The Glyph Atom Pro SSD: A Solid Companion for Your MacBook Pro

In this article, we'll take a closer look at the Glyph Atom Pro SSD and its performance capabilities. This device is designed to complement the MacBook Pro, offering excellent speed, build quality, drop protection, cable storage, and more.

A Closer Look at the Device Inside

The Glyph Atom Pro SSD boasts a Western Digital Black PC 750 NVMe SSD with one terabyte of storage. The drive's specifications are impressive, capable of speeds up to 28 hundred megabytes per second over Thunderbolt 3. This means that the device can transfer files quickly and efficiently, making it an excellent choice for editing, 4K, and even 8K workflows.

Testing the Drive's Performance

To gauge the drive's performance, we used the Black Magic Disk Speed Test Tool to test its speed in read and write operations. The results were impressive: the drive achieved speeds of approximately 2200 megabytes per second in read and write operations, with minimal throttling even after sustaining high-speed testing for 8 minutes.

Consistency is Key

One of the standout features of the Glyph Atom Pro SSD is its consistency. In multiple tests, including the Black Magic Disk Speed Test Tool and the Aegis System Test Light, the drive performed remarkably well, showing consistent speeds throughout the test period. This indicates that the device can handle demanding workloads without significant degradation in performance.

The Drive's Cooling System

One notable feature of the Glyph Atom Pro SSD is its passive cooling system. The device is built with an all-metal design that acts as a giant heatsink, helping to keep the drive cool even under intense use. This means that users won't have to worry about overheating or throttling due to thermal issues.

The Drive's Compatibility and Build Quality

In terms of compatibility, the Glyph Atom Pro SSD features a Thunderbolt 3 interface, making it easy to connect to MacBooks and other devices that support this technology. The device also boasts an aluminum enclosure with a rugged bumper, providing excellent drop protection against accidental drops or bumps. This makes it a great option for users who need a reliable and durable storage solution.

