SO AN INSTA-READER WHO WORKS FOR HITACHI sent me one of their G-Drive Slim external hard drives to try out. I’ve used it for Time Machine backup on my Mac and it’s worked flawlessly. But what really sets it apart is the design — it’s sleek and cool, much like a Macbook Air. I’m sure that’s not by accident.

He also sent me a G-Raid array, but I didn’t have anything to do with one of those at the moment, so I passed it on to Doug Weinstein, who put it to work in his recording studio. Doug reports that it took some fiddling to set up — it was configured for Apple and he runs a PC-based studio — but that once reconfigured it’s worked very well.