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Summary of Contents for eXtreme Thunderbolt 3

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Page 2: ...essories List The package should contain the following items 1 eXtreme Thunderbolt 3 SSD 1 Thunderbolt 3 USB C USB C Cable 1 User Manual 2 We at Fantom Drives take great pride in bringing personal satisfaction to each of our customers If you ever have any trouble with this unit please contact us at support fantomdrives com or call us at 1 800 800 DISK M F 9AM 4PM PST ...

Page 3: ...tion We at Fantom Drives take great pride in bringing personal satisfaction to each of our customers If you ever have any trouble with this unit please contact us at support fantomdrives com or call us at 1 800 800 DISK M F 9AM 4PM PST Your Fantom Drives eXtreme SSD is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 Apple Macintosh computers running Apple Mac OS 10 4 or greater and PC with Thunderbolt 3 running Mic...

Page 4: ...o use eXtreme SSD Please note that the eXtreme SSD does not need a separate power supply STEP 1 SET UP For Windows Only For maximum performance enable the following settings in Windows 2 Go to Device Manager locate your Thunderbolt 3 external storage as PCIe SSD right click and open Properties 4 3 In Policies tab enable Better Performance and Enable write caching on the device ...

Page 5: ... not end with W and you want to use it for Windows format the drive by following steps 4 through 10 Warning This will delete all your current data in the drive 3 On your taskbar right click on the Windows icon and select Disk Management STEP 2A Instructions for Windows 10 or Greater 4 When Disk Management opens verify that your system sees the drive you have connected Disk 0 is usually the OS and ...

Page 6: ...ng what shows when connected If your drive does not say Unallocated follow steps 6 and 7 Otherwise go to step 9 6 Once PowerShell or Command Prompt has loaded A Type diskpart and press Enter on keyboard B Type select disk and press Enter on keyboard replace with the disk number from Disk Management C Type clean and press Enter on keyboard D You can exit PowerShell after it says DiskPart Succeeded ...

Page 7: ...7 7 Go back to Disk Management You should now see that drive as Unallocated as mentioned in step 5 8 Right click on your Disk and select Initialize Disk 9 Make sure your disk and GPT option is selected ...

Page 8: ... again on Disk Management and click on New Simple Volume 11 Continue through with the Wizard and where it asks for File System Type make sure it is set to NTFS Finish the Wizard and you are now able to use the drive with Windows ...

Page 9: ...or the name of your main hard drive in finder 3 Open Applications then Utilities and then Disk Utility 4 Once the Disk Utility application has opened your eXtreme SSD should be listed on the left Click on the eXtreme SSD Drive and click the Erase tab 9 STEP 2B Instructions for Mac OSX ...

Page 10: ... 6 Click Erase at the bottom of the screen You will receive a warning message asking you to confirm the erase procedure 7 The drive will be available to use after the process completes 10 Warning This will delete all your current data in the drive ...

Page 11: ...lect which icons appear on the taskbar 4 Scroll to Windows Explorer Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media and turn it on 5 If this doesn t work make sure the device has stopped all activity like copying or syncing files Select Start Settings Devices Select the device and click Remove device For Mac the eXtreme SSD drive will show up as an icon on the desktop Just drag it into the trash can Once t...

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