Glyph Most companies build external hard drives without a fan. That may be fine for office use but in heavy-duty cycles like audio and video production, your drive gets much hotter and has a higher likelihood of failing. To keep the drive mechanism cool and your data safe, Glyph uses whisper-quiet fans that produce no more than 20 dBA. To further keep the noise floor down, Glyph uses unique Quiet Metal, a tri-laminate structure with two layers of metal separated by a polymer core. You'll notice the difference immediately by just knocking on the case, no cowbell sound here. The disk mechanism is also mounted to rubber isolators to dampen disk vibration before it reaches the chassis, thereby reducing the overall noise. If you have connected a FireWire cable in the dark you might have seen small sparks. The reason is the external power adapter without proper grounding which can result in a zap that kills drive enclosure’s FireWire/ATA board. Or in the worst case, the motherboard of the computer. We’ve seen this happening too many times. Glyph uses properly grounded internal power supplies and standard IEC power connectors like other pro studio gear. As Glyph has full confident in their products, they offer 3 year warranty. No expensive warranty extension necessary. Below you’ll find short selection of Glyph latest bestsellers, for additional SCSI, tape, portable and optical products visit: www.glyphtech.com For professional studios that offer storage for their clients, we have a special "Glyph As Tape"-program with very special pricing. Call us for details.
Portagig SSD In an audio environment, you'll experience a very high track count, even at high edit density. At SEC we tested the drive with Pro Tools HD and managed to achieve: 192 tracks playback at 44KHz 96 tracks playback at 96KHz 20 tracks recording + 172 tracks reading at 44KHz 36 tracks recording + 100 tracks reading at 96KHz That's over 100 tracks higher than a standard firewire drive! PortaGig SSD has a distinct advantage over standard 2.5” HDDs since it's made of solid-state memory and has no moving parts, and therefore eliminates the possibility of mechanical failure resulting from vibration, shock, and heat. This means the PortaGig SSD can operate reliably for more hours, in hotter environments, and under rougher conditions. No moving parts means also no noise and much less power needed for operation. The Portagig SSD is bus powered over FW800 and USB 2.0. A power supply is included for connecting to low-power USB ports. As for the other Glyph products, there is a 3 Year Full Warranty, 2 Years of Free Level I Data Recovery, and 1 Year of Free Advance Replacement. more info
GT 205 The 2U enclosure features Glyph's integrity FireWire hot-swap interface, three internal power supplies and a near-silent fan. GT Key drives can be interchanged with the GT 051 tabletop and the GT 103 3-bay 1U enclosures. Focused on keeping your studio quiet, GT Keys incorporate sound-dampening metal in their frames. This composite metal technology absorbs drive vibration and reduces equipment noise. Glyph's GT 205 comes standard with a three-year warranty, while GT Keys carry an additional overnight advance replacement warranty in the first year. more info
GT 103 The 1U stainless steel enclosure features Glyph's own Integrity, an advanced FireWire interface that improves hot-swap integrity over existing ATA-to-FireWire products. The hot-swap drives in the GT 103 can be interchanged with the GT 051 tabletop and the GT 205 5-bay 2U enclosures. The GT 103 is configurable in any combination of up to three GT Key hot-swappable drives. more info
GT 051 Would you like the ability to rack-mount your GT 051? Optional rack ears are available! The GT 051 FireWire has two FireWire ports and a power connection on the back of the unit. more info
GT Key GT Key hard drives ship from Glyph in the Key Case. This protective carrying case has anti-static foam padding with a hard plastic outside shell, and allows GT Key drives to be stored and transported safely. The case is designed to stand upright on a shelf and has space on the front and spine for a label. more info
GT 050Q GT 050Q is constructed with durable stainless steel and uses tri-laminate sound-damping metal, which absorbs drive vibration before it can get to the chassis. Available with up to 750GB Seagate SATA 7,200 RPM drives, the GT 050Q comes standard with a three-year warranty. The GT 050Q FireWire has two FireWire 800 ports, a FireWire 400 port, a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed port, an eSATA port, and a power connection on the back of the unit. Optional rack ears available. more info
GT 062 more info
miSAN V The miSAN can be configured with up to 6TB of RAID 5 + hot spare capacity, with a tape drive. Tape formats available are AIT-3, AIT-5, and LTO-4. Seagate SATA II drives are used exclusively. Ethernet ports include two gigabit ports for data, and one gigabit port for management. The power supplies and drives are hot-swappable and redundant. The tape drive is removable for easy swap. Includes a web configuration utility. miSAN supports most backup systems like Retrospect, Mezzo, Symantec Backup Exec and Net Backup, ARCserve, etc. The miSAN is operating System independent, with true block level capacity to heterogeneous hosts with common hardware. It supports iSCSI network attach and SCSI local attach with 200 MB/sec sustained transfer rate. Glyph tested and approved the free SNS iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X, while Windows comes with an iSCSI Initiator pre installed. more info
Basement Tales With cheap FireWire disks, you can waste lots of time and nerves to weird compatibility problems. Office grade disks from local discounter simply don't cut it in professional work due to cheap internal parts like incompatible FireWire bridge chipsets. And if you dare to ask about Pro Tools compatibility, the store rep usually thinks you're talking about a new game and tries to sell you a PS3. We're pretty sure you didn't buy your 2" tapes as no-name products from your local Denner either so why put your valuable work to the cheapest (dare we say crappiest...) data carrier available? It's like carrying all your savings in a plastic bag and go to east L.A. in the middle of the night waving a big sign "rob me please, I'm a tourist". Many learned the hard way that cheap can be very expensive when you lose weeks of work so after the initial run to office-grade el cheapo drives, people started to seek a reliable storage solution and found Glyph. We could tell muchos hair-raising stories about people wasting thousands and thousands of francs because of "cheap" storage but let's not even go there. Let's stick to the good news which is that most of them changed to Glyph after few nasty crashes, some sooner, some later. |
