G-Technology sells their external storage devices for professionals under the product lines G-SPEED, G-RAID, G-SAFE, and G-DRIVE. G-Technology is currently a line of products sold by Western Digital.
HGST in turn was bought by Western Digital in 2012. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) bought Fabrik and its G-Technology brand in 2009. G-Technology announced the first family of external solid-state drives (SSD) at Macworld Expo 09. That month, the company introduced the world’s first 500 GB 2.5” portable storage drive and the first 1 TB portable external storage drive at Macworld Expo. bought G-Technology for an undisclosed amount. The company sold products to a local community of audio/video creative professionals until the company made an agreement in 2006 with Apple that greatly increased placement of their products in Apple stores in the United States, and raised their revenue from $20,000 a month in 2004 to millions. Medea co-founder Roger Mabon purchased the rights to one of Medea’s products from Avid – a two-drive RAID 0 storage system for creative professionals – and opened up his own startup company just blocks from his house in Santa Monica. In 2004, Medea Corporation, a manufacturer of storage systems optimized for digital content creation, was sold to Avid Technology.
