Glyph Technologies Now Shipping GPT50 Production Quality Hard Drive

March 3rd, 2012 by David Weiss

Glyph Technologies, based in Cortland, NY, announced it has begun shipping the GPT50.

The GPT50 is Glyph’s latest in a line of rugged tabletop hard drives built for production environments. Based on a 3.5-inch 7200 RPM hard drive, the GPT50 features a sturdy, metal enclosure with an internal power supply and smart-fan. It is 33% smaller in size than its predecessor, the GTO50Q, making it more portable and convenient, and its updated recyclable packaging creates less waste.

The GPT50 is available with capacities of 500GB (MSRP: $259), 1TB (MSRP: $309), 2TB (MSRP: $399), and 3TB (MSRP: $529), and a 4TB model will also be available soon.

More info from Glyph on this compact new drive:

“The GTP50 uses a temperature-controlled fan making it overall quieter than previous designs, while still offering excellent cooling. The case is designed with front-panel ventilation holes to draw cool air in, while exhausting warm air out the back – critical to the performance and reliability of the components.

Many tabletop drives use a proprietary “wall-wart” style power supply. Wall-warts can become easily misplaced, or accidentally unplugged from the drive, and take up valuable outlet space. The GPT50 uses an industry-standard IEC power cord and pro-quality internal power supply for the most efficient and reliable power source possible. With eSATA, FireWire 800, and USB2.0 ports on the GPT50, users can transfer data over the fastest interface available on their computer. Compatible with Macintosh, Windows and UNIX operating systems, the GPT50 offers great performance with up to 140 MB/sec read and write data transfer rates using a fast eSATA adapter.

Designed to keep data safe, the intelligent power switch must be held for 3 seconds to power off the GPT50, guarding against unintended power-off. The front-panel multifunction LED shows drive power status, activity, and also warns of a failing hard drive. For production environments that require rack-mounted gear, Glyph provides a rack kit to mount one or two GPT50 drives in a single rack space.”