G-Mini - Anyone excited about this?

[David P]

Hi guys,

As revealed at Expo, this G-mini looks great for an external hard drive to go with the Mac Mini:

http://www.g-technology.com/Products/pdf/G-MINI.pdf

and website:

http://www.g-technology.com/

Has anyone used their products before and how do they fair?

Best

David

 

[RGunner]

not particularly

as Macsales has had this,

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack/

for over a year.

That and G-Tech screwed me ROYALLY on a G5 SATA drive purchase, so yes, I am bitter.

 

[David P]

Hi thanks for your reply,

This machine, (I believe) is a brand new product that was revealed just recently and will be available from FEB. However, I'm don't know much about the company who makes it.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/01/16/g.tech.unveils.g.mini/

David

 

[emptyCup]

I posted this in a thread about the new Airport but it seems relevant here. LaCie has made this for a long time.

 

[iW00t]

I looked at the PDF and it seems to be the Newertech design with a SATA II interface.

Interesting, I have been in the market for one of these for quite some time now!

 

[David P]

Thanks for your replies,

The biggest concern for me is the devices getting hot, and thus the fans running constantly or frequently and being noisy.

Out of the 4:

LaCie mini Hard Drive & Hub: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462
G-Mini: http://www.g-technology.com/Products/pdf/G-MINI.pdf
Mini Mate: http://www.micronet.com/General/minimate.asp
Mini Stack V2: http://www.newertech.com/products/ministackv2.php

What are peoples thoughts on the above 4?

Dave

 

[iW00t]

Thanks for your replies,

The biggest concern for me is the devices getting hot, and thus the fans running constantly or frequently and being noisy.

Out of the 4:

LaCie mini Hard Drive & Hub: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10462
G-Mini: http://www.g-technology.com/Products/pdf/G-MINI.pdf
Mini Mate: http://www.micronet.com/General/minimate.asp
Mini Stack V2: http://www.newertech.com/products/ministackv2.php

What are peoples thoughts on the above 4?

Dave

I have owned the Newertechnology one before which worked decent. There is this heat sensor diode thing that was supposed to go onto the hard drive, but I removed it cos of the fan noise

Hard drive didn't die, works great.

I suspect all of these are really from the same factory somewhere in china, just that they are branded differently.