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External Hard Drives, Do I really need Glyph?

Tim View Member Profile	Fri 28 Jun 2002, 00:49 Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 23-Jun 02 From: Cleveland Member No.: 5,200	I'm getting a Powerbook and will be running ProTools LE and Absynth...at least for now. Some guys at a music store I am working with are making me think that I need a Glyph drive for my external hard drive. Now, I do know that i want an external drive, because i don't want to tax the Powerbook drive with the audio I record and playback. But, the Glyph drives are so expensive. I just looked at a Mac Warehouse Catelog and saw 7200 RPM, 80gig firewire drives for a little over $200. Won't this suffice. The 80gig Glyph Companion drive is $500. Anybody using drives from LaCie, Que, etc? Any problems or rumored problems? Thanks, Tim.

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Synthetic View Member Profile	Mon 23 Sep 2002, 16:51 Post #2
Maniac Member Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 25-Jun 01 From: Springfield - US Member No.: 1,082	Stuartpa has a good point. Glyph "tunes" their drives so they work more effeciently for multimedia production. Also, Glyph has great support. If ANYTHING happens to your drive within the first year... just contact them or your retailer for a return and they ship you a new drive within 24 hours. That is part of the reason they cost more. I have a glyph drive (project x) 30gig that I use with my Digi001 and love it. Never had a bit of trouble with and fast tranfers. Not all drives are built the same either. You should really seek the best performance when dealing with audio and that means looking at throughput rates and seek times. I do not recommend IDE simply for the way it handles incoming data (doesn't manage data effeciently enough for good performance especially with multitrack high bit rate use). It is possible to use just the standard ATA or IDE drives that come with laptops and desktops internally but you may experience some "hicups" in the recording when it gets too intense for it. Audio drives should either be some form of SCSI or firewire for best performance and at least 7200 RPM with 10000 RPM being the ideal drive. Also, the bigger the drive... the more time it takes to read data and to find data so you want to get it as fast as possible. So yes, any drive "will work" but, if you want reliability, performance and good support... you will most likely have to pay for it by spending more for your drive than just grabbing the most bytes for the buck. I do know someone who created a 100gig wide SCSI raid system using cheaper drives that were bought seperately and then housed into a raid system for less than I paid for my Glyph 30Gig but I also know he was fuming mad when he lost a drive with important data on it too. So you never know. -------------------- ---------------------------------------- <span style='font-size:18pt;line-height:100%'>Synthetic Tone</span> Click above for totally original electronic music, art, & photos. Click below to become an active member of the MacMusic.org site.. <span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Become An Active Member</span> G4 550mhz Tibook & Brand Spankin New Dual G5 2Ghz Power Mac with Tiger. So long old OS9 apps :(

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Tim External Hard Drives Fri 28 Jun 2002, 00:49

discostu131 First off, im no expert, and i dont really know wh... Fri 28 Jun 2002, 18:41

lepetitmartien Hum… Do you really want to put a foot on the ladd... Sat 29 Jun 2002, 03:11

damann oh yes, a hard drive is a hard drive, a marketing ... Wed 3 Jul 2002, 02:54

Stuartpa No doubt about it at all, you can put the exact sa... Sun 22 Sep 2002, 22:37

rickenbacker It's not true that every hard disk is exactly ... Mon 23 Sep 2002, 14:35

Synthetic Stuartpa has a good point. Glyph "tunes... Mon 23 Sep 2002, 16:51

damann QUOTE (Tim @ Jun 27 2002, 23:49)But, the Glyp... Mon 23 Sep 2002, 17:10

Synthetic hmm... never new firewire drives were actually ide... Mon 23 Sep 2002, 19:48

damann hi synthetic, please look into this (i'm sure... Tue 24 Sep 2002, 01:34

rickenbacker I don't get p*$$ed off with replies ... Tue 24 Sep 2002, 16:18

Presto Aha! I use an Mbox too. I didn't realise t... Tue 24 Sep 2002, 19:26

damann hi rickenbacker, just trying to be polite. i'v... Wed 25 Sep 2002, 00:18

Presto I've been thinking. I'm a bit slow but her... Wed 25 Sep 2002, 10:01

beezkneez i don't know whether the glyph is better but a... Wed 25 Sep 2002, 11:42

rickenbacker Hey Damann, Thanks for the tip. I've seen the... Wed 25 Sep 2002, 15:39

damann hi rickenbacker, the noise is, as with the glyph, ... Thu 26 Sep 2002, 00:59

lepetitmartien We had already a thread on this… If you really wa... Thu 26 Sep 2002, 05:01

rickenbacker Thanks, Damann - I'll wait for the new Firewir... Thu 26 Sep 2002, 10:37

truthfind Just a note to all about an experience that I have... Thu 26 Sep 2002, 17:04

Synthetic QUOTE Now, let's say you've got 10 Gb free... Thu 26 Sep 2002, 19:52

damann regarding that last quote. don't use your inte... Fri 27 Sep 2002, 02:53

Presto "...noticed that some recordings seemed to ha... Fri 27 Sep 2002, 15:44

Synthetic sometimes its hard to just look at some stats to d... Fri 27 Sep 2002, 17:07

rickenbacker Synthetic has got it exactly right - home recordis... Sat 28 Sep 2002, 11:14

fromage Pardon the warming-up of leftovers from the back o... Mon 2 Dec 2002, 12:31

Presto I've just got an 80Gb MacWay FW Icebox. It... Mon 2 Dec 2002, 17:36

Levon River If I've posted this before, it bears repeating... Tue 3 Dec 2002, 01:22

Presto Had a look - as far as I can see and read its the ... Tue 3 Dec 2002, 12:15

Teiwaz Hmmm...I know this is an old thread, but I must sa... Wed 4 Dec 2002, 17:26

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