Studio edition 1 tb external hard drive usb

Continue Reading. The original external hard drive for content creators. With USB 3. Professional-grade power supplies and autonomous cooling systems keep your data safe and available. Studio is backed with a full 3 year warranty, including 2 years of level-1 data recovery, and one year of advance replacement service.

Glyph Studio has been designed from the ground up to provide the fastest performance, ultimate reliability, and a simple, elegant experience throughout your creative process.

First we select the highest quality components available. Then we assemble the drives in our US factory, and perform regimented testing on every unit before it ships to you. A simple reformat is all it takes for the Glyph Studio to work with Windows systems.

Follow us for upcoming events, product giveaways, special deals, and to see Glyph drives in action. Skip to main content. Data Storage Solutions for [ Professionals ]. Producing drives for over 20 Years. New York-Based. More About Us. Studio External Hard Drive The original external hard drive for content creators. Drive Speed 7, RPM. The backup software uses Memeo technology. Unfortunately it's dropped FTP backup since the last revision, and doesn't support incremental backups -- the best offer being overwriting changed files between backups.

Admittedly at the consumer level, usually this is more than enough. For the first time that we can remember, software for both Mac and PC are included with identical functionality thanks to Memeo -- this is a huge plus, although we would have liked a software CD included as well. Installing the supplied WD Button Manager software and connecting over Firewire or USB also gives you a visual indication of how full your drive is, using the light strip on the front.

In practice, this didn't seem frightfully accurate or frequently updated, so it's worth simply checking the properties in Explorer. Quite hilariously, the manual states "do not use My Book as a portable device".

A five year warranty means the external drive is at least well protected should you choose to do so. Performance We tested the 1TB version, which houses Western Digital's RPM drive -- slower than the competing RPM drives, but should also mean it's quieter and generates less heat -- indeed, the My Book Studio Edition is completely fanless, although you can hear the drive crunch during heavy disk operations.

While we didn't have a Firewire port to test with, performance over USB2. Currently Western Digital's only TB drive has a power saving feature built in that varies the spindle speed between RPM and RPM, with a focus on power saving rather than performance -- we can only surmise that this is the cause of the underperforming eSATA results. On the up side -- you get a quiet and cool external drive that's perfect for most people's uses. Craig Simms. The Good No fans.

Little heat. Huge capacity.