GT 062 Quickstart
FireWire 800, 400, USB
RAID 1, RAID 0,
Spanning and JBOD
Your GT 062 came with the following parts: FireWire 800 cable (9-pin to 9-pin), FireWire 400 cable (6-pin to 6-pin), power
cable, feet and the Glyph Manager utility software install disk. All documentation and registration info are available at
www.glyphtech.com
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Features at a Glance
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Interfaces
: (2) FireWire 800 (9-pin “S800”)
(1)
FireWire 400 (6-pin “S400”)
(1)
USB 2.0 (device-side)
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Enclosure
: Steel construction, Internal power supply and quiet fan
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Warranty
: 3 Years, 1
st
Year Overnight Advance Replacement Policy
Compatibility
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Mac OS
FireWire 800 requires OS 10.3.0 or later
FireWire 400 requires OS 10.3.0 or later
USB 2.0 requires OS 10.3.0 or later
USB 1.1 requires OS 10.3.0 or later
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Windows
FireWire 800 requires Windows 2000/XP or later
FireWire 400 requires Windows 2000/XP or later
USB 2.0 requires Windows 2000/XP or later
USB 1.1 requires Windows 2000/XP or later
Glyph Manager and RAID Support
READ THIS FIRST!
Changing the drive mode with the Glyph Manager software utility will require you to re-format the GT
062, and result in erasing all of the current data on the drive. Make sure you backup all data before
doing so!
The GT 062 uses two internal hard disk drives, and includes the option to combine them as one single drive or two individual
drives. Through the use of the Glyph Manager software utility, it supports four drive modes: JBOD, Spanning, RAID 1
(mirroring) and RAID 0 (striping). For most users, the RAID 0 mode will be ideal for its higher performance, but the other
drive modes have their own advantages, depending upon the application.
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In
JBOD
mode (standard storage lingo for Just a Bunch of Disks), the two internal drives will show to the computer
as two independent drives. They will need to be formatted to be seen as volumes by the computer. Each drive will be
seen with half the capacity of the whole; for instance a 1TB GT 062 will be seen as two 500GB. This mode can be
thought of as simply having two separate disks inside the GT 062. If the drives were ever to be separated in the
future, they would still work independently from each other. This mode is useful when you would like to have data
on one drive and make a copy of it on the other. It is also more secure because the failure of one drive will not affect
the health of the other.
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In
Spanning
mode, the two drives are seen as one large drive and data is written sequentially across them. When the
first drive fills to the limit, data is then written to the second drive. This mode is useful for applications requiring