The 500GB G-DRIVE slim Portable USB Hard Drive from G-Technology is the perfect hard drive for someone on the go. This sliver of a drive fits right in your pocket, allowing you to travel around with 500GB of storage space - ideal for important documents, photos, and other digital files. G-DRIVE slim is formatted for your Mac right out of the box, and is Time Machine ready. It can also be used with Windows systems; however, it requires initialization first. Made with a lightweight aluminum enclosure, this plug and play storage device makes portability look good.
| Performance | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB |
| Interface | USB 2.0 |
| Drive Speed | Not specified by the manufacturer |
| Buffer | Not specified by the manufacturer |
| Average Seek Time | Not specified by the manufacturer |
| Data Rate | Up to 480Mb/s |
| System Requirements |
System running with Mac OS 10.5 or later Requires initialization for use with Windows systems After initialization, the drives is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 One available USB 2.0 port |
| General | |
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| Mounting | Horizontal |
| Power Requirements | USB bus-powered |
| Environmental Requirements | Not specified by the manufacturer |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 5.06 x 3.23 x 0.39" / 12.86 x 8.2 x 0.99 mm |
| Weight | 0.33 lb / 0.15 kg |
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Worked seamlessly with my MacBook Time Machine.
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Our drives are for client raw files and camera files storage.
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This hard drive is so slin! It really holds up to its name! It isvety lightweight also! I love this thing! It works like a champ too! I am a photography student so I needed something that would hold a ton of files and this little thing is perfect! I have no complaints about it. For only $100 you can't go wrong with this one.
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This is affordable, compact and convenient. Works well for transporting video between computers. Unfortuantely it was formatted for a MAC and I'm having trouble transferring a file to my PC.
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Using it for backup and additional storage. Good amount of storage for its size. Large files take a little time to transfer, but that's to be expected with USB. For what it's worth, a great value on a trusted brand.
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First, let me thank B&H for excellent service. They shipped the G-Drive the day I placed the order, and it arrived a day earlier than promised. Wow.
The G-Drive is a compact, good-looking device, and truly plug-and-play with Time Machine. It backed up my 19.6GB of files quickly and easily, and has been faithfully backing up everything new in the 10 days since then. It makes no sound at all. So far, it's great.
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Used them for daily back-up on a long shoot. Pretty quick file transfer. Sleek design and a good cost.
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its compact, ready to use, totally worth the money. and its nice and sleek. i dig aesthetics when it comes to technology, GDrive has it.
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small, compact-no power source than usb cable to computer. the mac tells it what to do. ready to go right out of the box.ez backup for computer. this is an excellent companion purchase i've made with my mac.
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This is a very good product. Its exactly what I needed to back-up my info on my macbook pro. It hooked right into the time machine program, and was brainless to use.
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Use it with Macbook Pro.
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Love this drive! This is the second one I've bought because I needed another no-nonsense, easy-to-use. back up drive for my mac and this does the job easily and painlessly for me (and looks cool, too).
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Great product from Hitachi.
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These drives seem to work seamlessly and are so sleek and easy to package up. Purchased with their portable cases that zip up making them even more appealing to use. These will replace all my Lacie Rugged drives.
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hands down this is the best external 500gb that was under $100. I bought AND returned 3 external hdd's before I made the decision to get the "more expensive" one. I feel safe that my data is on a quality hdd and NOT on some dirty $50 [...]drive. go ahead and get the less expensive junk and and then pay for repairs, or watch it fail and then you're screwed out of your data, and you need a new drive. i use this on win7 flawlessly. shop wisely!
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good portable backup drive
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