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Hitachi's First 4TB Drive

G-Technology™ has introduced the first two-drive 8TB G-RAID™ external drive and a new 4TB drive. With fast throughput, both are ideally suited for Post Production.

Helping empower creativity beyond its current limits, the 8TB G-RAID drive makes digital production faster with super-sized, affordable storage that gives post editors and supervisors a highly competitive edge. 

G-RAID with Thunderbolt - More than Just High-Speed RAID

Not only does the G-RAID Thunderbolt showcase data transfer rates up to 10 Gbps, it shows sustained throughput  handling multi-stream compressed HD workflows including REDCODE, DVCPro HD, XDCAM HD and ProRes 422 . At 8TB it is also the highest capacity, two-drive, RAID 0 external storage device in the world, ideally suited to  storing hours of clips, composites, digital intermediate (DIs), proofs and effects.

Connected to an Apple MacBook® Pro, the G-RAID solution enables a portable editing workstation on the road or the studio. With blazing speed and huge capacity, it is possible to transfer, capture, process or edit virtually anywhere!

All G-RAID drives come pre-configured in a RAID-0 for maximum throughput and are specifically designed for video editing with excellent cooling and air flow. Its sleek, all-aluminum enclosure acts as a heat sink, keeping the drives cool, while a super-quiet smart fan makes it a perfect fit in any audio or video post production environment.  The G-RAID solution is ready  out of the box for Mac OS X systems. It appears as a single, large, fast disk drive. The G-RAID solution also supports Windows systems with a simple reformat.

Hitachi GST’s 4TB Hard Drives

Leveraging the high-quality and time-to-market strength of Hitachi GST, G-Technology by Hitachi will be incorporating Hitachi’s 4TB 7,200 RPM drives into its G-RAID and G-DRIVE solutions.

With ever increasing capacity needs with the use of high-quality HD video formats, G-Technology’s 4TB-based solutions enable greater return on investment. By using the highest capacity drives, G-Technology customers save by lowering the cost per GB of storage as compared to having the same total capacity using multiple lower capacity external drives. In addition, customers benefit from needing fewer external drives, which take up space and power, and create cable clutter.

“We understand the process of creation, and today, digital video editing is no longer facility-driven – It’s driven by the places and lifestyles of the people doing the work,” said Steve Pereira, vice president, Hitachi GST, Europe Middle East and Africa. “Our G-RAID Thunderbolt demo connected to a MacBook Pro shows how our customers can get lightning speed and huge capacity in a single RAID 0 storage solution to easily edit anywhere. Built like a tank, our G-RAID solution has been the cornerstone of our business, and we look forward to bringing our Thunderbolt-based family and 4TB-based solutions to the market. With G-Technology’s high quality, high performance commitment, our customers can continue to focus on their work and not on their equipment.”

G-Technology will begin shipping its 4TB-based G-RAID and single-drive G-DRIVE solutions with eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 via cable) and USB 2.0 ports in October 2011. First in a family of solutions, the company’s Thunderbolt 4TB-based G-RAID and G-DRIVE solutions will ship in Q4.

For more information, go to www.G-Technology.eu