Glyph Technologies Studio 6TB External Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, eSATA

Create With Confidence
With USB 3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA, you can connect via your interface of choice. Professional-grade power supplies and autonomous cooling systems keep your data safe and available. Studio is backed with a full 3 year warranty, including 2 years of level-1 data recovery and one year of advance replacement service.

Time Machine Compatible
Studio comes preformatted HFS+ with Journaling and is Time Machine compatible out of the box. A simple reformat is all it takes for the Glyph Studio to work with Windows systems.

Quality Components Matter
Glyph Studio has been designed from the ground up to provide the fastest performance, ultimate reliability and a simple, elegant experience throughout your creative process. First Glyph selects the highest quality components available. Then they assemble the drives in their US factory and perform regimented testing on every unit before it ships to you.

Ports
The Studio enclosure contains a single hard disk drive and has FW800, USB 3.0 Hi-speed and eSATA connections. Depending on which port(s) your computer has, you can connect the Studio in a number of ways. The fastest interface on the Studio is eSATA and the USB 3.0 port. Both are located on the rear panel. The Studio can sustain over 130MB/sec (reads) and over 140MB/s (writes) when connected to a 4-lane PCIe eSATA card such as the Sonnet E4P. It can sustain 125MB/sec (reads) and 100MB/s (writes) when connected to a 2-lane PCIe eSATA card such as a Glyph EC2 card. FireWire 800 is the next fastest and there are two FW800 ports on the rear panel.

Officially, these IEEE 1394b ports run at up to 800Mbits/sec. One of these ports can be connected to your computer and the other should be connected to other downstream FireWire devices, if applicable. It doesn't matter which port you connect to the computer, they are functionally identical. If your computer has a FireWire 800 port you can use the provided FireWire 800 9-pin cable. If your computer has a FireWire 400 port only, you can use a FW400 to FW800 adapter cable, which is available from Glyph. If your computer doesn't have any FireWire ports you can either purchase a FireWire or eSATA adapter card (recommended) or use the USB 3.0 port on the back of the Studio.

Front panel LED
The Studio front panel has a single bi-color LED. The LED will display solid blue when power is on. The LED will flash blue when there is disk activity. The LED will display red if there is a hard drive failure.

Power Switch
The power switch must be held for three seconds to power off the Studio. After three seconds the LED will turn off and releasing the button will power off the unit. This is a safety precaution against unintended power off.

Internal Power Supply
Glyph uses efficient, high-quality power supplies, selected specifically for the demands of production environments. The Studio has an auto-switching universal power supply. Its input voltage can range from 100- 240v at 50/60 Hz, allowing the Studio to be safely used overseas.

Internal Temperature-Controlled Fan
The Studio has an internal temperature-controlled fan. Software inside the Studio sets the fan RPM to either HI or LOW speeds. They have found that both HI and LOW fan speeds are very quiet.

Rack Mounting
Transform your Studio into a 1U rack-mount hard drive with the optional Rack Kit (shown below, compatible with both GPT50 and Studio). The rack kit holds one or two drives in a 1U rack space.

Using the Studio with Windows 2000 / XP
Older versions of Windows, such as 2000 and XP 32-bit, use Master Boot Record (MBR) which doesn't support volumes larger than 2TB. For Studio models that are 3TB or higher, you must format the drive using a GUID Partition Table in Windows. GUID format is only supported by Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X. GPT format will not work with XP 32-bit or older Windows operating systems.

System Requirements

Macintosh Computer with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB or eSATA port or Host Bus Adapter
• FireWire 400 requires OS 8.6 or later
• FireWire 800 requires OS 10.2.5 or later
• USB 3.0 requires OS 10.6 or later
• USB 2.0 requires OS 10.1 or later
• USB 1.1 requires OS 8.6 or later
• eSATA requires OS 10.2.x or later

Windows Computer with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB or eSATA port or Host Bus Adapter
• FireWire 400 requires Windows ME or later
• FireWire 800 requires Windows 2000 or later
• USB 3.0 requires Windows XP or later
• USB 2.0 requires Windows ME or later
• USB 1.1 requires Windows 98 SE or later
• eSATA requires Windows XP or later