G-Technology: Studio Line of External RAIDs With Thunderbolt 2 …

WD’s HGST’s G-Technology announced its Studio line, the G-RAID Studio and G-SPEED Studio.

The Studio family comes in new sleek black enclosure for high-performance computers and workstations. It features multiple RAID options, removable enterprise 7,200rpm drives, 20GB/s Thunderbolt 2 interfaces, and 6TB HDDs for pre- and post-production workflows.

G-SPEED Studio
The G-SPEED Studio with hardware RAID is a four-bay Thunderbolt 2 storage solution that supports user selectable RAID-0, 1, 5 and 10 for flexibility and speed. With its built-in RAID controller, it is not tied to a single workstation and can be transported and used on a Mac laptop or desktop in the studio, edit bay or on the road. It boasts sustained transfer rates of up to 660MB/s in RAID-0 and can be daisy-chained via dual Thunderbolt 2 ports. It ships with four removable enterprise HDDs, designed to support multi-stream compressed 4K and 2K workflows. In a RAID-5 (data redundant) configuration, it can handle up to 30 hours of 4K footage in ProRes 4444 and can edit three streams of compressed 4K. The G-SPEED Studio with enterprise hardware RAID will be available in May for an MSRP of $3,599.95 for 24TB, $2,699.95 for 16TB and $2,199.95 for 12TB.

G-RAID Studio
The G-RAID Studio is a high-performance storage system with hardware RAID, enabling digital content-creation workflow. User-selectable in RAID-0, RAID-1 or JBOD, it features Thunderbolt 2 technology and has transfer rates up to 360MB/s for editing high-resolution photos or multiple streams of compressed 2K and 4K projects. It ships with two removable enterprise 7,200rpm HDDs for total capacities up to 12TB in a sleek black enclosure. It will be available in May for a MSRP of $1,299.95 for 12TB, $849.95 for 8TB and $699.95 for 6TB.

“From lightning-fast transfer speeds to modern designs, we’ve approached our Studio series with the needs of today’s editors, photographers, filmmakers and musicians in mind,” said Mike Williams, VP and GM, G-Technology. “The Studio series is built to handle the demands of 2K and 4K workflows, and represents the next level in our constant evolution to better support professional workflows with performance, style and reliability.”

All products in Studio line are plug-and-play for Mac and come with a three-year limited warranty.