some mention that the hard drives works at amazing speeds with USB 3.

"...In summary, these are incredibly reliable drives, fast and tough...." Read more

"This hard drive works at amazing speeds with USB 3...." Read more

"Fast, easy to set up and looks great with my Mac. Doesn't come with a bunch of junk preprogrammed like some of the WD...." Read more

"This drive is fast. And capacious. We use one to hold our pictures and music, and another for backups...." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers find the computer drive easy to setup and use. They say it starts out great and has no hassles.

"Started out great--easy usage with my mac, no hassles. Third day of use and it starts ejecting itself, crunching inside. POS goes back...." Read more

"Fast, easy to set up and looks great with my Mac. Doesn't come with a bunch of junk preprogrammed like some of the WD...." Read more

"Good HD. Easy to setup and use. The description was to clear on what came with the order, so I ordered an extra cable that I did need." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the size of the computer drive. They mention that it's large enough to hold their audio and video media, and quiet. Some say that it has 8TB of space, which means they won't need another drive.

"...Otherwise, it's a great drive and it's certainly large enough to hold my audio and video media files...." Read more

"...Pro, can play movies and music like it is supposed to do, and with 8TB of space I will not need another additional one for a long time...." Read more

"This drive is a perfect backup system for my large MacPro. The drive is small and quiet and I can back up my entire machine...." Read more

26 customers mention16 positive10 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the computer drive. Some mention that it has been worked out and has no issues at all, it performs as needed and expected, and is very reliable. However, others say that it failed less than one week after they bought it and had to be returned. Some customers also say that the unit is faulty and sometimes it crashes.

"...The construction is robust, and the external power blocks continue to shrink...." Read more

"...; sounds happen and there is no commanding being done, then the unit is going bad...." Read more

"...It is a great tool for working with my MacBook Pro, can play movies and music like it is supposed to do, and with 8TB of space I will not need..." Read more

"...I have it for a few years already and it never gave me a single problem, it still works wonders." Read more

5 customers mention0 positive5 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the mounting of the computer drive. They mention that it's subject to weird mounting issues and other disk utility annoyances. Some customers also report that the drive sometimes refuses to mount all together. They also mention that the USB 3.0 cable is faulty and can cause random unmounting.

"...just enough time to put a few TB worth of data on it only to fail to mount one morning after working completely fine the night before..." Read more

"...the first drive that exhibited random dismounting and sometimes refused to mount all together via USB 3.0...." Read more

"...Third day of use and it starts ejecting itself, crunching inside. POS goes back...." Read more

"Subject to weird mounting issues and other disk utility annoyances. Not sure why something so robust-looking is actually so dainty...." Read more

5 customers mention0 positive5 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the sound quality of the computer drive. They mention that it makes a wee bit of a crunching sound from time to time, makes loud "clicking" noises when running, and that the motor is making strange noises. Some customers also say that the drive is faulty and starts ejecting itself, making a loud crunking noise.

"...This drive however, although still working, makes very loud and continuous "clicking" noises when turned on and engaged with my iMac...." Read more

"...spinning disc inside that reads and writes your data has a wee bit of a crunching sound from time-to-time which gives me a bit of apprehension...." Read more

"...sure no background work to the drive was being done, and the thrashing sounds continued...." Read more

"...my workplace has stated that the unit is faulty since the motor is making strange noise like cheap product...." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

Sprocket
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock Solid Performance and Quality
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2013
Capacity: 4 TBVerified Purchase
This has become my favorite brand of drive. We've used them for years in editing with both Avid and FCP and have yet to experience a failure. The construction is robust, and the external power blocks continue to shrink. I wish the Thunderbolt version weren't twice as expensive, but I presume that will get better with time.

In summary, these are incredibly reliable drives, fast and tough. I see their value in high demand applications, as well as serving as reliable archives for personal documents and memories.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Amazon returns!
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2015
Verified Purchase
This drive didn't last me a weeks worth of work. It gave me just enough time to put a few TB worth of data on it only to fail to mount one morning after working completely fine the night before (without touching or changing anything, just powering down the computer).

