In terms of installation and use, we had to get this unit from Mac format to Windows. “The G-DRIVE ArmorATD helps shield your photos, footage and files from accidental drops with a premium aluminum enclosure, internal shock mounts, and an easy-grip rubber bumper for durability you can trust.” SanDisk calls it the ‘most durable USB C external hard drive’ and the product’s full name is the SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE ArmorATD drive.Īccording to the company. We think most people will want to extra-protect something like this, but the rubberised outer shell is there as well and is welcome. We opted for the ArmorATD 5 Terabyte Hard Drive priced at £ 161.99 at the time of writing.Įncased in protective rubber as it is, the use case concept with these units (aside from storage, obviously) is the option to not have to use a carrying case with it. So what to backup on now then? If one terabyte is now for kids, then surely for enterprise use (or at least enterprise use that requires serious muscle for video, high-res print or some other high-intensity use case) we have to be talking about somewhere around 5 terabytes. Of course, now we can fit a single terabyte on a ‘thumb drive’ type device and stick in our pocket’, today it’s not unusual to have your entire movie and CD collection stored on something the size of two fingers of KitKat. The first single terabyte 3.5 format drive didn’t arrive until 2007 and that was the 7,100 revolutions per minute Hitachi Deskstar 7k1000. But times have moved on that was then and this is now.īack in the 1990s, the very idea that major computing labs would have produced a terabyte server was tough to fathom.
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