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    G-Tech loses hundreds (thousands) of RMA Drives?

    Anyone else run into this? I bought a G-Technology G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C 6TB drive 3 months ago. One day it had dismounted and shut down. No signs of life. I called G-Tech and they gave me an RMA and told me that I'd get a replacement 3-5 days after they received my faulty...
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    Backing up using firewire

    Can anyone please help. I back up on to two separate cloud servers but want the reassurance of using time machine to back up on to an external hard drive. Reasonable wish I think. I have a five year old G-technology 1tb mini external hard drive. This has fire wire ports. The macbook air does...
  3. Surfsuprob

    How to backup external hdd to NAS daily?

    I am wondering how to setup an external hdd to backup to a nas? I have narrowed it down to a Synology DS1515+ with HGST 3tb hdds for the NAS The external hdd I was thinking of a Drobo 5DT 15TB OR G-SPEED STUDIO 12TB which are both DAS. Id like to work on video editing directly on the external...
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    G-Drive w/ Thunderbolt

    Question for you guys. I have a G-Drive with Thunderbolt working absolutely great with my 5k iMac. When ready to shut down the computer, I know you must unmount the drive by either dragging it to Trash or ejecting it from Finder. But after that, is there any difference whether to shut down the...