It's not pretty, and some of you are probably cringing at the idea, but it's extremely popular. So who is this drive for? I think this is actually an outstanding competitor to those who use what I like to call the 'LaCie Method.' The LaCie Method of storage is keeping 10-20 LaCie drives on hand, labeled in a closet stacked in a shoebox, as a backup solution. Weirdly, tested faster on USB 3.0 to USB-C than it is with USB-C to USB-C Not super fast to begin with, and doesn't hit promised speed of 140 MB/s USB-C connectivity, but ships with a converter cable for USB 3.0įast enough for a long term storage drive at 130.1 MB/s read and 123.5 MB/s write

If asked today I would suggest the G-Drive Mobile over the Slim, and actually the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD over both (SanDisk and G-Technology are part of the same company now anyway). Speaking of the Mobile, G-Technology offers it as another SSD that also caps out at 1TB of capacity and reads at a nearly-the-same speed of 519.5 MB/s as the Slim in our testing and costs $270 for the maximum capacity. Based on the larger capacity no longer being available and with the success of the Mobile, it appears G-Tech may be phasing the Slim out. The 512GB version is still available for $180. To recap, the G-Drive Slim uses an internal SSD to power a pretty-darn-fast max read speed of 526 MB/s, but caps out at a terabyte of space (which is no longer for sale at B&H) or half that at 512GB. Compared to both the Slim and the Mobile SSD, it actually finds its niche quite well next to them. To add a bit more confusion to that, G-Technology also released the G-Drive Mobile USB-C, yet another small and portable drive utilizing traditional HDD over the more expensive SSD options. As you can see, the naming conventions are similar and looking just at those you may think all those devices are at least similar when in reality, they all are quite different. In the past couple years we've evaluated the G-Drive Mobile SSD and the G-Drive Slim SSD USB-C, and those are separate from the G-Drive Pro SSD and the G-Drive Thunderbolt 3 which are larger, desktop backup solutions. Keeping the many different G-Technology portable drives straight just based on their names can be a real challenge.

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