G-Technology G-RAID - Thunderbolt - 8 TB - 7200 RPM - CERTIFIED !!! Hard Drive
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This is the excellent G-RAID Thunderbolt hard drive by G-Technology. It is an aluminum body external hard drive enclosure with 2 hard drives inside, in a hardware RAID 0 configuration. The result is a singe 8TB hard drive that moves very fast. It has the Thunderbolt interface, which is a convenient, and extremely fast connector.I have 3 of these drives, and because my storage needs have grown dramatically, I have decided to sell them. I do not like to do things improperly. As such, when selling a used hard drive, I want to be sure I am selling something that will not give the new user any problems, so this is what I did:In order to be completely sure the drive is working as it should with no problems, and also to be sure that all of the data I had on them is completely gone, I used some very excellent software called SoftRAID to "Certify" the drives. What this does is something SoftRAID says should be done at the factory, but is not because of cost and time restraints in manufacturing. Anyway, the SoftRAID certification tool writes data over every sector of the drive (erasing whatever is there already). After it writes this data, it then reads the data back, and compares it to what it wrote, to be sure the drive does not make any read or write errors. If that is not enough, it then repeats the process two more times!! This takes
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