Glyph Hard Drives, any advice Options

[tabbat]

Does anyone know if Glyph hard drives are worth it or is it ok to go out and get any external hard drive, and what's the difference anyways, new to all this ... so thanx..

[kibodan]

from what i remember, the big attraction with glyph is their warranty - which promises a very fast replacement in case of failure. to my mind it wasn't worth the money - and i have been using a lacie 120gb firewire drive for 18 months without any problem at all. an equivalent glyph drive would have cost twice as much.

[Loki_malito]

When I went through Berkelee College of Music's "Producing at home with Pro Tools" I got a book by the same name, written by David Franz (Great Class for those learning Pro tools) In this book Mr. Franz does mention the Glyph hard drives as his choice of hard drives. I have looked into getting one but as some one has mentioned earlier, they are a little pricier, so much that I would just rather spend the money and buy Avid hard drives. Depending on what Recording Program you are using it may or may not work out for you. When I first got Pro Tools 6.1 I had a Lacie and it worked great on it. Once I upgraded to PT6.2 and greater PT would not recognize the Lacie as an "audio" hard drive. It is working now, but the lesson I learned is to make sure that your hard drive will work with your Recording software. Just my 2 cents worth.
ANDY

[tabbat]

Anyone know which external hard drives work as an "audio" hard drive if I am using Digital Performer 4.5 as my recording program/sequencer? thnx

[kibodan]

i am fairly confident that any decent (eg lacie, quantegy) external drive will do what you need. as there should be no conflicts between DP and any firewire drive you choose.

BUT

i am a logic user, and have very little experience of DP, so double check with an expert

also, do you have any mates who use an external drive that you could borrow for an evening?

good luck

[ianstonehouse]

A colleague of mine recently had a lot of problems with a LaCie firewire external drive and DP (in Mac OSX) - on my recommendation he went for a Glyph NetDrive (160Gb) and has no problems now I believe.

We use Glyph NetDrives in the studio here with ProTools LE/Digi001 and also HD2 systems (the latter gives record/play of 192 tracks ) and they work like a dream. The various LaCie firewire drives we have kept crashing and 'disappearing' on startup (an issue with Panther 10.3 I think) so we're replacing them. They were reliable in OS9, but not in OSX Panther.

Be sure to format external drives in Mac OS Extended format and NOT Panther's 'Journalled' format, as the latter slows disk access time a lot! Glyph drives are usually formatted in Mac OS Extended anyway when you buy them new, but just in case you reformat...!

P.S. Glyph NetDrives are also virtually silent, wheras the older blue/silver LaCie firewires we have are not.

Ce message a été modifié par ianstonehouse - mer. 5 janv. 2005, 12:28.

[charlzz]

Any FireWire drive for audio should work fine if it has the Oxford 911 bridge chip, 7200rpm and 8MB buffer such as drives from OWC and LaCie, etc.

For Digidesign approved drives at more affordable prices compared to Glyph, check out EZQuest, <http://www.ezq.com/index.php>, Pro Audio FireWire 400 and 800, and Cobra drives for video.

EZQuest has been working with Apple, Avid and Digidesign on a new and much hyped audio/video drive they will unveil at MacWorld Expo on January 11, 2005:

Thunder Drive
* Sleek Aluminum Casing
* 3 FireWire 400 or 800 Ports and 1 USB 2.0 Port
* Smallest footprint in the industry
* Super fast FireWire 800 or 400 Transfer Rates
* Mac and PC compatible

[tabbat]

ty all, it helps tremendously.