Initial Thoughts: As much as G-Tech vows for reliability, a drive featuring Raid 0 configuration is not an ideal solution especially when you are talking about a storage solution of this magnitude. If someone with a profession in video editing is going to purchase the unit, we are certain that he would want to preserve the work and knowing that Raid 0 configuration can fail anytime with a slim possibility of recovering the data, we wouldn’t recommend a configuration of this sort.

The appearance of the storage unit is quite impressive, resembling closely to Apple’s G5 design, but that’s not even a surprise anymore. Everyone’s doing it, so why not G-Tech? That piece of information aside, the unit does look quite impressive with a cooling fan to dissipate heat. LaCie was one of the first few, if not the only, manufacturers to actually come up with a combined storage solution of 1TB. Despite the size, their storage unit wasn’t nearly as refined as the one from G-Tech.

Moreover, the support for both Firewire 400 and 800 is welcoming; as users not up to storage technologies would still be able take advantage of G-Raid drive comfortably.

The price of the G-Raid units – 320GB for $399.00, 500GB for $549.00 and 800GB for $999.00 – is pretty steep considering that you can take advantage of the exact same features at a much reasonable price tag. Of course you won’t get the exceptional looks of the product or have to go through the steps of configuring them yourself, but that’s for you to decide.

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