Western Digital G line of drives

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Western Digital has announced some new storage devices, that's part of their G series line up. There are 3 new products, G-Drive with Thunderbolt 3, G-Raid with Thunderbolt 3, and G-Speed Shuttle XL. The G-Drive will come in with a starting capacity of 10TB and up to 12TB in the next quarter. Has 2x Thunderbolt 3 ports and 1x USB 3.1 type c gen 1 port.

On the G-Raid, it has 20TB, next quarter it goes up to 24TB. Suports RAID 0, 1, and JBOD. Gets a Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 type c gen 2 and HDMI 2.0, allowing direct connection to a 4K HDR monitor.

The 3rd one, G-Speed starts with a capacity of 80TB, 96TB in next quarter. Can do hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50. It comes in a 8 bay transportable configuration with a transfer rate of up to 2,000MB/s. There is also another version, with ev Series bay adapters, up to 72TB and has a transfer rate of 1500MB/s.

Price for them are

G-Drive: $699.95 for 10TB and $799.95 for 12 TB.

G-Raid: 20TB up to 24TB for $1,999.95 

G-Speed: 80TB up to 96TB for $10,199.95

G-Speed with ev Series adapters: $7,999.95 for 72TB

All of them will be using HGST enterprise class 7200rpm hard drives.

 

 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/232681/g-technology-announces-thunderbolt-3-and-usb-type-c-updates-to-its-product-lines

 

 

http://www.g-technology.com/

[NumLock21]

8 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

My gf has G-Spot and it dont cost anything

No, it cost your entire soul to get that G-Spot.

[Commodus]

I love how hard drive capacities have been exploding to the point where it's realistic (if still expensive) to get an external 10TB hard drive.  Remember when your best shot at that was a Drobo or rackmount array?

[ashypanda]

my heart sank, as i thought it was going to be "gamer" branded hard drives, with added RGB.

[pagani123]

5 minutes ago, ashypanda said:

my heart sank, as i thought it was going to be "gamer" branded hard drives, with added RGB.

I thought the same thing at first

[NumLock21]

inb4 lawyers from the other G team comes knocking and says

Y U copy me?! Me no let you use my keyboard and mouse *points finger* HaHa!

Then the lawyers from wd g team replies, Me no let you use my hard drive! *points back* HaHaHa!

 

Wd g: fu*k! How am i going to use puter without keyboard and mouse?!

Other g: sh*t!, How am i going to use puter without harddrive?!

 

 

[ChineseChef]

Cool to see these kinds of things coming to market.  But they seem a bit expensive.  Assuming the 96TB is just 12x 8TB HDDs, even at $300 per drive, that's only $3,600 for the drives.  Adding an extra $1,500 for the case and controller parts, that still only comes out to ~$5k.  Not sure where the 2x cost comes from.

[tlink]

do they come with the drives or without? 700 bucks for just the enclosure seems awfully steep to me, or can it be accessed by multiple users at once trough thunderbolt or something?

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8 minutes ago, tlink said:

do they come with the drives or without? 700 bucks for just the enclosure seems awfully steep to me, or can it be accessed by multiple users at once trough thunderbolt or something?

Drives are included

[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, ChineseChef said:

Cool to see these kinds of things coming to market.  But they seem a bit expensive.  Assuming the 96TB is just 12x 8TB HDDs, even at $300 per drive, that's only $3,600 for the drives.  Adding an extra $1,500 for the case and controller parts, that still only comes out to ~$5k.  Not sure where the 2x cost comes from.

It's kinda like a Bentley. People that buy these don't give a rip about how overpriced they may or may not be. $7,200 for rear seat tablet entertainment? Sure! $700 for a smoker's package? AIGHT MY DUDE!

[AHaskin14]

Can someone explain to me why they use HGST drives? Does WD own them? Are they actually better than WD drives? What's the deal?

[tlink]

1 minute ago, AHaskin14 said:

Can someone explain to me why they use HGST drives? Does WD own them? Are they actually better than WD drives? What's the deal?

hitachi is higher end than mainstream WD i think, they are owned by WD.

[AHaskin14]

Just now, tlink said:

hitachi is higher end than mainstream WD i think, they are owned by WD.

Fair enough. got kinda confused when I first saw that.

[tlink]

Just now, AHaskin14 said:

Fair enough. got kinda confused when I first saw that.

ah i found the reason, its because of "g-technology" which is a technology 'owned' by hitachi, looking at the naming scheme here that probably is the reason  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Technology

[rawrdaysgoby]

1 hour ago, AHaskin14 said:

Can someone explain to me why they use HGST drives? Does WD own them? Are they actually better than WD drives? What's the deal?

Yea WDC does own HGST and yea they are better then their mainstream ones by quite a bit according to some reports

[Maslofski]

G-drive. not to be confused with google drive