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About Your G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 10Overview of the Drive G-SPEED Studio XL ships from the factory preconfigured in RAID

Maintenance for Your Drive•Replace a Failed Disk Drive ... p. 101•Initialize Drive for Mac® ... p. 10

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 101Replace a Failed Disk DriveThe G-SPEED Studio RAID Controller continually monitors th

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1021. Launch the G-SPEED Studio Software Utility. 2. Select the Physical Drive.

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1035. The failed drive’s LED will begin to blink in the G-SPEED Studio XL enclosure, ma

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1042. Select G-SPEED Studio XL by clicking its drive icon in the left column. Informati

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1056. After the drive is reinitialized, you should automatically see the Time Machine d

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 106Restore the Drive IconIf your G-SPEED Studio XL drive icon was erased during the rein

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1074. Select the G-SPEED Studio XL icon on your desktop and press Command+I. This will

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 108Reformat with PartitionsHard drive partitioning is the process of dividing a hard dri

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1092. Select the appropriate icon — not the G-Technology drive icon — by clicking it i

Using Your Drive•Drive Activity LED ... p. 12•Warning LED and Alarms ... p. 13•Disconnect the

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1105. Click on the first partition in the Volume Scheme area. Your partition will be hig

Maintenance for Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 1118. Click on the Partition button to continue. A progress bar in the lower-right corn

Appendix•RAID Levels Explained ... p. 113

AppendixG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 113RAID Levels ExplainedDescriptionDisk strippingMirroringStripped Mirror:A RAID 1E array can be built fro

Support & Warranty•Technical Support ... p. 115•Limited Warranty ... p. 116•Co

Support & WarrantyG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 115Technical SupportThank you for purchasing G-SPEED Studio XL. If you have any comments or

Support & Warranty G SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 116Limited WarrantyLimited WarrantyHGST, a Western Digital Company (“HGST”) including G-Tec

Support & WarrantyG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 117insurance in shipping the drive to our logistics center. You should remove all personal i

Support & Warranty G SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 118Capacity Denition and Disclaimer For G-Technology products 1TB or greater: 1 gigabyte (

One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity will v

Using Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 12Drive Activity LEDUnder normal operation, each G-SPEED Studio XL drive module has an LED that gl

Using Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 13Warning LED and AlarmsThe G-SPEED Studio XL enclosure integrates an audible alarm or buzzer that

Using Your DriveG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 14Disconnect the DriveA great feature of Thunderbolt technology and G-SPEED Studio XL is the abili

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XL• G-Technology Assistant ... p. 17• Recommended Installation ...

• Choosing Automatic Configuration... p. 68• Choosing Express Configuration ... p. 69• C

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 17G-Technology AssistantTo enhance your experience with G-SPEED Studio XL we have deve

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 18G-SPEED Studio Software UtilityG-SPEED Studio XL ships preconfigured in RAID 5 and is

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 193. Double-click on the G-SPEED_Studio_Software_Utility.pkg* file to begin the instal

p. 2Table of ContentsG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™Safety & General UseSafety Precautions ...

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 204. The software license agreement will appear. Please read the statement and click

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 216. Click Install to begin the installation process.7. The G-SPEED Studio Software

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 22Power Modes on G-SPEED Studio XLG-SPEED Studio XL introduces new power-saving and co

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 23Daisy Chaining Multiple G-SPEED Studio XL UnitsUp to six G-SPEED Studio XL or Thunde

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 24Thunderbolt daisy chain connectionsHDMI

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 25Displaying Multiple G-SPEED Studio XL UnitsThe G-SPEED Studio Software Utility displ

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 26The G-SPEED Studio Software Utility requires a Thunderbolt connection between your c

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 27You can also choose to place an alias into the dock.ClosingThere are two ways to clo

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 28Unlocking the UIBy default, the user interface (UI) is locked to prevent unauthorize

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 29G-SPEED Studio Software Utility OverviewThe G-SPEED Studio Software Utility interfac

p. 3Table of ContentsG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™Running Media Patrol on Your Physical Drives ... 63Managing Dis

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 30Toolbar Icons• Dashboard – Displays the Dashboard and overview• Wizard – Displays

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 31Component ListClick the Dashboard icon. From the System Status list choose Controlle

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 32Highlight ArraysFrom the Disk Array menu, select the Locate button to identify the p

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 33Device: Front View display menu Click on the drive modules to view the status and id

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 34Viewing System InformationTo view enclosure information, click the System Informatio

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 35Clearing StatisticsTo clear statistical data on the RAID controller, physical drives

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 36Saving a Service ReportA service report can be useful to technical support for troub

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 372. Click on the padlock icon to unlock the menu, then type in the password for your

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 38Enclosure information includes:• Enclosure ID• Enclosure Warning Temperature Thres

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 39Locating an EnclosureIf you have multiple G-SPEED Studio XL units and you want to ve

Safety & General Use•Safety Precautions ... p. 5•Backup Your Data ...

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 40Controller information includes: Controller ID Vendor Operational Status Cache Usage

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 41Viewing Controller StatisticsTo view controller statistics:1. Click the Dashboard i

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 42Write Back Cache Flush Interval – Enter a value into the field from 1 to 12 seconds.

