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G-Tech G-RAID with Thunderbolt 3 (8 TB)

G-Tech G-RAID with Thunderbolt 3

8 TB

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hanfbauer

2 years ago

My iMac, Late 2009, has Thunderbolt (2) ports. Can I connect and use the drive with the appropriate adapter?

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Anonymous

2 years ago

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Hi
I'm really not sure if this is possible: (on the adapter side), I haven't seen a Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C or (even) Thunderbolt 3 adapter (is there such a thing) or something. But that doesn't mean anything yet.
USB and USB-C will probably work somehow, but it won't be really fast... or rather "along the specs" of USB.
Question: Is a renewal of the iMac (must be a 27", if Imac and Late09) planned?

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PeterHumm

3 years ago

I partitioned both disks on the Mac with Disk Utility (half each) and then made two Raid-1s. One is reserved for TimeMachine, the second for pure data. The reverse is not possible, a Raid-1 can no longer be partitioned. TimeMachine is formatted in APFS, the second partition is formatted in MacOS extended. After a restart of the G-Raid, one of the disks is always not online. The repair took 60 hours last time. Question: Do the G-Raids not tolerate two partitions? or what is the reason? Is one of the disks already defective?

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Solotango

4 years ago

I know it's hard to answer, but how loud is the tiny fan on this G-Tech? I have a 4-bay OWC RAID enclosure and had to change the fan because the cheap hairdryer in it was unbearable, both in terms of noise and volume.

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Anonymous

4 years ago

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The quality of G-tech is worth the money: The G-raid is my third G-tech drive on the desk and all of them are quite quiet. The fan is very discreet.

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Femaleart

4 years ago

I bought the G-Raid (2x4TB or 8TB) and found that it runs almost twice as fast with the RAID-0 8TB setting! When copying under RAID-0 8TB a speed of 480MB/s is achieved, as RAID-1 (2x 4TB) only 253MB/s! Does anyone know why this is and whether there is a way to achieve the same speed under RAID-1 (2x4TB)??? Thank you very much for any information!

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nfergusson

4 years ago

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With Raid 0, the data is written to both hard disks in parallel, thus increasing the read and write speed. With the 2X4TB system, you also have the full 8 TB available. If it is configured as Raid 1, the data is mirrored. The disadvantage - apart from the loss of speed - is that "only" 4TB are available, but since the data are mirrored, the reliability is increased. This means that if one hard disk