This drive looks ideal for me as an external back up drive, so I Will have an archive drive in the pc, and an external one to put in the safe:-
http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-usb
7,200 rpm, external power supply, USB3.0, and hopefully the rumour it uses the HGST NAS drive inside is true , and will match my internal HGST archive drive which is the 7,200 rpm 4TB HGST NAS drive.
My concerns are:-
1. It really seems geared for MAC users, and only talks about support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 - will it work GPT NTFS format with Windows 10?
2. Will I need a new driver, or will there be one in Windows 10?
3. Does anyone know if it does use the HGST 7,200 rpm drive inside?
4. Some external drives have some kind of soldered on controller - and if that fails you are stuffed. Ideally I would like it, if all fails, that I Can canibalise this toy, and connect a sata power and data cable and mount it in the PC. Does anyone know how this is built?
5. G-Tech do have a section on converting it to Windows (albeit Windows 8.1). I Right that all this is, is a basic hard drive, and therefore can easIly be reformatted? Or will there be complex power management stuff for the external power supply. ?
I have been burnt twice with cheap external USB drives; that should use the external power supply - but in reality blue screen, after overloading the 0.9amp USB3.0 ports power supply!
6. Has anyone here used this drive and if somwas it with Windows
7. Any views on G Tech G Drive quality.
Hope its a good one as it looks well built (albeit from the pictures) and ticks all the boxes .... If it works ... And works with Windows 10 and is relieable.
Any help advice or other recommendations welcome
But it seem great value at £148. I paid £122 for just the rwa HGST 4TB 7,200 NAS drive.
http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive-usb
7,200 rpm, external power supply, USB3.0, and hopefully the rumour it uses the HGST NAS drive inside is true , and will match my internal HGST archive drive which is the 7,200 rpm 4TB HGST NAS drive.
My concerns are:-
1. It really seems geared for MAC users, and only talks about support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 - will it work GPT NTFS format with Windows 10?
2. Will I need a new driver, or will there be one in Windows 10?
3. Does anyone know if it does use the HGST 7,200 rpm drive inside?
4. Some external drives have some kind of soldered on controller - and if that fails you are stuffed. Ideally I would like it, if all fails, that I Can canibalise this toy, and connect a sata power and data cable and mount it in the PC. Does anyone know how this is built?
5. G-Tech do have a section on converting it to Windows (albeit Windows 8.1). I Right that all this is, is a basic hard drive, and therefore can easIly be reformatted? Or will there be complex power management stuff for the external power supply. ?
I have been burnt twice with cheap external USB drives; that should use the external power supply - but in reality blue screen, after overloading the 0.9amp USB3.0 ports power supply!
6. Has anyone here used this drive and if somwas it with Windows
7. Any views on G Tech G Drive quality.
Hope its a good one as it looks well built (albeit from the pictures) and ticks all the boxes .... If it works ... And works with Windows 10 and is relieable.
Any help advice or other recommendations welcome
But it seem great value at £148. I paid £122 for just the rwa HGST 4TB 7,200 NAS drive.
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