Comparison to Competitors

For those considering alternative options, the Samsung T7 Touch is another notable SSD worth mentioning. While it's not as fast as the Glyph Atom Pro SSD, it offers similar reliability and durability at a lower price point. Ultimately, the choice between these devices will depend on individual needs and priorities.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the Glyph Atom Pro SSD is an excellent companion for your MacBook Pro. Its impressive performance capabilities, combined with its passive cooling system, rugged design, and Thunderbolt 3 compatibility, make it an ideal choice for users who need fast storage solutions. Whether you're a professional editor or a content creator, this device is sure to deliver consistent results and reliable performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going folks this is Jeff Benjamin in this video we go hands-on with the glyph atom pro SSD and as you can see this Thunderbolt 3 SSD is no slouch in the speed department thanks for watching nine-to-five Mac be sure to thumbs up click the subscribe button and then enable notifications with the bill icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so here is the glyph atom pro SSD this is a one terabyte Thunderbolt 3 nvme SSD we've reviewed some glyph products before I think we reviewed one of their raid SSDs back in the day and when I hear the name glyph there's one thing that really pops into my mind and that is build quality and we'll talk about that in a second as you can see dimensions 3.1 by 5 point 2 5 by 0.75 inches thick and this device is bus powered it comes with a built-in Thunderbolt 3 cable actually not totally built-in but you'll see what I mean and also comes with that rugged bumper there is the Thunderbolt 3 cable it stores away inside that bumper which is really cool and like I said I'll show you how all that works here in just a second so let's go ahead and get it on box here it is folks that Thunderbolt 3 cables stored away now to get it out you just simply pull on the bumper like that and that the two little ends pop out just like you saw there and it's it's kind of clever now the only I guess you could say downside to that is that the cable is gonna be fairly short at only about 10 inches total so just keep that in mind again this is Thunderbolt 3 so you can't connect it to just a USB C port and expect it to work it does have to be connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your MacBook or your Mac Pro so here is the underside with the bumper taken off you can see the little feet to keep it from sliding around your desk so you could use it like this if you want to you see the LED indicator there as well and here's the drive compared to one of its closest competitors the Samsung x5 you see the X 5 here and the glyph Atom Pro SSD here so these devices are very close in size now let's go into the nvme Express in the system profiler and fine or drive here it is so this is a WDS 100 t3-x OC whatever that means right look that up on Google and then you can see that this is actually a Western Digital black pcs in 750 and vme SSD one terabyte Western Digital black SSD so that's what's inside this thing and those drives are a fairly speedy and that's gonna really saturate that Thunderbolt 3 interface capable of speeds up to twenty eight hundred megabytes per second over Thunderbolt 3 and we're gonna run some speed test to see how this thing actually performs so here's the black magic disk speed test tool we'll go ahead and select our glyph one terabyte and open and then click start what I'm really interested in is to see how this thing performs over sustain testing will it throttle a lot you can see you the speed is very fast both didn't read and write write about 2200 megabytes a second read about 2400 and I'm speeding this up over 8 minutes and you can see there's really no throttling here at all it's pretty much fast over this entire span of 8 minutes it's pretty much stays the same over that entire span so you're not experiencing a whole bunch of slowdown due to heat which is very important for a drive that's passively cooled because the m-dot 2 blade inside this thing will get extremely hot when under load but this chassis does a really good job of keeping the drive cool in fact it's cool to the touch even after sustained testing here so right speed isn't as good here on the aegis system test light though so you kind of drop there but it is consistent that's the thing and Reed is very consistent as well this is 16 gigabyte test and like I did before we're gonna speed this up over 8 minutes and you can see it's consistent there isn't any like major major drops after sistene read and write testing as you can see there so very impressive given the fact that there is no sort of cooling in here it's all possible things to the design of the drive itself which is all metal and it works as a giant heatsink okay so a couple of more tests we're going to do it right and read test in finder just dragging and dropping a about a hundred and seven gigabyte file sped this up again and it takes about 60 seconds to transfer that file so very speedy but what we really want to pay attention to is how the drive performs near the end of the transfer because initially a lot of drives are really fast upfront but as they heat up they start to throttle down well I wanted to see if the same thing would happen with this drive so it took about sixty three seconds to read this 107 gigabyte file sped this up a little bit you can see it's still just as fast near the end of the file transfer and when I perform a speed test right after that file transfer you could still see that the Spees haven't slowed down it at all now I'm not saying that this SSD will never throttle but as you can see from the testing it performs very well stays consistent even when stressed out this is going to be a solid device for editing for k6k maybe even 8k workflows on the go with your MacBook Pro and I love the fact that it has that still wait under both three cable that easily snaps out and is ready to use just by pulling all the sides of the bumper that's kind of clever and it just pulls right out like that so the glyph atom pro SSD makes for a great MacBook Pro companion it's bus powered passively cooled the rugged bumper although a lint magnet does give it excellent drop protection and the outer aluminum enclosure itself is basically a giant heatsink so this thing can work at full speed consistently and as you can see it's also very small although not as small as the samsung t7 touch speaking of which I think the Samsung t7 touch in the t5 make a lot of sense for a lot of users being just a standard USB 3.2 gen to drive it is not as fast as the cliff atom pro SSD however the Samsung Drive is