As any photographer or videographer will know, storage space can be a pain, especially when it comes to working on external drives. It’s great to have a lightning fast SSD drive to work from, but what if run out of space on your internal drive or have to work from a backup? Even the fastest editing rigs can be crippled by slow transfer speeds, and that’s where G-Technology wants to step in.

The company’s newest stand-alone SSD storage device can handle transfer speeds of up to 540MB per second, doesn’t need an external power source and comes in 500GB and 1TB variants.

Known as the G-Drive slim, the drive uses a standard USB 3. 1 interface and comes with a USB Type-C to USB Type-A connector in case your computer doesn’t support the newer standard. It comes preformatted for Mac computers, but can also be formatted to work with PCs

The drives will retail for US$229. 95 (500GB) and US$379. 95 (1TB), and can be ordered now. Silver or Space Grey finishes are available, although the Space Grey version is an Apple Store exclusive.

2016-11-2 03:00