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Mac OS 8.6, 9.X, 10.X
Microsoft Windows 98SE, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8
Modern Unix-based, Linux, or BSD
Hard Disk Drive
2x FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) 9-pin ports
1x USB 3.0 SuperSpeed port
1x eSATA 6Gbit/s port
5TB
Read and Write: 140 MB/s
HFS+
SATA
5400 RPM
Fan-less heat dissipation
Bus-powered via USB or FireWire
Optional power adapter available as an accessory
FireWire, USB
Aluminum
Passive
1 x 4.9 x 3.6" (2.54 x 12.45 x 9.14cm)
691450003064
A Fanless, Light Aluminum Enclosure Keeps The Studio Mini Quiet And Cool While You Work On The Road. The Studio mini is a bus-powered hard drive. With its tiny enclosure, it's small enough to fit into a pocket and powerful enough to support high track-count audio sessions. With USB 3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA interfaces, Studio mini is compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux systems. Designed with a fanless, light aluminum enclosure, it allows you to work on the road easily and reliably.
Bus-powered with FireWire 800 and USB
Small, portable, aluminum case runs quietly with fanless design
Rear power switch
Applications: Field recording, moving audio, video, graphics and prepress files
A Mobile Powerhouse
When you need small, portable storage but can't sacrifice quality, Studio mini is your solution. It's small enough to fit in your pocket but powerful enough to take its rightful place in your workflow. Featuring USB 3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA ports, bus power via USB or FireWire, a rear power switch and a stainless steel face plate. Studio mini is ready when you are.
Easy To Setup!
Time Machine Compatible
Glyph Studio mini comes preformatted HFS+ with Journaling and is Time Machine compatible out of the box. A simple reformat is all it takes for the Studio mini to work with Windows systems.
New York Based Quality
Quality Components Matter
Studio mini has been designed from the ground up to provide the fastest performance, ultimate reliability and a simple, elegant experience throughout your creative process. First we select the highest quality components available. Then we assemble the drives in our US factory and perform regimented testing on every unit.
Ports
If you choose to connect your drive using USB 3.0, use the supplied USB cable. In the vast majority of configurations this USB cable will provide both the fastest data connection available and simultaneously power Studio mini. This is the preferred and optimal connection for operating your Studio mini. On the rear of the Studio mini there are two FireWire 800 ports, one eSATA port and a USB 3.0 port.
Officially, FireWire 800 ports are IEEE 1394b ports that run at up to 800Mbits/sec. One of these ports should be connected to your computer and the other should be connected to other downstream FireWire devices. It doesn't matter which port you connect to the computer, they are functionally identical. If your computer has a FireWire 800 port, use the provided FireWire 800 9-pin cable. If your computer has a FireWire 400 port only, you can use a FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 converter cable, available from Glyph. If you choose to connect your Studio mini using eSATA, you will need an eSATA port on your computer.
Bus Power
Bus-powered with FireWire 800 or USB for optimum compatibility, it also includes an eSATA port for the fastest speed possible. eSATA is not a bus-powered interface, however, you can use the eSATA connection for data transfer while simultaneously using the FireWire 800 connection to power the drive. This allows the fastest connection possible AND bus power from FireWire. Studio mini can be run successfully using FireWire and/or USB bus power supplied by many notebook computers, however Glyph cannot guarantee compatibility with all notebooks due to differing bus power specs.
Front panel LED
The Studio mini front panel has a 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 flash or display a solid red color when error conditions exits with the drive or enclosure. Any error that results in the system state "Halted" generates a solid red LED on the front panel of the drive. All other errors result in the blinking red LED.
eSATA
eSATA is an external interface technology that grew from the internal SATA I interface
The Studio mini eSATA port supports speeds up to 6 Gb/sec (600 MB/sec), much faster than FireWire 400 or FireWire 800
Shielded eSATA cables up to 2 meters in length are available
eSATA cables are different than SATA I cables, they are shielded and cannot be used with internal SATA I connectors
eSATA uses a "point-to-point" connection, therefore each eSATA drive needs to be connected to its own eSATA port
Most computers do not have built-in eSATA, so you'll need a PCI card to connect your drive with eSATA
FireWire
FireWire is an implementation of the IEEE 1394 serial bus standard. It not only supports automatic configuration ("plug and play") and hot-swapping of devices, it's fast and best of all it's reliable for audio/video as well as for computer peripherals. FireWire supports peripherals in a tree-like structure and it allows peer-to-peer device communication-e.g. between a scanner and a printer-to take place, without using system memory or the CPU.
With FireWire you can hook up to 63 devices to the same bus, with cable lengths of up to 4.5m(14') including internal cabling, allowed between devices. Its cable is convenient and can also carry power. This allows low-consumption devices to operate without a separate power cord, by using power supplied by other devices on the bus.
FireWire 800
FireWire 800 supports speeds up to 800 Mb/sec, twice as fast as FireWire 400
If your computer does not have built-in FireWire 800, you'll need a PCI card to achieve a true FireWire 800 connection
Most 800 ports are Bi-Lingual, which means they speak both FireWire 400 and FireWire 800
If you connect a 400 device to an 800 device, you will be running at 400 speed maximum FireWire is forward-compatible and back-compatible
Beta cables are used to connect 800 devices to 800 devices
Bi-Lingual cables are available to connect 400 devices to 800 devices
Bi-Lingual cables have a 9-pin Bi-Lingual connector at one end and a 4-pin or 6-pin FireWire 400 connector at the other end
Content Creation Applications
Qualified with Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere and all major audio production packages that support FireWire storage, including Digidesign Pro Tools, Steinberg Nuendo and Cubase, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Cakewalk Sonar, Sony Vegas.