At Home with Tech

When you buy a new Mac, it’s always a good idea to get a new external hard drive to go with it to handle and back up your files. I decided to go with a new brand, and here’s the drive I chose.

I’ve been a big fan of G-Technology external hard drives for years. I’ve always used G-Tech drives for my iMacs’ Time Machine backups. Plus, I’ve got a G-Raid drive to handle my important video and photo files.

You can’t store everything on your computer’s internal hard drive. So, it’s important to have a reliable external drive solution in place.

Many computer geeks swear by one brand of drives. Mine was always G-Tech.

Goodbye G-Technology
Then G-Technology was bought by Western Digital. And now the G-Tech brand itself is being discontinued in favor of “SanDisk Professional.” Plus, the specific drives I’m looking for are recently hard to find. More importantly, I just logged on to B&H’s website, and some of them are getting terrible reviews (gulp).

Maybe it’s time to find a new best friend in hard drives. I don’t want to be the one to give you a cautionary tale.

Hello Glyph Production Technologies
A few weeks back, I wanted to buy a new external drive to go along with my new Mac Studio. (Yay… Barrett’s new computer!)

And coincidentally, a work colleague happened to tell me about a digital data storage manufacturer that he likes for his MacBook Pro drives. The company is called Glyph Production Technologies.

Yes, Glyph. (I hadn’t heard of them either.)

So, I looked it up, and Glyph has been around for 29 years making lots of external hard drives.

I opened a new window and went back to B&H to review the various Glyph drives.

Glyph Blackbox Plus
I came upon the 4TB SSD Glyph Blackbox Plus for $299.95.

Sure, that’s kind of pricey, but don’t forget it’s an SSD, which makes it faster and supposedly more durable/long lasting. (Yes, I sometimes say a prayer to the computer-protection gods to look kindly over my backups.)

Why not give Glyph a shot, right? (It comes well recommended, and the B&H reviews are good.)
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As I write this, B&H is now temporarily out of stock on its Glyph Blackbox Plus SSD drives, but if you can use the 1TB version, you can find it on Amazon for $99.95.

My New G Drive is a Glyph
Happily, my new Glyph Blackbox Plus has been working just fine (though I would expect it to in its early months/years). The more important factor is to buy into a brand I trust. That of course will also take some time, though I feel I’m off to a good start.

And it doesn’t hurt that I’m apparently in good company.

Ultimately, I’m pleased to report that Glyph is the ‘G’ in my new G Drive relationship.