Thunderbolt 2 desktop RAID review: G-Technology G-SPEED Studio R
RedShark by Tom Salisbury
We've bee testing the G-Tech G-SPEED Studio R, which is a desktop Thunderbolt raid system, with styling sympathetic to the Mac Pro, but which can, of course, be used with any computer supporting Thunderbolt. Tom Salisbury reports
Once I had the G - SPEED Studio R cabled up, a simple and easy job, powering up the drive was straightforward. Like most people with a new drive I went straight to website to download software to configure and update the system (although you can use system straight out the box).
Installing and configuring the drives was a breeze on my Mac Book Pro. A helpful wizard allowed for a novice to blast through without having to read a manual, or for a more technically-able user who could smoothly configure the drive into more robust reliability setting.
I settled on raid 5 with 9TB of storage (allows for 1 drive to fail and carry on working without any loss)
Once the storage side was all set-up I took it upon myself to give this drive station a thorough stress testing.
Stress testing
I moved my windows VM (Virtual Machine) onto the drive and pointed my vm software at its new location.
I was running a windows VM with Avid Media Composer 7 installed and now got to see how this compared to running against the VM on the Mac's SSD itself. read more...
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