Monster Digital Overdrive Thunderbolt User Manual

FAQs

DISCONNECTING THE DRIVE Be sure to follow your computer’s recommended method for ejecting or unmounting the drive.

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FORMATTING - MAC USERS

The drive is preformatted HFS+ and ready to go. If you want to use the drive between Mac and PC we recommend formatting the drive exFAT.

FORMATTING - PC USERS

You will need to reformat the drive before saving any data. We recommend formatting NTFS for the best performance. If you want to use the drive between PC and Mac we recommend formatting the drive exFAT.

FORMATTING – ADVANCED USERS

Advanced formatting information, such as how to partition, can be found on our website. www.MonsterDigital.com/ThunderboltFAQs

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Simi Valley, CA 93094

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WINDOWS USERS - PLEASE READ

Driver must be installed before the device can function properly. Download at:

www.MonsterDigital.com/ThunderboltDriver

If you’re running Windows® on a Mac® you don’t need to download the driver.

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Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Thunde rbolt™ and the Th underbolt™ lo go are tradem arks of Intel Cor poration in th e U.S. and/ or other c ountrie s. Trademar ks and regis tered t radema rks are pro pert y of their re spective own ers.

CABLE LATCH OPERATION

STEP 1: Pull latch down to release connector.

STEP 2: Unwind Thunderbolt cable from

enclosure, and plug in the connector.

NOTE: When storing cable make sure to press it back into the channel.

OVER DR IVE

LED INDICATOR: The blue LED is on when the drive is active.

SPECIFICATIONS

INTERFACE: Thunderbolt 10Gb/s

DATA PROTOCOL: PCI Express

DAISY CHAIN: Up to six Thunderbolt Technology-

compatible products. OverDrive Thunderbolt must be the end point.

CABLE TECHNOLOGY: Captured 300mm Thunderbolt Cable (Active/Active)

INTERNAL HARD DISK: Enterprise grade SATA III (6Gb/s interface) Solid State Drives

COOLING: Passive, aluminum heat sink enclosure

DATA TRANSFER RATE: 500MBps/450MBps -

Tested ATTO ver 2.47, NTFS

TEMPERATURE RANGE: Operating 0℃to 70°c, storage -40 to 95°c℃

SIZE: 133mm x 85mm x 15mm

WEIGHT: 7.0oz, 200g

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Computer with available

Thunderbolt port, latest version of Windows

Windows 8 / Mac OS X 10.6 or higher

CERTIFICATIONS AND DECLARATIONS: CE, FCC, Thunderbolt, IC, Microsoft WHQL