Fantom Drives G-Force Megadisk Quick Start Installation Manual

Manual is about: Fantom Drives MDU1000: Quick Start

Summary of G-Force Megadisk

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    06-27-2008 mdcsim rev e the material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this document to assure its accuracy, fantom drives and fantom drives assume no liability resulting from errors or omis...

  • Page 2: Contents

    Contents introduction ............................................................ 3 parts & accessories list .......................................... 4 system requirements ............................................. 5 precautions............................................................. 5 fa...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    18 3 introduction welcome, and thank you for purchasing gforce megadisk esata+usb high capacity hard disk from fantom drives. In photos and illustrations in this guide, the following alert symbols are used in this guide: this signifies impor- tant information for all users. This signifies impor- tan...

  • Page 4: Parts &

    4 17 parts & accessories list the package should contain the following items: • fantom drives g-force megadisk hard disk • usb cable • esata cable • disk stand • ac adapter and power cord • quick start installation guide if you are missing any items listed above, please fill out the customer support...

  • Page 5: System Requirements

    16 5 system requirements system requirements for mac • power macintosh • mac os x 10.2 or newer • an available esata port or • available usb 1.1 or 2.0 port system requirement for pc • pentium-based pc with 233 mhz or faster cpu • windows 2000sp4, xpsp2, 2003, or vista • an available esata port or •...

  • Page 6: Troubleshooting

    6 15 troubleshooting faqs for mac users: q: why is my drive asking me to format it? It was already formatted and it contains data. A1: run a disk repair utility on the drive. A2: perform permission repair on your system drive. Open the disk utility (located in /applications/utilities/disk utility. A...

  • Page 7: Connecting The Drive

    14 7 how to safely dismount and turn off the drive with the computer running mac users drag the icon for the external hard drive to the trash. The drive will dismount and you can then safely turn if off. You may then unplug the power cord and data cable if you want to disconnect the drive. Pc users ...

  • Page 8: Setting The Raid

    Setting the raid operation mode you can configure the fantom drives megadisk esata+usb to use any of the following storage policies to map the physical hard drives to virtual drives, or "volumes", that are visible to the host computer. The host operating system treats these volumes as if they were a...

  • Page 9: Formatting  Your Gforce

    12 9 formatting your gforce megadisk hard disk the g-force megadisk comes preformatted with the fat32 file system, which will mount on most modern operating systems. Fat32 has some limitations, and we recommend you reformat the volume to a file system format more compatible with your particular comp...

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    10 11 fast (raid 0) the fast storage policy, also called striping or raid 0, presents the best data speed by using both disks in parallel. Hard drive data segments are written to different disks simultaneously which increases performance, but at an increased fault sensitivity (two drive's worth of d...