Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Anybody working with G Raid Thunderbolt drives yet?

Shirley,

I have the 8 TB G-Raid thunderbolt drive as my primary editing drive now
- just got it a few weeks ago. I use it with a 2011 MBP.

I connect the drive directly to the MBP, and then loop through the drive
to my second monitor (an Apple Cinema Display using a TB => DVI adapter.
The monitor works whether the drive is powered up or not.

In general, Media Composer (V6) runs much snappier now - I haven't tried
a heavily layered timeline yet. I am starting to fool around with
Premiere Pro CS6 using media from the drive. Haven't tried FCP7.

So far so good - everything runs fine. Copying files from eSata drives
to the TB drive happens pretty fast.

The drive is reasonably quiet, but runs a bit warm to the touch.

The only drawback is if you need to give the drive to, for example, a
finishing house that only has Mac Pros - there are no other I/O ports
besides TB. I suppose you could use a TB => USB3 or FW adapter (haven't
tried that tho).

HTH,

Rich Ford
San Diego

On 5/15/13 9:09 AM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Soon, I will need to add to my home system's storage capabilities, and
> when I went to Amazon to look around, I found myself eyeing the
> Thunderbolt compatible G-Raid 4TB. Anybody tried this series of drives
> yet? Is it still to soon to jump on the Thunderbolt bandwagon?
>
> TIA
>
> Shirley
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>


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