User manual

3
I
ntro
d
uctio
n
Y
our Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0 portable hard drive
f
eatures high-
p
erformance stora
g
e usin
g
a USB 3.0 “Su
p
erS
p
eed” interface. USB 3.0
offers u
p
to 10 times faster data rates than USB 2.0, while maintainin
g
backwards compatibility to any USB 2.0 ports on your computer. Once your
drive is connected
p
ro
p
erl
y
to
y
our com
p
uter,
y
ou will be able to use it as
y
ou would an
y
hard drive for storin
g
y
our data and for
p
erformin
g
data
back-up
f
unctions.
C
onnectin
g
Portable
H
ard Driv
e
Insta
ll
ing your Porta
bl
e Har
d
Drive is extreme
l
y simp
l
e – just use t
h
e
included mini-USB 3.0 cable to connect your Portable Hard Drive to any
free USB
p
ort on
y
our com
p
uter. On Windows com
p
uters, a new icon will
appear in My Computer representing your Porta
bl
e Har
d
Drive. On Mac OS
systems, your Portable Hard Drive will appear on the desktop as a new disk.
If
y
ou are usin
g
a USB 1.1
p
ort on
y
our Windows com
p
uter, the followin
g
cautionar
y
note ma
y
a
pp
ear on
y
our
d
is
pl
a
y
:
H
i-S
p
ee
d
USB Device
p
lugged into non-Hi-Speed USB hub. This does not indicate a problem
because the drive is com
p
atible with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0
p
orts.
Sim
ply
c
l
ose t
h
e messa
g
e an
d
p
rocee
d
. However, in t
h
is case t
h
e
d
rive wi
ll
operate only at USB 1.1 speeds.
If
y
ou connect
y
our
p
ortable hard drive and it doesn’t a
pp
ear to
p
ower u
p
y
ou may require an a
dd
itiona
l
power source. T
h
is is avai
l
a
bl
e via an optiona
l
U
SB-Y cable
f
rom our Technical Support team. Details
f
or Technical Support
are inc
l
u
d
e
d
l
ater in t
h
e manua
l
.
N
ote: Capacity dependent on model. 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes
/
1
G
B = 1,000,000,000 b
y
tes
/
1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 b
y
tes.
Some capacity used
f
or pre-loaded so
f
tware,
f
ormatting and other
functions, and thus is not available for data stora
g
e. As a result, and
d
ue to di
ff
ering calculation methods, your operating systems may
r
e
p
ort as fewer me
g
ab
y
tes/
g
i
g
ab
y
tes/terab
y
tes.