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Glyph recently unveiled its Atom EX40 and Atom EX20, two cutting-edge portable SSDs meticulously crafted for high-intensity creative tasks. The company highlights that, unlike many conventional SSDs whose specifications may not fully reflect their real-world performance limitations, their new Atom EX series is purpose-built to excel under the most demanding professional conditions, ensuring unwavering reliability and speed.
Glyph clarifies that their definition of "high-intensity" extends far beyond mere marketing jargon. It signifies a product engineered for real-world production environments where long recording sessions, massive file transfers, and continuous write operations are the norm. Crucially, these drives are designed to maintain their exceptional speed consistently, hour after hour, and across terabytes of data, effectively preventing performance degradation due to thermal throttling or cache limitations.
The Atom EX series offers two distinct performance tiers to cater to diverse professional needs. The Atom EX20 utilizes the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface, achieving impressive read and write speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s. While this interface is less common and may not be fully exploited by all devices, particularly Apple computers, it still delivers ample speed for many photography professionals. For those requiring even greater throughput, the Atom EX40 leverages USB-4 connectivity, delivering blistering read and write speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s. This makes it an ideal solution for demanding workflows such as 8K or 12K video production, raw photo and video editing, virtual reality content creation, and multi-camera setups. The Atom EX40's USB-4 connection also offers broad compatibility with older USB protocols and Thunderbolt 3, 4, and 5 ports.
Both the Atom EX20 and EX40 are equipped with an enhanced thermal management system, featuring a robust aluminum core and outer casing. This design significantly improves heat dissipation from internal components, ensuring sustained high transfer speeds and enhancing the overall longevity and reliability of the drives. Glyph emphasizes that their design philosophy prioritizes continuous throughput over misleading peak performance metrics, addressing a common frustration for creative professionals who experience performance bottlenecks when caches fill or heat accumulates.
Glyph stands behind its Atom EX SSDs with a robust "3-2-1 warranty," providing three years of hardware coverage, two years of essential data protection services, and a one-year replacement policy in the event of product failure. These high-performance SSDs are available in various capacities, ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The Atom EX20 starts at a price point of $250, while the more advanced Atom EX40 begins at $350, offering tailored solutions for every creative professional's budget and performance requirements.



