Product manual

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About Your G-DRIVE mini
G DRIVE
®
Overview of the Drive
This diagram shows the helpful features of your G-DRIVE mini. There is a Power & Activity
LED behind the grill on the front of the unit and a Heat Sink beneath it. The activity light
will glow when power is applied via the USB or FireWire ports. It will ash brighter as data
is transferred to or from the hard drive.
On the rear of the unit there are two FireWire 800 ports, a USB 3.0 port, an On/O Switch
and a DC Power In.
System Requirements
G-DRIVE mini supports the folllowing Operating Systems. The drive is set up at the
factory for use with Mac OS systems, and formatted as ‘HFS+ with Journaling’.
• Mac OS 10.6 or higher
• Windows® 8, 7, Vista and XP®