Well, As you all know, I like my photography, and, as such have the inherent problem of "Disk Space" ....People want larger prints, people want uncompressed tiffs, people want!.. So, space is a big issue these days, for me. I carry around my current photo library on my MacBook Pro but that's a little dangerous, I mean... One false move and someone is running off down the road with your £1500 laptop - and, more importantly, to me, my photo library!.. So, I have backups, I have backups of those backups, But what about on the road? How secure are your photos?
Well, I've decided that what I need is a solidly built disk, with a fan that takes power from your fire wire bus and is nice and small. I've found just that in the G-Tech G-Raid Mini 500gb external drive. The little guy certainly packs quite a punch! With Firewire 400 and 800 as well as USB2, there will be no connection issues, though, you will only get away with using it "bus powered" with the Firewire 800 port. It does come with a little power supply if you need to use it, but I have FW800 on the mac, so, that's sorted that. It is, as the name suggests, a raid (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) device, though, in this case is raid 0 (zero) which is striped. Raid Zero only really offers increased performance, rather than redundancy, as if one disk dies, you lose the lot.
The drive has a fan in the base of it and I can report that it does a fine job!.. I copied my current 2008 Adobe Lightroom database and raw photo library across (All 300gb of it) and it didn't even raise a sweat.. Didn't even start blowing warm air! I was most impressed, as i guess you all know - heat kills drives.
The drive comes with all the cables you could want, a driver CD and a leather case for toting it around.
It looks sexy and it works really well...
Have a look at some images direct form the G-Tech website HERE
Highly recommended.
4 comments:
how much did you pay for it?
£233.00... Not a bad price - better than Digital Garage, though, they offer a good service. Do Root6 sell these?
Sime
looks like a nice unit but £233 is a little steep for 500gb imo.....nice rugged looking device though! and bus powered is nice...especially with your macbook portable setup!
It's a good little drive, I agree though - £233 is a bit steep for 500gb.. It is 500 very fast gig though... (Raid Zero) ...so, actually two disks. But yeah, a touch exy
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