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 43Managing Background ActivitiesBackground activity management includes:• “Viewing C

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 44Viewing Scheduled Background ActivitiesTo view a list of scheduled background activi

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 45Choose an End On option:• No end date or perpetual• End after a specific number of

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 46Choose a Start Time from the drop-down menus.The menus have a 24-hour clock. Choose

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 47Enabling or Disabling a Scheduled Background ActivityBackground activity schedules a

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 48Media PatrolMedia Patrol is a routine maintenance procedure that checks the magnetic

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 49Changing Redundancy Check SettingsTo change Redundancy Check settings:1. Click on t

Safety & General UseG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 5Safety PrecautionsYour G-SPEED Studio XL’s warranty may be voided as a result of failing

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 50Changing Initialization SettingsTo change initialization settings:1. Click on the B

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 51Changing Rebuild Settings1. Click on the Background Activities icon.2. Click the S

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 52Changing Migration SettingsTo change migration settings: 1. Click on the Background

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 53Changing PDM SettingsTo change PDM settings: 1. Click on the Background Activities

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 54Changing Transition SettingsTo change Transition settings: 1. Click on the Backgrou

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 55Changing Synchronization SettingsTo change Synchronization settings:1. Click on the

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 56Viewing a List of Physical DrivesTo view a list of physical drives in your G-SPEED S

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 57• Drive Interface – SATA 1.5, 3 Gb/s or 6 Gb/s• Serial Number – Serial number of t

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 58Viewing Physical Drive StatisticsTo view physical drive statistics:1. Click the Phy

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 59Viewing Physical Drive SMART Log InformationTo view physical drive SMART Log informa

Safety & General UseG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 6Backup Your DataThe disk drive contained in your G-SPEED Studio XL is a delicate electron

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 60Running the Locate function to identify a physical drive:Drive power/status LEDs bli

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 61To change individual physical drive settings: 1. Click the Physical Drive icon.2.

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 62Clearing a Stale or PFA ConditionStale – The physical drive contains obsolete disk a

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 63Running Media Patrol on Your Physical DrivesMedia Patrol is a routine maintenance pr

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 64Managing Disk ArraysDisk array management includes:• “Viewing a List of Disk Arra

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 65Viewing Disk Array InformationTo view disk array information:1. Do one of the follo

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 66To create a disk array:1. From the Dashboard menu, click the Disk Array link.2. Cl

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 67Creating a Disk Array and Logical Drive With the WizardA disk array is a method of o

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 68Choosing Automatic CongurationTo use the Automatic Configuration Wizard:1. From the

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 69Choosing Express CongurationTo use the Express Configuration Wizard:1. From the Sto

About Your G-SPEED Studio XL•Introduction ... p. 8•What’s in the Box ...

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 705. From the Application Type drop-down menu, choose an application that best des

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 71Choosing Advanced CongurationThis option enables you to specify additional paramete

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 72 •Enteravalueforcapacityandchoosetheappropriatesizeunitofmeasurement

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 73Task 4 – Summary1. Review your choices of disk array, logical drives and spare drive

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 743. Make the following setting changes as required:  •Enterchange,ordeletethea

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 752. Mouse-over the disk array you want to identify, then click the Locate button. Th

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 76Preparing a Disk Array for TransportThis feature prepares the physical drives that m

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 77Performing a Manual Rebuild To perform a manual rebuild:1. Click on the Background

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 78Pausing and Resuming a RebuildTo pause or resume a Rebuild: 1. Click on the Backgrou

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 79Viewing a List of Logical DrivesTo view a list of logical drives, perform one of the

About Your G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 8IntroductionThank you for purchasing the G-Technology G-SPEED Studio XL, featuring 20

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 80 •Capacity – Data capacity of the logical drive  •Number of Axles – For RAID 10,

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 812. Mouse-over the logical drive you want, then click the View button. 3. Click the S

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 82Viewing Logical Drive Check TablesThis feature allows you to view error tables. Use

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 83 1. One of the following actions:  •Clickthe Logical Drive icon.  •FromtheSto

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 84Formatting Your Logical DrivesIf you left the Format box checked when you created yo

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 85Deleting a Logical DriveThis action requires administrator or superuser privileges.

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 86To initialize a logical drive: 1. Click on the Background Activities icon. The list

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 87Redundancy Check on a Logical DriveRedundancy Check is a routine maintenance procedu

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 88Migrating a Logical DriveMigration means one or both of the following:• Changing th

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 89Running PDM on a Logical DrivePredictive Data Migration (PDM) is the migration of da

About Your G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 9What’s in the Box The following items are included in the box:• G-SPEED Studio XL st

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 90Managing Spare DrivesSpare drive management includes:  •ViewingaListofSpareDr

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 91Spare Drive information will display, including: • Spare Drive ID – Spare0, Spare1,

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 923. For each of the following items, accept the default or change the settings as req

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 93Running Spare CheckSpare Check verifies the status of your spare drives. To run Spare

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 94Running a TransitionTo run a Transition on a revertible spare drive: 1. Click on the

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 95Formatting Logical DrivesA RAID logical drive must also be formatted to be compatibl

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 96When the G- SPEED Studio Software Utility finishes the format operation, new removabl

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 97• For Macintosh® computers, the default GPT Format partition and the default.• Jo

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 984. Change your Volume Scheme, Volume Information and Options settings, then click t

Conguring G-SPEED Studio XLG SPEEDSTUDIO XLwith Thunderbolt™p. 99RequirementsThe spare drive must have adequate capacity to replace the largest physi