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

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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

I'm pretty sure CalDigit's Thunderbolt stuff --STILL-- isn't yet shipping. At least that's how it looks to me:
http://www.caldigit.com/products.asp#Thunderbolt1

Bummer, because their stuff seems pretty decent for the price. A friend is using the thunderbolt Promise Pegasus RAID systems. Just pinged him and he replied:
"I'm using the Pegasus R6 12TB. Getting 600 mb/s in Raid 5 via Thunderbolt. It was a great purchase."

Note that he regularly backs up. :-). Also, he works with 4K red footage and After Effects stuff a lot. Like Wilson says, Thunderbolt commands a bit of a price premium...

Jim
PS- Hey Shirley! I still have that book for you...

On May 15, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

> Hey thanks! I really appreciate the input, and I'll check out the link, and have a look at CalDigit as well.
>
> Knock on wood, my G-Raid units have been totally stable for years now, but it's always possible there was a bad run of them. Good to know.
>
> Shirley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blafarm <blafarm@yahoo.com>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 10:39 am
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Anybody working with G Raid Thunderbolt drives yet?
>
> I have no personal experience with G-Raid, but there sure are a lot of failed
> units and negative responses out there.
>
> I think Thunderbolt on a Mac platform is more than ready-for-primetime.
> However, you might want to do some searching about failed G-Tech units -- and
> maybe take a short look around the COW G-Tech forum to get a sense of what's
> happening:
>
> http://forums.creativecow.net/tags/g-technology
>
> Just my opinion, but were I to go the Thunderbolt route, I think I'd be looking
> more at products from companies like CalDigit. However, others on this list may
> disagree.
>
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@...> 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