G-Speed ES External Raid solutions provide professional content creators with outstanding performance, high storage capacity and fail- safe operation at an unprecedented low cost per gigabyte. The compact and whisper quiet G-Speed ES boasts a 3GB eSATA interface and features four hot- swappable Hitachi Ultrastar 7200 RPM SATA drives. When used with the G-Tech PCIe 4x Raid controller, a single G-Speed ES supports up to 4 simultaneous streams of ProRes422 HQ or  1 stream of uncompressed 1080/60i. As many as four G-Speed ES enclosures can be attached to a single workstation providing up to 48TB of high-performance Raid protected storage. The G-Tech PCIe 4x Raid controller supports Raid 0, 1, 5 and JBOD, and is configured and monitored via a full featured web GUI. Storage for multi-stream compressed HD production has never been easier or more affordable!

Storage
Number of Hard Drives Supported: 4

Number of Hard Drives Installed: 4

Total Hard Drive Capacity Supported: 12 TB

Total Hard Drive Capacity Installed: 8 TB

Controllers
RAID Supported: Yes

I/O Expansions
Number of Total Expansion Bays: 4

Interfaces/Ports
Host Interface: eSATA

Physical Characteristics
Height: 6.5"

Width: 4.9"

Depth: 8.3"

Weight (Approximate): 12.50 lb