G DRIVE PRO PORTABLE
G DRIVE PRO PRO
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G DRIVE PRO PORTABLE

With the recent launch of Sandisk Professional, it is likely that G-Tech and G-Drive will be sunsetted in the near future.The latest SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE SSD is an ultra-durable portable drive under the newly established SanDisk Professional line, which is built to tough it out in the elements. G-Tech survived as a rival to SeagateвЂ™s LaCie, supplying rugged, external, reliable storage devices and accessories to outdoor enthusiasts, prosumers and professionals. G-Tech (from which G-Drive is derived) started life as part of HGST, which was acquired by Western Digital.

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That is particularly true given the presence of the speedier and far more expensive G-Drive Pro SSD which carries a 50% premium and a near-200% improvement in speed thanks to its Thunderbolt 3 interface.ДЄ footnote about the branding. Overall though, if you discard the far cheaper alternatives from lesser known vendors, thereвЂ™s little incentive for Sandisk to drop the price of the G-Drive further.

Not only is it rugged, it also comes with a five-year warranty but fails to match SeagateвЂ™s Rescue Data Recovery Service which is now bundled for free, with quite a few mainstream external SSD (like the recently reviewed Seagate OneTouch 1TB external SSD ). The Sandisk Professional G-Drive is not your bog standard external drive. Make sure you get some cloud storage to safeguard your data, just in case. It comes with вЂњonlyвЂќ 3-year warranty but matches the rest of the specifications of the Sandisk Professional but a much lower price tag. If value for money is your primary concern, then the Teamgroup PD1000 ( $260 at Amazon) deserves your attention. As for the LaCie drive though it is more expensive and, to make things worse, far slower as well.

It uses a PIN system to decrypt the data stored and is - on paper at least - far more rugged than the G-Drive. If absolute data protection is your priority then the iStorage DiskAshur M2 rugged external SSD has to be one of the favourites. Does it justify the extra premium through the inclusion of SeagateвЂ™s bundled Rescue Data Recovery services? The juryвЂ™s out. That disqualifies the likes of the popular Samsung T7 Touch which is not waterproof.ДЇirst off is the LaCie 1TB rugged USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type C external SSD which matches the Sandisk Professional G-Drive when it comes to the warranty and performance but costs more ( $500 at Provantage) and is bulkier (and the orange color may not be to everyoneвЂ™s taste). WeвЂ™re looking for 2TB superfast, extremely rugged, IP67+ rated external solid state drives.

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It is worth noting that if you use a data recovery service, you will not void an otherwise valid limited warranty as long as you get a written verification from the service provider. You do get a five year warranty with it but you will have to send the defective drive to Sandisk at your own expense.

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Once that was done, we managed to reach a real life performance (moving a single 10GB file using Windows Explorer) of just under 400MBps while various benchmarks (AJA, CDM, ATTO and AS SSD) show that the write speeds ranged between 9MBps while the read speeds reached up to 1064. Given that the drive is HFS+ formatted out of the box, you will have to reformat the G-Drive to use it with Windows 10, which implies a detour via Computer Management to launch Disk Management and create the partition. The SSD controller and the NAND Flash memory used are unknown however, weвЂ™d assume that it shares some DNA with the SN530, Western DigitalвЂ™s entry level NVMe platform. HereвЂ™s how the Sandisk Professional G-Drive performed in our suite of benchmark tests:Д¬rystalDiskMark: 1064MBps (read) 1041MBps (write)ДЄtto: 1019MBps (read, 256mb) 962MBps (write, 256mb)ДЄS SSD: 964MBps (seq read) 956MBps (seq write)

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