Impressive....does everything you need it to. 
by Larry F from Virginia, June 2007
Music Background:  serious hobbyist - 25+ hours / week

I bought the 1/2 terabyte version of the GT062 in March for VI library storage and streaming. I am using it in RAID0 mode, which is recommended - it gives you the fastest data access speeds. I run some really heavy duty VIs off this drive, like a number of Sampletekk 1+ gig grand pianos, the entire Kontakt library. etc. This drive has more than met my expectations, and if I could afford it, I'd certainly add another 2 or 3 to my studio so I could spread out some of the larger VIs on their own drives. That isn't really in the budget, however. I expected good solid performance (it is a Glyph, after all) but with occasional pops, clicks, cutouts, etc., as either the drive or the firewire port got overwhelmed by my demanding VIs. Actually, though, it's been great. I only got one pop and crackle, in three months of using it, and that was an intentional stress test, in which I had four one-gigabyte sample pianos running concurrently off this one hard drive, through one firewire port. And yes, it couldn't handle it, but what you can you expect - I was making the drive pull gigabyte samples scattered across the disk for multiple instruments to play in realtime, with polyphony over 100 in total. You might pull that off with a bank of internal raptors (or maybe not!), but not with an external drive. Aside from that one intentional overload, I have *never* had an issue with this drive. It's successfully streamed 32 simultaneous instruments into Kontakt without a single pop or crackle, not one, not in 2 months. The 062 is solid as a brick and obviously well made. It uses the Oxford 924 chip set that's so highly recommended for VI streaming. When used in RAID0 mode, it's got a 16 mg cache, which doubles your data throughput over the traditional 8 mg cache. The actual drive is a respectable Seagate unit. The whole thing is built like a brick - very solid and tough, with an excellent power supply internally contained (no wall wart). Of course, it is more expensive than a vanilla external FW disk, but this is where your music or your crucial virtual instrument libraries are going to be stored, right? This is the place to throw some extra coin. I would buy it again, and I'm sure as I get some cash, I'll add at least another 1, maybe 2. They chain, up to around 40 or 50. They fit nicely into a rack, in a 1u space. I sound like a cheerleader for Glyph, but I've been using their products for six years in which I've never had a byte of data lost, and those 6 year old Glyphs are still in my studio recording and playing back my music. Try doing that with a low-end external drive. Naturally, Glyphs cost somewhat more than their similarly configured competitors. If a Glyph is $500, you can probably find a competitive product for say $350 or $400. Only the individual can make that choice. To me, the extra few bucks provides worthwhile peace of mind.

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