significantly cheaper and a lot of users may find that it's fast enough for their workflows although it's obviously nowhere near as fast has the atom pro SSD so a lot to consider your speed build quality drop protection cable storage if you're transferring very large files on a regular basis the cliff Adam Pro SSD is a solid option what do you guys think let me know down below in the comments this is Jeff with a 905 Machow's it going folks this is Jeff Benjamin in this video we go hands-on with the glyph atom pro SSD and as you can see this Thunderbolt 3 SSD is no slouch in the speed department thanks for watching nine-to-five Mac be sure to thumbs up click the subscribe button and then enable notifications with the bill icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so here is the glyph atom pro SSD this is a one terabyte Thunderbolt 3 nvme SSD we've reviewed some glyph products before I think we reviewed one of their raid SSDs back in the day and when I hear the name glyph there's one thing that really pops into my mind and that is build quality and we'll talk about that in a second as you can see dimensions 3.1 by 5 point 2 5 by 0.75 inches thick and this device is bus powered it comes with a built-in Thunderbolt 3 cable actually not totally built-in but you'll see what I mean and also comes with that rugged bumper there is the Thunderbolt 3 cable it stores away inside that bumper which is really cool and like I said I'll show you how all that works here in just a second so let's go ahead and get it on box here it is folks that Thunderbolt 3 cables stored away now to get it out you just simply pull on the bumper like that and that the two little ends pop out just like you saw there and it's it's kind of clever now the only I guess you could say downside to that is that the cable is gonna be fairly short at only about 10 inches total so just keep that in mind again this is Thunderbolt 3 so you can't connect it to just a USB C port and expect it to work it does have to be connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your MacBook or your Mac Pro so here is the underside with the bumper taken off you can see the little feet to keep it from sliding around your desk so you could use it like this if you want to you see the LED indicator there as well and here's the drive compared to one of its closest competitors the Samsung x5 you see the X 5 here and the glyph Atom Pro SSD here so these devices are very close in size now let's go into the nvme Express in the system profiler and fine or drive here it is so this is a WDS 100 t3-x OC whatever that means right look that up on Google and then you can see that this is actually a Western Digital black pcs in 750 and vme SSD one terabyte Western Digital black SSD so that's what's inside this thing and those drives are a fairly speedy and that's gonna really saturate that Thunderbolt 3 interface capable of speeds up to twenty eight hundred megabytes per second over Thunderbolt 3 and we're gonna run some speed test to see how this thing actually performs so here's the black magic disk speed test tool we'll go ahead and select our glyph one terabyte and open and then click start what I'm really interested in is to see how this thing performs over sustain testing will it throttle a lot you can see you the speed is very fast both didn't read and write write about 2200 megabytes a second read about 2400 and I'm speeding this up over 8 minutes and you can see there's really no throttling here at all it's pretty much fast over this entire span of 8 minutes it's pretty much stays the same over that entire span so you're not experiencing a whole bunch of slowdown due to heat which is very important for a drive that's passively cooled because the m-dot 2 blade inside this thing will get extremely hot when under load but this chassis does a really good job of keeping the drive cool in fact it's cool to the touch even after sustained testing here so right speed isn't as good here on the aegis system test light though so you kind of drop there but it is consistent that's the thing and Reed is very consistent as well this is 16 gigabyte test and like I did before we're gonna speed this up over 8 minutes and you can see it's consistent there isn't any like major major drops after sistene read and write testing as you can see there so very impressive given the fact that there is no sort of cooling in here it's all possible things to the design of the drive itself which is all metal and it works as a giant heatsink okay so a couple of more tests we're going to do it right and read test in finder just dragging and dropping a about a hundred and seven gigabyte file sped this up again and it takes about 60 seconds to transfer that file so very speedy but what we really want to pay attention to is how the drive performs near the end of the transfer because initially a lot of drives are really fast upfront but as they heat up they start to throttle down well I wanted to see if the same thing would happen with this drive so it took about sixty three seconds to read this 107 gigabyte file sped this up a little bit you can see it's still just as fast near the end of the file transfer and when I perform a speed test right after that file transfer you could still see that the Spees haven't slowed down it at all now I'm not saying that this SSD will never throttle but as you can see from the testing it performs very well stays consistent even when stressed out this is going to be a solid device for editing for k6k maybe even 8k workflows on the go with your MacBook Pro and I love the fact that it has that still wait under both three cable that easily snaps out and is ready to use just by pulling all the sides of the bumper that's kind of clever and it just pulls right out like that so the glyph atom pro SSD makes for a great MacBook Pro companion it's bus powered passively cooled the rugged bumper although a lint magnet does give it excellent drop protection and the outer aluminum enclosure itself is basically a giant heatsink so this thing can work at full speed consistently and as you can see it's also very small although not as small as the samsung t7 touch speaking of which I think the Samsung t7 touch in the t5 make a lot of sense for a lot of users being just a standard USB 3.2 gen to drive it is not as fast as the cliff atom pro SSD however the Samsung Drive is significantly cheaper and a lot of users may find that it's fast enough for their workflows although it's obviously nowhere near as fast has the atom pro SSD so a lot to consider your speed build quality drop protection cable storage if you're transferring very large files on a regular basis the cliff Adam Pro SSD is a solid option what do you guys think let me know down below in the comments this is Jeff with a 905 Mac\n"