USER MANUAL Thunderbolt Storage System with Transfer Rates up to 480MB/s Welcome to G-DRIVE PRO TB g-technology.
Table of Contents Table of Contents Welcome to G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt Table of Contents Safety & General Use Safety Precautions.................................................... 4 Backup Your Data..................................................... 5 About Your Drive Introduction............................................................... 7 What’s in the Box ..................................................... 8 System Requirements.............................................
Safety & General Use Safety & General Use Safety Precautions Backup Your Data G-DRIVE® PRO with Thunderbolt™ warranty may be void as a result of the failure to respect the precautions listed here. If you detect a problem with your drive, please contact our Technical Support department. The disk drive contained in your G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt (G-DRIVE PRO TB) device is a delicate electronic instrument and is susceptible to damage due to excessive physical shock.
About Your Drive Introduction Thank you for purchasing the G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt (G-DRIVE PRO TB) from G-Technology. Since 2004, G-Technology has provided storage for content creation professionals around the globe, and now G-DRIVE PRO TB redefines highperformance storage for content creation. Performance that was once only possible on MacPro desktop computers is now available on laptops and iMac systems thanks to Thunderbolt and G-DRIVE PRO TB. About Your Drive Introduction .......................
About Your Drive About Your Drive What’s in the Box Overview of the Drive The following items are included in the box: The images below highlight some of the features of your G-DRIVE PRO TB. There is a Power & Activity LED on the front of the unit that will glow when the unit is powered on, and will flash brighter as data is transferred to or from the hard drives.
Using Your Drive Easy Installation G-DRIVE PRO TB attaches to your laptop with the included Thunderbolt cable. Simply plug one end into the Thunderbolt connector on your laptop, and the other end into either port on the rear of G-DRIVE PRO TB. Using G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt Easy Installation ......................................... p.11 • Disconnect the Drive .............................. p.
Using Your Drive Disconnect the Drive A great feature of Thunderbolt technology and G-DRIVE PRO TB is the ability to connect and disconnect the drive while your computer is running. To prevent failures and/or data loss, it is important to follow the steps below when disconnecting or ‘unmounting’ the drive from your computer. 1. Before powering down and disconnecting the drive, unmount the system by simply dragging the G-DRIVE PRO TB icon to the trash located in the dock.
Maintenance for Your Drive Initialize Drive for Mac Maintenance for Your Drive 4. Choose the Format option that you prefer. • Mac OS Extended (Journaled): Use this format if you intend to use the drive for Time Machine or to create a separate bootable installation of OS. G-DRIVE PRO TB was factory-formatted for use or ‘initialized’ for Mac OS. You can reinitialize if you would like to quickly erase the contents of the drive. Here are the steps.
Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive Restore the Drive Icon WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE. 6. Click on the Erase button to continue. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will show the progress of the disk’s reformatting. If the G-DRIVE PRO TB drive icon was erased during the configuration process (see the previous section), you can restore the icon with the following easy steps.
Maintenance for Your Drive Maintenance for Your Drive Reformat with Partitions 4. Select the default G-DRIVE PRO TB drive icon on your desktop and press Command+I. This opens the Get Info window. (below left) ‘Partitioning’ a hard drive is the process of dividing a hard drive into separate, discrete sections called ‘volumes’. Each volume works like a separate disk. You can create up to 16 different partitions on a hard drive in Mac OS and each partition can be a different size and format. 5.
Maintenance for Your Drive 2. Select the FireWire or USB icon – not the G-Technology drive icon – by clicking it in the left-side column. Maintenance for Your Drive 5. Click on the first partition in the Volume Scheme area. Your partition will be highlighted by a blue bounding box. • In the Name field, type a name for the partition. 3. Click on the Partition button in the main window. • From the Format menu, choose your desired disk format.
Maintenance for Your Drive 8. Click on the Partition button to continue. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will show you the progress of the disk’s reformatting. 9. When partitioning is complete, the multiple partitions will be displayed in the left-hand panel of Disk Utility. 10. Quit the Disk Utility program. After reinitializing the drive, the custom icon for the G-Technology drive has been erased.
Support & Warranty Support & Warranty Technical Support Limited Warranty Thank you for purchasing G-DRIVE PRO TB. If you have any comments or questions about this manual or the product, please let us know! HGST, a Western Digital Company (“HGST”) Including G-Technology for External Hard Disk Drives G-Technology appreciates and values its customers, striving to give you the finest service and support.
Support & Warranty Support & Warranty What must you do? CAPACITY DEFINITION AND DISCLAIMER If you are having trouble with a product, before seeking limited warranty service, first follow the troubleshooting procedures that HGST or your reseller provides. For G-Technology products 1TB or greater: “One gigabyte (GB) is equal to one billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes).
