How to configure your G-Technology G RAID hard drive! What is RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 6

In this video we go over How to configure your G-Technology G RAID external drive to optimize your workflow.

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What is a RAID drive? RAID, stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Drives. It is a type of encryption format that can be configured to optimize workflows.

The G RAID external hard drive can be configured in a RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD. It comes out of the box setup as a RAID 0 but the user can setup their G RAID to their desired format. If you are going to be using the G RAID drive for video editing you may consider setting your hard drive to RAID 0 this setup provides ultimate hard drive speeds. If you are going to be using the G RAID hard drive as a backup solution you may consider setting your drive for RAID 1 or mirrored data redundancy. This is the Best external hard drive setup for photos because if one drive of the RAID array fails the data will remain intact in the uncorrupted drive.

The G RAID hard drive is also configured for Thunderbolt 3, allowing for daisy chaining up to 6 devices. It is also backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 2 using the Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adaptor. The G raid hard drive is also compatible with MAC and Windows.

The G RAID Drive Thunderbolt 3 HDMI, allows for an additional video display.

The G Raid Thunderbolt 3 drive comes in a RAID Array of 8 TB, 12 TB, 20 TB and 28 TB.

If you need a bigger capacity drive for configuring RAID Arrays of RAID 5 and RAID 6. The G-Technology G-Speed Shuttle XL Thunderbolt 3 is a powerful backup storage solution that can be set to RAID, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 & RAID 50. You can also get this drive in larger storage capacities of 32 TB, 48 TB, 64 TB, 80 TB, 96 TB, and 112 TB.

G-Technology G|RAID Video transcript:

Intro (What is a RAID drive) :
In this video I will show you how to configure your G-Raid to optimize your workflow!

Alright...First things first, what is RAID? RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and is the building blocks of redundancy in data storage drives. RAID 0 is specifically used to optimize speed and capacity for ultimate performance, or RAID 1 to mirror data onto another disk for safer backups . So lets go a little more in depth into the different RAID settings.

Scene 2 (Types of Raid hard drives) :

RAID 0 or striped, this setup distributes different parts of an individual piece of data into several drives for maximum speed. It is specifically used as drive for video editing or content editing because data is distributed without redundancy. If one drive fails, all data will be lost. This particular drive comes setup as a RAID 0 by default.

RAID 1 or Mirrored, is used for maximum backup protection but you lose half of your drives capacity. All data in the drive is distributed and copied twice. So if you have a drive like this G-technology 8TB you will really have 4TB of storage capacity because all your data is being mirrored.

RAID 5 or Single Drive Redundancy, This particular G-tech drive requires a minimum of 3 disks. So it would not work on the smaller, 2 drive G| Raid drives. This would go well with a drive like the G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle, where there are at least 4 hard drive disks. If one fails then 3 of the 4 disks will be fine.

RAID 6 or 2 Drive Redundancy, this is a step up from Raid 5. This particular setup requires 4 disks. If 2 of those drives fail then the 2 remaining are safe.

Scene 3 (How to format a g-raid hard drive) :

Before we start keep in mind that changing the RAID configurations or reformatting the drive may purge all your data. The G-Technnology G|RAID can be formatted for both Windows and MacOS, and comes pre-formatted for MacOS straight out of the box. All you have to do is select HFS+ if you are using Mac OS like me, or NTFS if you are using Windows. Comment below if you would like me to do a tutorial on just Windows formatting. If you need to work cross-platform, ExFat will work for both Mac OS and Windows.

I am currently using the G-Technology G|RAID drive 8TB drive. This one comes with two individual 4TB drives. Like most G-Technology Thunderbolt Drives you can daisy chain up to 6 drives via it’s thunderbolt connection. I will put the link below so you can get this drive for yourself. This drive comes with Thunderbolt 3— which allows for daisy chaining up to 5 more devices.

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