{"id":10111,"date":"2017-07-07T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/takenote\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:52:30","slug":"gear-review-atom-ssd-glyph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/gear-review-atom-ssd-glyph\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom Solid State Drive SSD by Glyph (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-the-glyph-atom-ssd-ensures-fast-reliable-multi-track-audio-sessions-for-producers\">Why the Glyph Atom SSD Ensures Fast, Reliable Multi-Track Audio Sessions for Producers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a dependable hard drive for your projects is a really, <em><strong>really<\/strong><\/em> important part of your music production rig. It\u2019s where you will be storing your work, session files that represent countless hours of work, blood, sweat, and tears. So why would you keep your work on an inexpensive hard drive? That\u2019s like affixing your masterpiece on newsprint; I can guarantee you that it\u2019s going to fall apart sooner rather than later. Take it from personal experience: those inexpensive, consumer level drives can\u2019t handle the demands of large, multi-track audio sessions on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/faculty\/erik-%22hawk%22-hawkins?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-link-from-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">TAKE A COURSE WITH ERIK HAWK!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running multi-track audio sessions on your computer\u2019s internal OS drive will eventually lead to problems as well, because your OS drive is busy with other important tasks, such as continually accessing dozens of system files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a very dependable, A\/V rated drive with a killer warranty, I\u2019ve been using the Glyph drives. Their newest SSD devices absolutely scream. They\u2019re much faster than traditional spinning hard drives &#8212; so much faster in fact that I\u2019ve taken to backing up my projects on traditional disk-based drives, but running my current multi-track sessions on an Atom 1 TB SSD. Here\u2019s my review of the new Atom SSD and some very impressive track count tests. Don\u2019t skimp on your main working hard drive. Get the best &#8212; the safety of your projects depend on it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Review of the Atom SSD by Glyph\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VM5csRNSLbc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a dependable hard drive for your projects is a really important part of your music production rig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9592],"tags":[124,571,573,591,632,633],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-technology-articles","tag-atom-ssd","tag-gear","tag-gear-review","tag-glyph","tag-hard-drive","tag-hard-drive-review"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - 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