- Description
- Specifications
Card to Mag to Archive, Without Rebuilding the Workflow Each Shoot
A 7200 RPM Ultrastar drive rated at 250 MB/s read and 240 MB/s write, 6TB of capacity, Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.2 Gen 2 host connections, and a PRO-BLADE SSD Mag slot built into the enclosure. That last item is what changes the routine: footage captured to a Mag in the field drops straight into the bay, and it can be offloaded to the spinning disk or cut directly off the Mag without a separate reader on the desk. Western Digital ships it under the SanDisk Professional label for Mac and PC alike. Compare it against the rest of the hard drives range at Island Electrical Supply.
Common Use Cases
- Video and photo production offloading camera media at the end of a shoot day.
- Edit bays that want enterprise-class spinning capacity and modular SSD speed in one enclosure rather than two devices.
- Project-based archiving, where a finished job stays together on a single drive instead of being split across cards.
- Mixed Mac and PC facilities, since both platforms are supported over Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.2 Gen 2.
Notable Features
- PRO-BLADE SSD Mag slot: accepts a Mag for fast offload or for editing directly from the module.
- Enterprise-class Ultrastar mechanism spinning at 7200 RPM behind the 6TB capacity.
- Dual host interfaces: Thunderbolt 3 for speed, USB 3.2 Gen 2 for broad compatibility.
- Gray aluminum-look desktop enclosure measuring 8.3 by 5.2 by 3 inches at 3.68 lb.
What Is a G-DRIVE Used For?
G-DRIVE is the professional external storage line that began at G-Technology and now ships under Western Digital's SanDisk Professional brand, which is why the box carries one name and the manufacturer record carries another. The drives are built for content production rather than general backup: high sustained transfer rates for moving large video files, enterprise-class mechanisms rated for continuous work, and on this PROJECT model a PRO-BLADE Mag bay so field capture media docks directly into the same enclosure that holds the archive. For a shooter or editor the practical use is consolidating one job onto one drive, from ingest through edit to storage.
