What's so special about Glyph drives?

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Just recently talked to a salesman when looking into buying some gear
for a home project studio, and he strongly recommended the Glyph
firewire drives, citing special construction for reliable, speedy
writes and quiet operation. Are they really superior in both respects?

I've heard of drives having big buffers to get rid of latency issues,
which I guess could account for speedy seeming writes, and it does
seem to me that some drives are quieter than others (fluid bearing?)
but I'm interested to learn more about what kind of tech can really
improve these things, and if Glyphs are really built better than the
Western Digitals or LaCie's I can find at CompUSA.

 

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rostov@mmedia.csoft.net (Rostov) wrote in message news:<a09ab0c0.0407281818.555f7a19@posting.google.com>...
> Just recently talked to a salesman when looking into buying some gear
> for a home project studio, and he strongly recommended the Glyph
> firewire drives, citing special construction for reliable, speedy
> writes and quiet operation. Are they really superior in both respects?
>
> I've heard of drives having big buffers to get rid of latency issues,
> which I guess could account for speedy seeming writes, and it does
> seem to me that some drives are quieter than others (fluid bearing?)
> but I'm interested to learn more about what kind of tech can really
> improve these things, and if Glyphs are really built better than the
> Western Digitals or LaCie's I can find at CompUSA.


The only Glyph product I bought was along time ago. I bought a 2 x 6
CD-R drive. I wasn't to savvy on what drives were good and so forth.
The actual mechanism was a Phillips 2600 drive. I only did say 40
burns with it and it went belly up. That happened just after going out
of warranty. I called them up and the only thing they would do for me
is sell me a refurb. I found out from a little research that this
drive mechanism was a known dog.

SO you ask what is so special about glyph drives? Absolutely nothing.


Mike http/www.mmeproductions.com

 

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<< I've heard of drives having big buffers to get rid of latency issues, >>

Latency results from the signal being digitized & processed through the
computer. The hard drive & its buffers are not part of the latency issue.


Scott Fraser

 

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In article <a09ab0c0.0407281818.555f7a19@posting.google.com> rostov@mmedia.csoft.net writes:

> Just recently talked to a salesman when looking into buying some gear
> for a home project studio, and he strongly recommended the Glyph
> firewire drives, citing special construction for reliable, speedy
> writes and quiet operation. Are they really superior in both respects?

No, but they have good construction, good support, and they've tested
their gear extensively with music systems. They use the same drives
inside those boxes that you can buy yourself.

Computer hardware is computer hardware until you take it out of the
mainstream home/office PC enviornment. A corporation (that's figured
these things out) has no problem with a failed drive because its
contents is always backed up somewhere else. A musician on a budget
may be aware of such techniques but hasn't implemented them himself.
Using drives and enclousures that might just improve the failure rate
even a tiny bit might be worth the investment. Or maybe not. There are
no guarantees, but most people consider their data to be very
valuable. An extra $100 over a general purpose computer store portable
drive system may never pay off, and, unfortunately, when it does pay
off, you never know it (it doesn't flash lights saying "I JUST SAVED
YOUR DATA"). It's kind of like buying insurance.


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I don't own any Glyph products, but it seems what they offer is robust hardware
packaging of standard high quality drives, along with excellent support and
service for a premium price. If you're technically savvy it may not be worth
it, but if you're not it might welcome insurance.


Ted Spencer, NYC

"No amount of classical training will ever teach you what's so cool about
"Tighten Up" by Archie Bell And The Drells" -author unknown

 

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Mike <mmeprod@mmeproductions.com> wrote:

> SO you ask what is so special about glyph drives? Absolutely nothing.

The price.

ulysses

 

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hollywood_steve wrote:

> Last year, when I was purchasing my first hard disk recorder, I did a
> lot of research on the hard drives available at that time. To make a
> long story a little shorter, yes, the better name brand drives are
> more sturdily constructed and more reliable. I chose two of the then
> new Seagate Cheetah 15k rpm SCSI drives. According to the tech
> reviews, Glyph drives were on par with this Seagate model when it came
> to quality, but the Glyph was even more expensive than comparable
> Seagate models. Some of this was due to the fact that Glyph drives
> often include an integrated "carrier" where I needed to purchase a
> Kingston carrier for my Seagate drives.

Glyph don't make drives. They get generic drives, like Seagates, and put
them in a box with their label on them.

They may be well-made boxes and have a versatile integrated system, but
they got their name by being on of the early on the block and clever
marketing.


geoff