Glyph GT 050Q (1TB)

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Glyph GT 050Q (1TB) (No Longer Available)

Item ID: GT050Q1TB

1TB Quad Desktop Hard Drive with FireWire 400, 2 FireWire 800, USB, and eSATA - 7,200rpm

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Designed for the Daily, Grueling Use of Audio!

It's impossible to place a dollar value on a once-in-a-lifetime performance. So why trust that magic to a bargain basement hard drive? That's why you need the Glyph GT 050Q 1TB — or any Glyph drive, for that matter. Here at Sweetwater, we equip all our studios with Glyph hard drives, which are the most dependable made-for-audio hard drives available — and trust us, we scoured the pro audio planet searching for these. Glyph gives you the kind of peace-of-mind you can't possibly measure. You just have to ask yourself one simple question... exactly how much is your personal project or musical performance worth? Don't trust your projects to anybody but Glyph.

The Glyph GT 050Q 1TB is the ultimate solution for your project and mobile studio. It includes a built-in power supply, a standard dual 6-pin powered FireWire 400 interface, two 9-pin FireWire 800 connectors, a USB 2.0 connector, one eSATA port, and it's built in a sturdy steel case. All that means, it's ready to interface with whatever kind of laptop or desktop computer you have already — and whatever one your friend brings over too.

You'll also appreciate the noise-elimination technologies built into the GT 050Q 1TB. Because this high-tech drive was made for pro audio and video, the crew at Glyph understands that you can't have your hard drive making crazy amounts of noise when you have live microphones in the room. You won't even know the GT 050Q 1TB is in there, that's how quiet it is. And, by the way, thanks to the the Oxford 924 bridging chip in the GT 050Q 1TB, you can be sure this Glyph is ready to work flawlessly with whatever pro audio software you run, including Pro Tools.

Glyph GT 050Q 1TB Features at a Glance:

Pro audio hard drive
7,200rpm
Connections: FireWire 800 and 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA
Hard Drive Size: 1TB
Ultra-quiet operation
Oxford 924 bridging chip for optimized use with Pro Tools

You deserve the peace of mind the ultra-reliable, made-for-audio Glyph GT 050Q 1TB hard drive provides!

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Specification	Detail
Manufacturer Part Number	GT050Q1FN-1000

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Reviews

Exxcellent HArd Drive

by Keith Kramer from Boston, MA
October 15, 2011
Music Background: Composer, Guitarist, Producer, Recording Engineer

This is mu second Glyph and both are working perfectly - so far, for me, one of the best and dependable hard drives on the market.

It's really quiet

by from
August 26, 2011
Music Background: Musician

OK, I'm not blown away, it's a storage device, but still, it's really quiet and I never think about it.

Excellent External HD!!

by James from OH
July 22, 2011
Music Background: Hobbyist

What's not to love? From the multiple interfaces to the internal power supply (no external power "brick"), this drive is great! Inside is a 7200 RPM 16MB cache Seagate SATA drive. The chasis stays coo... read more [+]l with the internal fan. The drive enclosure could be quieter, but the noise level is acceptable. I picked up two of these! close [-]

Gotta love a Glyph

by Doug from
June 3, 2011
Music Background:

This is the second Glyph external hard drive I've purchased, and they're awesome - never a problem, they just function as they should. I use both hard drives for Pro Tools, and I've used them with M-P... read more [+]owered on Windows format and now with HD on Mac format. Never a glitch recording straight to these hard drives or pulling samples for memory hogs like BFD2 from them. Highly recommended. close [-]

Really Super Drive

by Dolph Amick from Atlanta, GA
May 18, 2011
Music Background: Professional Composer and Musician

I understand and am sympathetic to the other reviewers' noise concerns, but, c'mon, anything that has moving parts is going to generate some level of sound. It's rather unrealistic to expect any drive... read more [+] to be TOTALLY silent... although I must say my Glyph drive is, in my opinion, astonishingly quiet. A few simple precautions keep any fan noise out of my recordings, which are made in the same room as the computer and two external fan-cooled drives. The drives both reside on shelves under my desk, with just a little acoustic foam on the surfaces close to them, as well as some other sound-absorbent office supplies like stacks of paper nearby (taking care not to block the vents on the drives, of course). I've been very satisfied with the Glyph drive, which set up perfectly the first time and has always behaved as one would hope. My iTunes collection also resides on it, and despite the immense number of files, access has been much, much faster with the Glyph drive than with my consumer-level LaCie Quadra 2. I was also very excited that the variety of connection options on the Glyph helped me cope with the dearth of Firewire ports on my Mac; right now I'm running my MOTU traveler into the Glyph's FW400 port, then the Glyph's FW800 port to the Mac... works incredibly well. I'm currently planning to buy two more Glyph drives for video and archiving. Anyhoo, I don't claim to be an expert on peripherals by any means, but I must say I've been completely satisfied with my Glyph drive and feel it was an excellent purchase, and one I would heartily recommend to anyone. close [-]