Lorenz Rychner from Recording Magazine recently had a chance to work with the GT 062E, “I didn’t come close to maxxing out the capabilities of the GT 062E at my place. It is good to know that it was built to handle many more tracks and realtime demands than I can throw at it. Glyph keeps testing its products with a variety of DAWs, so if you tell them exactly what your demands are, they will know what you are talking about. Sure, we can all buy small and inexpensive 1-Terabyte drives for all kinds of non-critical purposes, but for real- time data exchange where the slightest hiccup would be a disaster, something as solid as the GT 062E is a must.” Check out the whole review here.

Glyph GT 062E drive performs with maximum reliability in tests with BLACKBOX RECORDER

Cambridge, UK, and Ithaca (NY), USA, 25th May 2010 – Following the recent addition of a formatting utility in the BLACKBOX RECORDER, UK manufacturer JoeCo has carried out a series of tests on selected disk drives to evaluate their effectiveness in live performance situations. With reliability high on the agenda for the 24-channel live multi-track recorder manufacturer, Glyph Technologies’ new GT 062E drive has gained top marks, accompanying the BBR to both NAMM 2010 and the Frankfurt Musikmesse.

Glyph’s GT 062E is a professional-grade storage solution designed for audio and video editing, content creation and live recording. It has two hard drives inside, and can be configured in several different drive modes, selectable using the Glyph Manager software utility. When configured in RAID 1 mode, data is copied redundantly to both drives. Should a drive failure happen, data is still available on the remaining drive. Peter Glanville, Director of Marketing at Glyph Technologies explains why the GT 062E is valuable for BLACKBOX RECORDER users:

“The BLACKBOX RECORDER packs huge recording power into a small package, and requires fast, reliable storage. Our 062E is a perfect fit for this application - it’s built with a steel enclosure designed for the use and abuse of the road, it’s rack-mountable, and ships with a hardshell carrying case. We’re really pleased to find that the 062E has performed so successfully with the BLACKBOX RECORDER.”

As the BLACKBOX RECORDER commences a busy summer of international festivals and tours, JoeCo Managing Director Joe Bull has been keen to monitor the stand-alone capability of the unit, which records 24 channels of 24 bit / 96kHz multi-channel audio (in Broadcast WAV format) directly onto a FAT32 formatted drive, without the need to have a computer at the performance.

“After a brief familiarization period, I successfully re-formatted the GT 062E drive to FAT32 configured as RAID 1, directly from the BLACKBOX RECORDER” he said. “The BBR’s new formatting facility doesn’t restrict you to maximum partitions of 32GB under FAT32 (unlike Windows) and the RAID technology means that even in the unlikely event of a disk failure, there’s still a backup in the same unit to ensure that the live recording continues uninterrupted. For a busy FOH engineer, knowing that your live recording process is 100% secure is a major consideration. The GT 062E has performed flawlessly and we are pleased to become one of Glyph’s compatible hardware partners.”

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Notes for editors

JoeCo was established in 2007 by Joe Bull, former owner and Managing Director of SADiE. Based near the beautiful university city of Cambridge in the UK, the company’s research and development activity has focussed on its innovative BLACKBOX RECORDER for capturing live multi-track performance. JoeCo is currently represented in over 30 countries via a network of international distributors.

JoeCo Ltd. 135 Histon Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8UQ, UK.
www.joeco.co.uk

Technical enquiries: International media enquiries:
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 911 000 Stephanie Sobey-Jones
Email: info@joeco.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 7967 556027
Email: steph@stephaniesobey-jones.com

Glyph Technologies was founded in 1993 to be a bridge between the A/V production industry and the computer storage industry. Glyph has grown consistently over the years to become the dominant provider of data storage solutions to the U.S. and European digital audio recording and postproduction industries. Headquartered in Ithaca, NY, Glyph established a European operation (Glyph Europe) in 2006, based in Brüggen, Germany.

Glyph USA, 3736 Kellogg Rd,
Cortland, NY 13045, USA.
Tel: +1 607-275-0345
www.glyphtech.com

International media enquiries:
Peter Glanville, Director of Marketing
Tel: +1 607-275-0345 x1603
Email: pglanville@glyphtech.com

Barry Rudolph, who writes for Music Connection and Mix Magazine, recently added two GT 062E drives to his arsenal of Glyph storage. “The GT 062E has two hard drives running inside but you wouldn’t know it by its quiet operation. My two new GT 062E drives now makes four Glyph drive units in my Pro Tools HD Accel rig. I figured out long ago that, to assuage my fears of losing record company assets due to a drive failure, I needed the “real deal”–professional level hard drive storage.” Read more in the latest digital edition of Music Connection Magazine, or stop by Barry Rudolph’s site for the story.

New York, NY — At the AES 2009 convention, Glyph will be announcing and demonstrating two new products, the GT 062E and ForteRAID. Both are RAID protected storage solutions, and share an updated storage user interface, Glyph Manager 4.

GT 062E is the next generation of the very successful GT 062, a dual-drive tabletop RAID storage solution. The GT 062E improves on the original design by adding an eSATA port which provides for speeds over 230MB/s in RAID 0 mode. Using the industry-proven Oxford 936 chip, the GT 062E provides FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports, in addition to eSATA. With the new chip, higher capacity drives are now supported, allowing RAID 0 and Spanning capacities up to 4TB in a tabletop enclosure. Additionally, the front panel LED blinks red if there is a potential problem with the internal drives, regardless of the drive mode used, alerting the user to open the Glyph Manager software for more diagnostic information. The GT 062E is configurable in three drive modes: RAID 0, RAID 1, and Spanning, and can be rack mounted by itself or with a second GT Series tabletop.

ForteRAID is a four-drive tower with FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. Also employing the Oxford 936 controller, the ForteRAID can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and Spanning modes. Removable drives makes it a breeze to swap if one should fail, and Glyph Manager provides a GUI to monitor the health of the chassis and drives. ForteRAID can be configured as RAID 0 with up to 8TB for video production environments, and has been tested with the leading video production software packages. Audio production users may choose to setup the unit in RAID 5 or RAID 10 mode, both of which are fault-tolerant modes, and can survive a disk failure without loosing valuable data.

The GT 062E will be the first of Glyph’s new products to ship with Glyph Manager 4 software, which has greatly expanded in functionality since the last version. A software utility for setting the drive mode, Glyph Manager 4 also displays health status of the Glyph case and drives inside, and functions over USB, FireWire, and eSATA. The new version reports case temperature, fan speed, individual drives’ health status and temperature, as well as any drive errors or rebuild failures. Glyph Manager constantly monitors drive health as a background task using S.M.A.R.T. commands, and if a problem is detected, it alerts the user by blinking the front LED red, and bouncing an icon in the Mac OS X dock or displaying an error balloon from the Windows System Tray. By predicting drive failure, you have a chance to backup your data before any is lost.

For more information, visit us in AES booth 246, or www.glyphtech.com