Opening a Glyph key?

[Frank Kruse]

Hi,

has someone ever exchanged the drive inside a Glyph FW key carrier? Is this an easy task or does it need to be shipped to Glyph?

It seems to have some very exotic screws on the bottom so I was wondering if this is possible for the end-user.

Thanks,

frank.

[minister]

Hi Frank,

Not sure what kind of screws those are becasue I don't have one of those drives, but, you can get all kinds of "other" bits at a good Hardware store. In the states we have SPBIT, TBIT, SBIT etc. Essentually star bits or square bits. i have purchased these before for the odd job. maybe hit up the hardware store -- or a really good computer store that sells electronic stuff and cabling and tools.

Good Luck!

Tom

[Craig F]

one of these bits work?

[Frank Kruse]

Maybe you misunderstood. I´m not primarily looking for the exact tool. I just wanted to know if you can exchange the drive inside a glyph key at all or if the thing is sealed so people don´t "upgrade" a small key themselves.

frank.

[minister]

Ah. I misunderstood. Don't know the answer to your query.

[Craig F]

I have changed drives out in older Glyph cases (the one that looked like the original mBox, it had some limitation to what it would support, but it was old) so I would assume that it is possible

[ProgAcoustics]

Originally Posted by Frank Kruse

Maybe you misunderstood. I´m not primarily looking for the exact tool. I just wanted to know if you can exchange the drive inside a glyph key at all or if the thing is sealed so people don´t "upgrade" a small key themselves.

frank.

We did a couple of times here and it works fine. Very easy to do, but I think it could ruin your warranty...

Francis

[audiogeek1]

We do it all the time. We use the glyph GT 050 drives and get the 300 drives. We then buy seagate 1 tb Sata drives and replace. We like the cases but it is cheaper and fits into supply budget better this way.

Mike

[Frank Kruse]

Originally Posted by audiogeek1

We do it all the time. We use the glyph GT 050 drives and get the 300 drives. We then buy seagate 1 tb Sata drives and replace. We like the cases but it is cheaper and fits into supply budget better this way.

Mike

I was talking about the Glyph Keys (the swap out carriers) not the fixed drive boxes.

http://www.glyphtech.com/products/gtkey.html

frank.

[Shifted Music]

I know this is old but I wanted to revisit as I also want to know if replacing the drive in the Gt Key is possible...

Also I was wondering if the connections on the older FW400 Gt Key was Sata or if it could take IDE Drives?

Do you know if its possible to purchase empty Gt Keys? Either FW400 or 800?