6 TB G-Raids Now Available

[joe hedge]

They're not on G-Tech's web site yet but Melrose Mac here in H'Wood has them and they're on Amazon. Any opinions/experience using the 3 TB Hitachi drives these G-Raids use?

[Jason Diamond]

whats the price on those 6TB's?

[Eric Santiago]

Which model are they under? GRAID2? mini?

[Tom.Wong]

huge platters waiting to fail...

[Michael Olsen]

whats the price on those 6TB's?

Listed at $633.62 on Amazon.

huge platters waiting to fail...

Exactly my thoughts...that's a lot to lose, too.

[Dustin Cross]

For on set I still prefer the 500GB G Drives. Gets drives off set. If I need more space I get a Raid 5 set-up like the G Speed Q or OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2.

Dusty

[Tom.Wong]

those qx2's are the best bang for the buck! got two of them myself, simple, easy, reliable, cheap. decent speeds.. I'm a 1 tb guy myself, i find it the best balance in performance and size.

these 3 tb drives raided at 0, with such huge ass platters, it's a disaster waiting to happen. It took this long just to make a decent 2 tb drive, and they are still slow as fark. just not worth it IMHO. I think HD companies have to concentrate harder on driving prices down on SSD's and increasing capacities.

[Dustin Cross]

I prefer the Qx2 also. Like that is has a rotary knob to set raid level on the drive. You can easily look and know what it is set at. With the software solution for the G Speed Q you have nothing telling you. Plus the Qx2 is much cheaper.

Dusty

[Jeff Kilgroe]

these 3 tb drives raided at 0, with such huge ass platters, it's a disaster waiting to happen. It took this long just to make a decent 2 tb drive, and they are still slow as fark. just not worth it IMHO. I think HD companies have to concentrate harder on driving prices down on SSD's and increasing capacities.

Totally agree. Although, the latest WD 2TB RE4 drives are pretty snappy and are proving to be very reliable. ...Have 12 of them running in two RAIDs for nearly 3 months now. Haven't lost one or encountered any errors.

The 3TB HDDs are super slow, but actually seem to be pretty reliable. I bought one when they first released and another last month and I've been using them for various things. Both are WD Greens (I think that's all that's available anyway) and they work very well as external HDDs. But I wouldn't trust my only copy of anything on one.