It is also more expensive than the G-Drive mobile Pro, although not by a significant amount.
The X5 from Samsung is the fastest external drive (non-RAID) on the market and while it might not be the most rugged looking out there, it can still withstand drops of up to two meters – and there’s a 2TB model available. There are no other Thunderbolt 3 storage devices that come with such a long warranty and have been tested to a three meter drop if you find any, do let us know. It’s aimed at the videographer on the move who has to face Mother Nature and adverse terrains, its small capacity meaning that it can only be a temporary abode for digital video footage before it’s transferred elsewhere.
#G drive pro pro
The mobile Pro targets a niche within a niche. Bear in mind that you will need to reformat the drive in order to use it on Windows 10, and that lower capacity SSDs tend to perform worse than bigger models. The device was warm to the touch when in use, but not to the level of anything unpleasant. A single 100GB file took 137 seconds to be shuttled from the host PC’s drive to the mobile Pro, which is faster than the Patriot Evlvr or the OWC Envoy Pro EX, but slower than the Samsung X5. AS SSD and Atto benchmarks reported slower read speeds (between 2.1 and 2.4Gbps) with write speeds hovering between 1.8 and 2.1Gbps. Write speeds were understandably slower at 2.3Gbps with our test machine, a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga.
As to G-Tech’s claim that this drive can hit 2.8Gbps, we found it to be true, as CrystalDiskMark recorded a staggering 2,830Mbps during our tests. Not surprisingly, it is available in 512GB and 1TB versions – again with no 2TB offering.
#G drive pro Pc
It is likely that the storage components used in the G-Drive mobile Pro are the same as the Western Digital PC SN720, an NVMe drive that has a five-year warranty and read speeds of up to 3.4Gbps. Here’s how the G-Drive mobile Pro SSD performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 2,830MBps (read) 2,295MBps (write)Ītto: 2,380MBps (read, 256mb) 2,110MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 2,300MBps (seq read) 1,778MBps (seq write) PerformanceĬuriously, the drive is identified as the SanDisk Extreme Pro by CrystalDiskInfo, although that shouldn’t really matter given that they are both part of the same holding company: Western Digital Corporation.