Review: G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle T3 Provides Fast and Flexible Storage
Review from Videomaker.com
The G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle with Thunderbolt 3 provides portable, fast and flexible storage with the reliability of a hardware RAID controller.
The G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle with Thunderbolt 3 is fast, stout, and highly configurable, but it all comes at a price. The Shuttle is the little brother to the Shuttle XL, with the big difference being the number of drive bays. The Shuttle has four bays instead of eight. The Shuttle can be configured from 16 Terabytes (TB) all the way up to 48TB. It comes pre-configured in RAID 5 in HFS+ for MacOS 10.12+ systems and will require being formatted to exFAT or NTFS for use with a PC.
For this review, we’ll be looking at the 24TB version of the Shuttle, loaded with four enterprise class 6TB HGST Ultrastar 7K6000 7200rpm HDD drives. With two Thunderbolt 3 (T3) ports, it can be daisy chained to up to five additional T3 machines. It can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10. There is even an option for a two bay version with two EV bay adaptors. With those adapters, you’re able to offload, backup and save content using EV Series drives or readers like the Red mini mag reader, CFast 2.0 reader and Atomos SSD reader….
…The G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle is a smaller and cuter version of the Shuttle XL. The cost of the Shuttle is high, but it offers a great product for the price. The benefit from a hardware RAID cannot be understated, but it will cost you. The transfer speeds were good enough to work off of regardless of the type of footage you are working with. If you need large storage with redundancy, want it portable, and need dependency, you should strongly consider the Shuttle….[continue reading]
