In RAID 1, the drive offers just half of the total storage space. For data safety, you can use a Mac's Disk Utility to change the hard drives into a RAID 1 configuration, a process that took just a few seconds in my trials. RAID 0 also allows for very high performance, but if one of the hard drives dies, you'll lose data on both. The two hard drives of the G-RAID come in a RAID 0 configuration, offering one single HFS+ volume that is the total of the two hard drives' capacities, which was 8TB in the case of my review unit. Up to four other Thunderbolt devices can be used with the G-RAID to connect to one computer. I tried it with a few other drives and it worked very well. The two Thunderbolt ports mean that it can be used in a daisy chain setup as any part of the chain. This means it will stay on even when the Mac is turned off and won't turn on by itself if the when the connected Mac is powered on. And you'll need this power button since, unlike the rest of the Thunderbolt drives, the G-RAID doesn't share the same power status as the computer to which it's plugged in. The G-RAID is the second Thunderbolt drive I've worked with (the other is the Promise Pegasus R6) that comes with a power button. On the back it has two Thunderbolt ports, a little ventilation fan, and a power button that you'll need to press and hold for a few seconds to turn the drive on or off. On the front, the drive has one large, square white light that shows the power status (solid white) and the activities of the hard drives on the inside (flashing white).
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