G-Technology (www.g-technology.com) has announced the first extension of its Studio line, the G-SPEED Studio XL.

Expanding on the two–bay G-RAID Studio and four-bay G-SPEED Studio Thunderbolt 2 storage solutions, which launched earlier this year, the G-SPEED Studio XL holds up to eight removable, enterprise-class 7,200 RPM hard drives, offering colossal capacity and performance of up to 1,350 megabytes per second (MB/sec) performance for the most demanding digital content creation applications, says Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, G-Technology.

The G-SPEED Studio XL eight-bay Thunderbolt 2 storage solution comes in a black enclosure with integrated cooling technology. It supports 4k workflows with user-configurable RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60, and impressive transfer rates of up to 1,350MB/sec in RAID 0. Like other products in the Studio line, the G-SPEED Studio XL can be daisy-chained via dual Thunderbolt 2 ports to boost storage speeds and support multi-stream HD, 2K and compressed 4K workflows.

The G-SPEED Studio XL will be available in November. Manufacturer's suggested retail pricing is 24TB for US$3,599.95, 32TB for $4,599.95, 40TB for $5,499.95, 48TB for $5,999.95 and a colossal 64TB for $6,999.95. All products in G-Technology's Studio line are plug-and-play for Macs and come with a three-year limited warranty.