Professional Dual-Drive
RAID Solution

The Glyph Blackbox PRO RAID is a high-performance, ultra-reliable hardware RAID powered by Thunderbolt 3. Available with an optional card reader / hub combo to streamline media ingest or charge / connect peripherals. Whether you’re in studio or at home, Glyph Blackbox PRO RAID is the ultimate workflow solution.

Glyph Blackbox PRO RAID Thunderbolt 3 Desktop Drive

Glyph Blackbox PRO RAID Thunderbolt 3 Desktop Drive with Card Readers / Hub

Hardware RAID
Blackbox PRO RAID supports hardware RAID 0, 1, JBOD, and SPAN. Giving you the flexibility to set it up for maximum speed (RAID-0) or redundancy (RAID-1). Set it and forget it with no need to deal with finicky and slow software based RAID.

Stay Cool Under Pressure
Don’t be afraid to put the Blackbox PRO RAID to work. The rugged aluminum shell acts as a heatsink keeping the internal hard drive at its optimal temperature to deliver higher sustained speeds.

Formatted for Mac, Time Machine Ready
Blackbox PRO is formatted for Mac computers and is Time Machine compatible right out of the box. Easily reformat for Windows.

Comprehensive Warranty
Every Glyph drive comes with our industry leading 3-2-1 warranty. Three years of full hardware coverage, including the cables. Two years of Level-1 data recovery, and one year of advanced replacement.

Production-Grade Storage
Glyph has been in the storage game for over 29 years and trusted by creative professionals around the globe. Whether you are a filmmaker, photographer, or aspiring music producer, you can trust Glyph when it matters most.

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The Lacie 16TB 1big dock combines a 16TB Seagate IronWolf Pro 7200 rpm SATA 3.5″ hard drive that delivers data transfer speeds of up to 240 MB/s with two Thunderbolt 3 ports, a USB 3.0 Type-A port, a DisplayPort 1.4 output for 4K video, and SD and CompactFlash card slots. The LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt External SSD provides 1TB of high-speed storage to virtually every type of system that sports a Thunderbolt, USB Type-A, or USB Type-C port. This LaCie Rugged is armed with an SSD, which delivers data at rates of up to 510 MB/s, along with an integrated Thunderbolt cable capable of transferring data at rates of up to 10 Gb/s.

Check out some highlights from Foreman’s review about these two storage solutions.

“There’s room for improvement with the 1big, it may suit those not needing a full dock but where a combined card reader and external drive with additional connectivity would make sense. On the other hand the Rugged Pro SSD is something that could easily find it’s way into my pocket workflow.”

Chris Foreman

“LaCie also have the Rugged Pro SSD which offers connection over USB or Thunderbolt and supports data rates of up to 2800 MB/s. …It’s small in size but features great speeds and has the benefit of working over both USB-C and Thunderbolt, something that the similar Samsung X5 can’t do. Although when using USB-C speeds are of course limited, in testing they were 433 MB/s read 420MB/s write.”

Chris Foreman

Check out the full review here!
Learn more about LaCie here!

What is the BEST external hard drive for video editing on Mac, Windows and Linux? In this video, I’m reviewing the LaCie 2big 8TB Thunderbolt 3 Dock and sharing my thoughts on it. This video isn’t sponsored by LaCie, I just really love this drive! This particular drive also came with an extra LaCie external rugged 2TB drive. If you’re looking to upgrade your current setup, I’m exploring this external hard drive for video editing. It is a thunderbolt 3 dock (TB3), but also works with USB-C and USB-A connections. It features an SD card reader, a CF card reader, front USB-A, 2 rear Thunderbolt 3, 1 rear USB-C and 1 rear Display Port.

Ray Beliveau

Check out everything Beliveau has to say about the drive below.

Check out the video on YouTube here!
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Check out some highlights from the article below.

What is Thunderbolt 3?

Thunderbolt 3 technology is currently the fastest, most versatile protocol on the market capable of high-speed transfers 8x faster than USB 3.0, connecting multiple displays/monitors and daisy-chaining storage devices through a single port.

One Port To Do It All

Connector
Thunderbolt 3 uses the versatile USB-C connector – it doesn’t matter which end you connect to your PC – making connecting easy.

Performance
Thunderbolt 3 delivers transfer speeds of up to 40Gb/s with a portion of the bandwidth reserved for video transmission like dual 5K monitors. That still leaves ample bandwidth for access from storage devices, and other peripherals.

Daisy Chaining
Daisy chain up to 6 devices through a single Thunderbolt 3 port (ex. storage + network + monitor + power), leaving other ports available for additional peripheral devices.

Single-Cable Versatility
A single Thunderbolt 3 cable can be used for high-speed data transfers or supply up 100W of power.

Better Bus Power
Thunderbolt 3 delivers up to 15W of power for connected bus-powered devices. This is required for high-performance NVMe SSDs like our G-DRIVE Mobile Pro SSD.

Check out the full article HERE.

Learn more about G-Technology HERE.

G-Technology operates in a similar market space as LaCie and CalDigit, offering data and storage solutions for creative professionals. The G-DRIVE is the base of the desktop portfolio and includes several models with connectivity options that include USB 3.2 and Thunderbolt 2 and 3.

The model in house is at the top end for capacity, offering 14TB in a single 3.5″ desktop form factor. Connectivity options include USB-C with a 5Gbps backbone and Thunderbolt 3 with 20Gbps. On the Thunderbolt side, you can daisy chain up to five additional devices.

The G-DRIVE packs in a 7200RPM enterprise-class HDD (a Helium-based solution from HGST) with marketing performance offering 250 MB/s read and write. The G-DRIVE is plug and play ready for macOS systems, but easily formatted for use with Windows platforms. The MSRP of the 14TB G-Technology G-DRIVE with TB3 comes in at $649.99 with a five-year warranty.

Check out the full article HERE.

Learn more about G-Technology HERE.