G-Dock ev review: Thunderbolt speed compromised by dock's slow hard drives
There’s no shortage of hard drives out there on the market, but that number shrinks significantly when you start looking for drives with specific features. G-Technology’s G-Dock ev is a contender with attributes that you usually don’t find in a storage system: dockable, portable drives; Thunderbolt; RAID configurations; design; and speed.
The G-Dock ev is an attractive dual-hard drive bay that ships with two SATA-3 1TB 7200-rpm hard drives. These drives can be formatted to RAID 0 or RAID 1 or JBOD configurations, depending on the user’s preference.
G-Technology touts the dock as a perfect solution for working media professionals who quickly need to have a means of storage available to them, both at their workplace and out on the field. With that in mind, G-Technology did a good job. The Dock boasts two large drive-release buttons, which allow for quick and easy swapping of the drives.
The casing for both the dock and the drives are made of heavy-duty aluminum, which provides added protection alongside its sleek and elegant design. The drives feel incredibly sturdy when held and slide easily into the Dock, although we did notice some slight scuffing on the bottom of one of the drives after repeated removals.
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