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💾 G-Technology 10TB G-DRIVE - High-Speed Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C External Hard Drive for Desktop - Silver | 0G05378-1 Review

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Digital Storage Capacity10000 GB
Compatible DevicesDesktop
BrandG-Technology
SeriesG-DRIVE with Thunderbolt 3
Connectivity TechnologyUSB, Thunderbolt
Hard Disk Size10 TB
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Description of 💾 G-Technology 10TB G-DRIVE - High-Speed Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C External Hard Drive for Desktop - Silver | 0G05378-1

Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports and a single USB-C port with support for USB 3.1 Gen 1. Daisy chaining for up to 5 additional devices. High-speed data transfers. Solid, all-aluminum case makes for durability and stylish looks.

Reviews

Global ratings 9
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Revainrating 1 out of 5

DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS 10

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 with Windows 10 and bought a 4TB G drive with Thunderbolt 3. The drive is formatted for Mac, but the display says it's easy to reformat in the window. It's not easy to reformat. The drive does not appear as a drive on the computer. The G-Technology website says this is a common problem and has instructions on how to fix it. I logged in as an administrator and followed the instructions, but the drive still doesn't show up in Disk Management. I was trying to…

Pros
  • Handy thing
Cons
  • 0

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Best 8TB Thunderbolt 3 Drive

Great Thunderbolt 3 Drive! I hung it on the back of my 27" Retina 5K iMac and it's split into a 2TB volume for Time Machine backups and a 6TB volume for my offline music file storage. Just perfect! Great work! A slight click even when not actively reading/writing but I guess that's what you get with normal spindle drives Also use a good quality SHORT Thunderbolt 3 cable for maximum transfer speed, 0.5 meter is best.

Pros
  • Feels Good
Cons
  • Write Later

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Best kept refrigerated

With no fans and poor ventilation, it's so hot I keep using ice packs to cool it down. Lots of money and bad design. I wish I had never bought it. I had to buy additional drives and cases (with fan) because I don't trust this device anymore. This was the first G-Tech CD I bought and will be my last.

Pros
  • Durable finish
Cons
  • Long wait

Revainrating 2 out of 5

4 hard drives out of 50 failed

I want to believe in these hard drives. Looks great, build quality is great. To date I have bought about 50 of these from Revain and B&H. Mostly 8TB drives, some 6TB. Unfortunately, I see a high bounce rate. 3 have been returned to the manufacturer and I just found out that the 4th drive failed in the field today. And out of 4 hard drives that failed, 2 caused a kernel panic. Myself and another colleague have observed this behavior on several different Macs.

Pros
  • Cool product
Cons
  • Quality

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Plug and Play: External Hard Drives

I've been using G-Drives for years with no problems. I've been migrating data for probably 10-15 years and several computers have used these drives for backup. I wish G people had more ports on cheaper drives. but well. This connected to my new Mac in about 10 minutes and immediately backed up all my data. (especially the ones I carried over from previous discs since you can only boot your Mac from the reverse chain). The cloud may be the future, but it's still nice to have a direct, handy…

Pros
  • So far so good
Cons
  • So far so good

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Thunderbolt 3 ports are both dead on arrival.

Received for a specific video project, 12 episodes unedited. wanted to connect it to my 8TB G-Raid. Vain. I use a CalDigit TB3+ Dock for ALL peripherals, a Thunderbolt cable to connect to a 2020 16" MacBook Pro and nothing. I use the cable they gave me. I paid $200 for TB3 ports and they will not even mounted. The disc doesn't even spin. It's like they're just holes in the chassis that don't even connect together inside. I took everything out, just plugged the drive DIRECTLY into the MacBook…

Pros
  • Beautiful
Cons
  • Working speed

Revainrating 4 out of 5

DO NOT BUY IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS 10

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 with Windows 10 and I bought a 4TB G drive with Thunderbolt 3 it says in the ad that it can be easily reformatted in Windows. It's not easy to reformat. The drive does not appear as a drive on the computer. The G-Technology website says this is a common problem and has instructions on how to fix it. I logged in as an administrator and followed the instructions, but the drive still doesn't show up in Disk Management. I was trying to submit a case on the…

Pros
  • Pleasant
Cons
  • Not bad but...

Revainrating 2 out of 5

No noise, speed or heat issues, photo storage

Weekly review. Have had additional GRAid floppy disks for years with no problem, which prompted me to switch to floppy disks. I have decided to add disks to another system without raid. Shooting over 1TB per year with LR and PS. Only use to save photos. Bought Thunderbolt due to its enterprise quality and daisy chain capability. The speed is reasonable and can be processed by the HDD with "probably" minimal latency - not yet enough to move the current process file to the internal SSD, which is…

Pros
  • Looking forward to
Cons
  • Expensive insurance

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Reliable. Do not be shy. Get one.

I was skeptical, but after a few months I'm very satisfied. Thunder Clap is great. This required an adapter and I went with the 6" cable which adds $100 to the cost but now I can share 2 USB ports with a second HDD port. Since I have 2 Thunderbolt displays, I can now get 5 inches from my faster i7 CPU and a second monitor connected to the i5 that doesn't render 4K smoothly. I used the second USB port on the back of the display for this. The hard drive works perfectly. I have an SSD hard drive…

Pros
  • Done
Cons
  • Annoyed