G-Technology G-Speed Shuttle Thunderbolt 3 16TB Review

1. Introduction2. G-Technology G-Speed Shuttle 16TB / Packaging & Bundle3. G-Technology G-Speed Shuttle Thunderbolt 3 16TB / Design4. G-Technology G-Speed Utility5. Testing Methodology6. ATTO7. CrystalDiskMark8. Backup / Restore9. Real Life File Transfers10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

At the heart of G-Technology's idea for the G-Speed Shuttle is to a mobile RAID storage system supporting 4K and 8K file transfers. To this end we added both 4K and 8K folders of movie clips to our real life file transfer tests.

We also tested the real life file transfer performance between the G-Speed Shuttle and a fast NVMe SSD (512GB Toshiba OCZ RD400), more akin to the drive you might find in a workstation.

100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
BluRay movie.
16GB 4K Movie folder
40GB 8K Movie folder.

The drive handled our real life file transfers to and from both types of SSD without any problems. The G-Speed Shuttle handles large files very quickly and efficiently. At its default RAID 5 mode, our 16GB folder of 4K clips took just 28 seconds to transfer to the NVMe drive and 27 seconds in the opposite direction while the 40GB 8K folder took 38 seconds to transfer to the NVMe drive and 36 seconds to write back to the unit.

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