User Manual

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About Your G–DRIVE with Thunderbolt About Your G–DRIVE with Thunderbolt
Overview of the Drive
This diagram shows the helpful features of your G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt. There is a
Power & Activity LED on the front of the unit and a Heat Sink beneath it. The activity LED
will glow when the unit is switched on. It will ash brighter as data is transferred to or
from the hard drive.
On the rear of the unit is a Kensington™ security slot, a USB 3.0 port, a Thunderbolt port,
a DC Power In and an On/O Switch.
System Requirements
G-DRIVE with Thunderbolt supports the following Operating Systems. The drive
is set up at the factory for use with Mac OS® systems, and formatted as ‘HFS+ with
Journaling’.
• Mac® OS 10.7 +
• Windows® 8, 7
NOTE: G-DRIVE models larger than 2TB are not supported by Windows XP and older
32-bit operating systems. These OS’s are limited to a maximum volume size of 2.2TB.
Heat Sink Activity LED Kensington
Security Slot
USB 3.0
Port
Thunderbolt
Port
DC Power
Input
On/O
Switch