Pro Tools and External Hard Drive

You have a Mac and PT8. What is your interface? Why can't you use a USB hard drive? If the interface is USB then yes you'll need a firewire or preferably eSATA external or additional internal (on it's own cable). Do you have a firewire port?

There is no good reason why you couldn't use a usb drive that was 7200 rpm. I haven't seen an iMac so don't know the feasability of adding a second internal drive. Firewire would be a better protocol but not a deal killer. If you did go firewire you would run to the hard drive and chain from it to the 002.

I go from a laptop to an external hard drive via firewire 800 and then from the hard drive to My OO3r via FW400. Everything plays nicely.



I don't think Digi recommends USB via the 002 (don't quote me) It may be possible, but I think you'd have drop out problems. You also probably don't need that large of an external hard drive, but if you're buying new stick to Digi's specs. I've got a rackmounted Glyph that doesn't blink.



Phil

glyph 100%, never had an issue, ever!

Glyph is as much a standard in audio and video editing as anything. I have many Glyph drives including a pair of 051's. Your initial post spoke of not wanting to spend money which of course is sometimes counterproductive.

Oops. As to size, my recording drives are all in the 60-100gb range. After the project is recorded I transfer the audio to large storage drives like your 1tb usb drive.

Damn phones. Take two shorter.



I don't think USB3 will change the game much. eSATA is still a better protocol with SATA6 and the interface industry is likely to skip USB3 in favor of the new light protocol.

In my home rack I have a GT050Q (Storage) and a GT051 chained together. In my mobile location rack I have a GT051. The 051 allows easy transfer of files/audio from the location rack to the house rack via the key drives. If you don't transfer between computers then obviously any of the 050Q series or the Portagig series will be rockin just fine.



The Glyph will only come with 7200 Seagate HDD. They don't do an SSD option. If you really want the schizzle though, Glyph does a RAID drive box that is nice (062 maybe?). I don't use it as I find the normal version perfectly adequate. You could bust open a Glyph box and put an SSD in but I don't know that there is an advantage to that unless you're in a very high vibrational environment. In which case don't put any more quarters in the bed........

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"USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic. Avoid using USB drives, as they are known for causing a variety of errors. "

In my home rack I have a Glyph GT050Q - for regular archiving, and a GT062E RAID used for audio and video production - set up with simple RAID 1 redundancy, and a portable Glyph Companion to transfer big projects to and from the laptop.



And there's a Glyph Project-X hooked up to the old computer.



I also have 2 x G-RAID (brandname) external drives (one has been trouble-free, the other has burned me twice with total failure and complete data loss).





I won't buy any more drives that aren't made by Glyph. They're well worth a little extra.

Of course, this is OS and interface specific as Digi actually recommends the opposite in other circumstances. Also Digi was not known for wanting particularly to make things work once they found a good combination of components. The user forums can attest to that.



At any rate, firewire is definitely better in general application for most computer/interface combinations barring specific manufacturer recommendations to the contrary. eSATA still reigns king of the hill however.

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I am not sure what Sweetwater is selling them for, but they do give a 2 year in house warranty. Meaning that when you have an issue they handle it and it does not have to go through glyph. Saved my butt a couple times since leaving there.

Bear in mind also that B&H often drop ships orders. Meaning they don't actually have them in stock to ship. At least 90% of the stuff I order from them seems to have to be backordered. I still use them quite a bit. Actually I use both quite a bit.

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