Best Portable Hard Drive For Mac

Aug 9
08:22

2011

Talha Azeem

Talha Azeem

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Looking for best portable hard drive for mac? You've come to the right place. Here are some features of hard drive available for mac.

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If you're looking for a high end performance best portable hard drive for Mac,Best Portable Hard Drive For Mac Articles it's time for you to know the G-Drive Mobile USB 500GB. This drive is a USB powered, no AC adapter is needed, just plug it and you're ready to go. This drive supports the USB interface only, if you don't need the FireWire and eSATA, this is perfect for you. 

A 500GB of disk space is provided with this drive to accommodate your important files such as movies, MP3's, digital photos and programs. This is made of 2.5 inch Hitachi hard drive with 5,400rpm speed. An eye appealing design that comes in all white aluminum casing, this serves as an additional heatsink that cools down during intense operations.

The G-Drive has a small dimension of 5 x 3.2 x 0.8 inch that weights only 8.8 ounces, this is just a pocket size that is so easy to carry anywhere you want. On the front, there's an LED that indicates the drive operation, on top of it you can notice a big "G" logo. At the back of the drive, a single USB port is provided for interface.

The G-Drive technology has earned its reputation, after Hitachi bought the company, they are dedicated to develop a high end performance to offer the users what they looking for. The drive is preformatted with HFS+ for Mac users and a Time Machine ready. This drive also supports the plug and play features for your maximum ease of usage.

What's inside the Box? In addition to the G-Technology G-drive USB itself, a USB 2.0 connector in white color with 0.6 meter long cable is also provided. They offer a generous 3-year warranty in contrast to only 1 year with its competitor.

Performance

The good thing about this drive is that, it has a built-in 8MB cache that tremendously adds to its performance. It reduces the latency time and transfers the files at faster speed. In a 1GB file copy test, it finishes only at 37 seconds.

In the duplication test, it requires to duplicate the 1GB folder. The G-Drive shows another impressive performance here, it finishes the task at only 56 seconds, a 10 minutes faster than the LaCie Rikiki and 4 seconds faster than the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex.

In the Low memory Photoshop test, this drive shows another great performance as we expected. This drive finished at 4 minutes and 20 seconds, 6 seconds faster than the LaCie Rikiki, this time it lags slightly behind the Seagate FreeAgent. With all these results without a doubt, the G-Drive is one of the fastest USB portable drives.

During the test, slightly heat is noticeable when touches the casing and a relatively low noise, a slight hum can be heard on the drive itself.      

Conclusion

The G-Technology G-Drive mobile shows a solid performance while beating other high priced competitors. If you need only a USB portable external hard drive for Mac and don't care much of the FireWire, this is would definitely a perfect choice. The only drawback I see in here is the lack of bundled software, G-Technology don't see any usage for these and very straight forward while others adding it up to bump up the price.  

The G-Drive earns an almost perfect rating on reviews for those who personally owns it. A fast and very dependable drive that comes in a very affordable price, there is no more excuses to have this wonderful drive on your list.