G-RAID mini Product Guide 1. INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing G-RAID mini™ from G-Technology, Inc. (G-Tech)! G-RAID mini is an ultra-portable, bus powered FireWire storage solution specifically designed to support professional content creation applications. support Multi-stream video playback with real-time effects and audio while editing on a laptop in the field.
G-RAID mini Product Guide 5. G-RAID mini OVERVIEW Power and Activity LED FireWire 400 Port FireWire 800 Ports 6. INSTALLING G-RAID mini The G-RAID mini can be connected to your system via FireWire 400, FireWire 800 or USB. One of the coolest features of the G-RAID mini is that it can be operated without a power supply when connected via the FireWire 400 or 800 port.
G-RAID mini Product Guide 7.1 Mac OS X G-RAID mini is initialized at the factory as a single Mac OS X volume. Power on G-RAID mini, wait 10 seconds, then power on your Mac. G-RAID mini will mount on the desktop as shown below.
G-RAID mini Product Guide 5. Click on the <Partition> button. The dialog box shown below will appear. Click on the <Partition> button to continue. 6. When partitioning is complete, G-RAID mini will be displayed in the left-hand panel as shown below. 7.
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G-RAID mini Product Guide 4. Click on the <OK> button to continue. 5. The following window will appear. G-RAID mini (Disk 1) is now identified as Basic and Online. 6. Right-click on the Disk 1 “Unallocated” bar entry and select New Partition… from the pull-down menu as shown below.
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G-RAID mini Product Guide 8. The following window will appear. Click on the <Next> button to continue. 9. The window shown below will appear. Click on the <Next> button to continue. This will create one large volume using all of the available space on G-RAID mini. Note: Multiple partitions can be created on G-RAID mini.
G-RAID mini Product Guide 12. The following window will appear. Click on the <Finish> button to continue. 13. Windows will format the volume and then display the following window. Disk 1 is now identified as G-RAID mini (E:). Exit the Computer Management console G-RAID mini will now be displayed as an available hard disk drive under My Computer as shown below.
G-RAID mini Product Guide 4. Click “Erase” and your drive will be formatted to its full capacity as FAT32. With this format, you will be able to READ/WRITE on both windows (2000/XP) and MAC OS machines. (NOTE: You could format your drive on a Windows machine FAT32, however Windows limits FAT32 partitions to 32GB in size) WARNING:...
(310) 449-4599, info@g-technology.com. 11. LIMITED WARRANTY G-Technology Inc. (G-Tech) warrants your product against any For optimal defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the designated warranty period. become defective within the warranty period, G-Tech, will at its discretion, repair or replace the product.