The drive was formatted EXFAT for use on both iOS and Windows, no strenuous work other than the initial load of data. The drive had been working on a windows 8.1 machine only so far. I'm a fanboy of both Mac and Windows btw...

Long story ahead, it could be helpful to some (skip if you want I'll summarize)

Of course I thought it was my fault first, I tried every troubleshooting technique I know and still nothing. Just when I thought I had lost 6 TB of data I got an iMac of all things to recognize it and mount the partition. So it must be all of my computers right? Well now that it worked again I tried it on my other previously attempted computers. Still NOTHING! WHAT is happening? I tried one more time on the computer I initially had the drive fail to mount on running windows 8.1, but this time I had placed the drive farther away from the computer about the extent of the USB 3 cable supplied by the manufacturer, whereas before the USB cable had plenty of slack. IT WORKED! Why?

Long story short:

After placing the drive at the extent of the usb 3 cable that comes with the drive (and also many others), so that there is tension on the cable at a 45 degree bend the drive was able to mount on my machine. ANY release of tension on the cable and the drive would unmount again. Like I said, I tried a few different usb 3 cables and firewire 800 cables in both the ports with the same result. My guess is a faulty connection of the ports inside the drive housing. Needless to say I backed up the data (all night) while a connection could still be made. Scary stuff though, really precarious connection on such an expensive drive.

Amazon is the best and returned the drive and refunded my money without any hassle, this is why I buy on Amazon and will continue to do so!

Hopefully this helps someone going through a similar problem, maybe your information is still accessible!
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Duke Wellz
2.0 out of 5 stars Loud "clicking" noises when running drive.
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2013
Capacity: 4 TBVerified Purchase
I bought this G-Tech hard drive for time machine back-up with an iMac using a USB 3.0 connection. I have bought G-Tech drives for a number of years and for the most part been satisfied (although they seem to work better with firewire than USB 3.0 in my experience). This drive however, although still working, makes very loud and continuous "clicking" noises when turned on and engaged with my iMac. I have heard these same noises in past hard drives days before they would fail - and this started right out of the box.

I am returning this drive to amazon and will hopefully find another more suitable drive for back-up.
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Dana Jae
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent drive but a little crunchy sounding
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2013
Capacity: 4 TBVerified Purchase
The spinning disc inside that reads and writes your data has a wee bit of a crunching sound from time-to-time which gives me a bit of apprehension. Otherwise, it's a great drive and it's certainly large enough to hold my audio and video media files. I work in media creation as well as teach it at a college, and I have a LOT of gigabytes that I use up on each project and my student's work as well...so I needed this big and fast drive to help my workflow.

I would give it 5 stars if not for the slight scratchy, crunching sound.
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Neil Loren Polzin
3.0 out of 5 stars meh
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2014
Verified Purchase
it does what it says. I primary keep my iTunes on the drive. and it lags often enough that iTunes can't save to it.

no issues with loosing data. but more app restarts then I like
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S. Stallard
5.0 out of 5 stars G-Raid really speeds up Lightroom 5 on Windows 7 PC
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2013
Verified Purchase
I used the G-Raid 8TB USB 3.0 system on my Windows 7 PC using Lightroom 5, Photoshop CS5 and Premiere Elements 11. Most of my photos were taken on a Nikon D800, so the .jpg and .nef files are absolutely huge. Prior to this upgrade to my system, it could take minutes to paint the thumbnail photos for a full page on my screen. Now, it's almost instantaneous.

The G-Raid is super quiet, goes into power savings mode when not in use, and seems to run very cool.

The only issue I had with mine was that their instructions for reformatting it for NTFS for a Windows system were incorrect (the default set up for the G-Raid is for a Mac). After a phone call to their very helpful support team, I got the proper instructions, and have been on the air ever sense.

I went on to purchase a second G-Raid for my other PC, and this one WAS able to follow their instructions on the web. The date codes between the two systems were 6 months apart, so perhaps they have had a change in their procedures.

Anyway, I highly recommend this system for anyone needing high performance storage solution for video or high resolution photo rendering.

BTW, my USB3.0 upgrade was the Plugable PCI Express Superspeed USB3.0 2 Port card offered by Amazon as well. That install has been perfect for both PC's.
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