Hitachi says the G-RAID external HDD can turn any PC into a content creation workstation through high speed connectivity and capacities of up to 8TB.
Connection interfaces include 3Gbit eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 via cable) and USB 2.0. The drive carries Hitachi 4TB 7200RPM Deskstar 7K4000 HDs with a 6Gb/s SATA interface and a 64MB cache buffer.
The company claims the drive handles simultaneous playback of multiple layers of HDV, DVCPRO HD, XDCAM HD and ProRes 422 HQ footage.
It is ready out of the box for use with Mac OS X systems and also supports Windows systems through reformatting.