Recording directly to a GLYPH GT050Q, with daisy chaining.

[Fryder]

Hi there!

I recently bought a FW harddrive that was pretty good. Unfortunately, it didn't work with PT9 at all. I tried everything. And the support couldn't help me either cause the drive wasn't supported by Avid.

Anyway, I sold that drive, so that problem is solved :).

Now I'm thinking about buying a GLYPH GT050Q-1000GB-7200rpm. But before I buy it, I need to be 110% sure that it works.

I have a iMac i5 2.66 GHz, running with a Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56. Since I only have one FW input in my mac, I'll have to daisy chain the drive, where you simply plug in your drive in the Focusrite 2nd FW port, (right?).

I want to record all my music directly to the Glyph drive.

So, will this work properly? I'm pretty tired of DAE error 35 and such.

Thanks!

[dougied]

Yes it will work. I have the same drive, but smaller size. I read that Pro Tools will record better if you use a 500 GB or smaller drive. It won't have so much space to search for the audio.

The Glyphs are excellent for the money and quiet too.

[nst7]

These also work great, and are less expensive:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other.../MEAQ7500GB16/

[Fryder]

Originally Posted by dougied

Yes it will work. I have the same drive, but smaller size. I read that Pro Tools will record better if you use a 500 GB or smaller drive. It won't have so much space to search for the audio.

The Glyphs are excellent for the money and quiet too.

Thanks for your reply!

I was thinking about getting the one with 500 GB first but it feels like a waste since there isn't that much price difference between them. But I'll think about it.

[bradch00]

I use a 1TB GLYPH GT050Q (into an i7 iMac) with a Lacie D2 Quad and ProjectMix I/O daisy chained. No problems.

[dougied]

I totally forgot about the OWC drives.... They are awesome as well!!!

[Fryder]

Thanks for the replies guys!

[Sting]

Originally Posted by bradch00

I use a 1TB GLYPH GT050Q (into an i7 iMac) with a Lacie D2 Quad and ProjectMix I/O daisy chained. No problems.

Hi everyone.

I'm using 11R as my interface into an APPLE iMac with 3GB of memory and 250 internal hard drive. I am running Pro Tools 8.5 within the Apple iMac's internal Hard Drive and since i have only about 40GB remaining, i am getting error messages such as CPU interfering with audio playback and so on, even though i'm only using only two or three tracks.

Am thinking about getting a Glyph GT050Q 500GB External Hard Drive and transferring everything into the Glyph and then running everything from there.

Does anyone know how to transfer everything i have on my internal hard drive into the Glyph and as i also have a 003 Rack would it run better with the external Glyph Hard drive rather than the 11R which has given me untold stability problems?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[nst7]

Your stability problems are from recording to the internal hard drive. It will help a lot to use an external. You could go with the Glyph, but I recommend the OWC Mercury Elite Pro.

Also, 3 gigs of Ram is a little light. Put 4 or more if you can.