The Studio Hardshell Case for Studio & StudioRAID Hard Drives by Glyph Technologies provides rugged, watertight protection for select Glyph Technology hard drives, so that you can take them everywhere without worrying about damage to the drive. A custom dense foam interior provides padding and protection for your drive and cables, and the watertight hard shell provides an assurance that your Glyph drive will arrive safely no matter where you're going.

4TB Storage Capacity    7200 rpm Disk Speed    Up to 184 MB/s Transfer Speed    USB 3.0 / FireWire 800 / eSATA Ports    Quiet Intelligent Cooling Fan    Auto-Sensing Power    Hardshell Case for Hard Drives    Protects Studio & StudioRAID Brands    Watertight Protection, Foam Padding    Preformatted HFS+ for Mac

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. I see a power button in the pictures...so can I power it on/off, or does it only do whatever the computer is doing? thanks.

A: yes, the power button allows you to turn it on or off. with my mac, the drive will turn on when I turn the computer on, but the drive doesn't power down when I turn off the computer. power button turns it off. Great drive. I have several. Only drives I'll use Hope this info is helpful.

Q: 2. Is this drive have the option of being bus-powered?

A: No, it comes with a built in power supply which takes the supplied 3 prong AC cable. They do offer smaller portable bus powered drives that work well.

Q: 3. made in which country this product ?

A: Glyph Production Technology provides reliable external hard drives and SSDs that are designed, tested and built in the USA.

Q: 4. how long is the USB 3.0 cable?

A: about 38

Q: 5. Can this drive be formatted as 2 2T volumes, and if so how does that affect data transfer rate?

A: If using on a Mac, the answer is 1) Yes, you can format into multiple partitions and 2) Its possible that partitioning could lower performance when both partitions are being used simultaneously, meaning both volumes are either reading and or writing at the same time. This performance hit may not be much more than reading/writing to two different directories/folders on a single partition. It could also depend on how a particular file system stores data on the various OS's available to you.

Q: 6. is the Fan noisy ? can you hear it in a quiet studio ?

A: The internal fans are designed to run very quietly.

Q: 7. This drive shows up when I select USB-Powered in the search criteria. Actually, several AC-powered drives show up in the results when I select USB-Powered . You should fix that.Oh, it has to be a question? OK, are you _trying_ to be misleading, or was it accidental?

A: This is an excellent hard drive, one of the best I have had. It is ac powered.

Q: 8. Ok, it will work with Mac os 10.4 or later like their other drives?? I have firwire 400 and USB 2.0 ports on my old Mac G4. Will it work with an adaptor for the cable??

A: USB 3 is backward compatible with USB 2 so it will work, just not as fast.

Q: 9. Can this unit be daisy chained via firewire?

A: Yes, the Glyph Technologies 4TB Studio 7200 rpm USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-B External Hard Drive can be daisy chained via FireWire.

Q: 10. Will the 1tb be faster at 7200rpm than this 2tb version at only 5400rpm?

A: For me look like it is faster. Depends of your needs. Music PictureFiles..