About Your G-SPEED Studio XL
G SPEED
STUDIO
XL
with Thunderbolt™
p. 8
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the G-Technology G-SPEED Studio XL, featuring 20 Gb/s Thunderbolt 2
interface technology.
Specifically designed for professional content creation applications, the G-SPEED Studio XL
storage system provides RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD functionality for both application
performance and data protection. The drive supports Thunderbolt 2™ technology which enables
blazing fast, concurrent data streams, capable of data transfer rates over 1300 MB/s. This opens up
incredible time-saving and multi-stream possibilities for content creation professionals who use
bandwidth-intensive 2K and 4K media formats.
With two bidirectional ports, a user can easily daisy chain up to six high-speed Thunderbolt peripheral
devices, including external disk drives, video capture devices and external displays. Thunderbolt 2 is
backward compatible with the previous, first-generation version of Thunderbolt.
G-SPEED Studio XL supports the industry’s most
demanding professional content creation applications,
including Final Cut Pro®, Adobe Premiere® and Avid™
Media Composer.