G-Tech G-Safe

[Bonobo]

Im looking in to getting some kind of raid solution to back up files, the Drobo is another option, i have several of the single drives from G-Tech and have had no problems with them.

Has any one got a G-Safe? What are your thoughts on it?

Many thanks

Bonobo

[GiorgioNiro]

Buffalo external or TerraStation Drives have been working for me for years.

Or this; http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond500p.html looks very nice.

[nemophoto]

The G-Tech drives are great. I own two of the Q (fanless, convection air cooled) models. They are built rock solid, and have fast interfaces. Another photographer/friend of mine who shoots still-life owns four 1TB models. Actually, we were just chating about them today. He said he got rid of all his LaCie drives, which he used religiously, because of continual quality control problems and crashes. G-Tech cost a bit more, but seem to be truly well made.

I also have the Drobo Gen2 model. Seems to work flawlessly, and now that it has Firewire, is moderately fast. I actually use it as a network drive for all sorts of things, though primarily redundant backup for my G-Tech drives, as well as other backup and archive purposes.

I don't think you'd go wrong with either solution.

[digitaldog]

I have three G-techs, awesome drives. Expensive but well built, run cool and highly recommended.

[Bonobo]

Well... I bit the bullet and bought one. And i have to say that I'm not regretting it either. Its a seriously well built piece of kit, very easy to use and give you absolute peace of mind that your files are not about to suddenly disappear.

One thing to note: its noisy! Its got a large cooling fan on the back (which i personally don't mind, but may get a tad annoying).

Apart from that, i would highly recommend this as a simple back-up solution.