This week’s Broadfield LIVE Webinar is as re-introduction to Glyph Production Technology Storage Solutions. Host Jim Bask will be joined by Mayson Peffer from Glyph to show you just what they have coming up this season. Glyph has been at the forefront of storage innovations and look to have some exciting news for us and our dealers.
A year or so ago, I invested more than $2,000 in an 8-bay, 24 terabyte RAID system — which included a handle for portability. My G-Speed Shuttle XL is a great piece of kit, but you need a pack mule if you’re going to take it into the field.
At NAB this year we got a chance to talk with Mayson Peffer from Glyph about what new for them this year. He told us all about their new BlackBox Pro, external desktop hard drive. It features USB-C technology and a professional power supply and optimized cooling.
Glyph utilizes RAID-0. This is known as striping RAID. What happens is that instead of writing to just one drive at 480MBps,
Check out our compilation of SSD drive storage from Sony, G-Technology, and Glyph.
Having a dependable hard drive for your projects is a really, really important part of your music production rig. It’s where you will be storing your work, session files that represent countless hours of work, blood, sweat, and tears. So why would you keep your work on an inexpensive hard drive? That’s like affixing your masterpiece on newsprint; I can guarantee you that it’s going to fall apart sooner rather than later. Take it from personal experience: those inexpensive, consumer level drives can’t handle the demands of large, multi-track audio sessions on a regular basis. Running multi-track audio sessions on your computer’s internal OS drive will eventually lead to problems as well, because your OS drive is busy with other important tasks, such as continually accessing dozens of system files.
Check out our new product line of Glyph storage solutions.
The new MacBook Pro is here and it only has Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports. But that’s OK, because USB-C is fast, future-proof, and will eventually (probably) replace standard USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, power, and more.