OWC ThunderBlade V4 Manuel utilisateur

THUNDERBLADE V4

User Guide

Introduction ............................................................................ 1

1.1 Minimum System Requirements

1.2 Package Contents

1.3 Getting Started

1.4 About This Manual

1.5 Front View

1.6 Rear View

Mac & PC Setup..................................................................... 3

2.1 Mac Formatting & SoftRAID Information

2.2 PC Formatting Process

Support Resources............................................................... 10

3.1 Troubleshooting

3.2 About Data Backup

3.3 Contacting Technical Support

CONTENTS

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Table of Contents

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Introduction

1.1 Minimum System Requirements

• Mac: host with Thunderbolt™3 port running macOS 10.13 or later

• PC: host with Thunderbolt 3 port running Windows 10 or later

1.2 Package Contents

• OWC ThunderBlade V4

• 0.5m Thunderbolt 3 cable

• Power supply and cable

1.3 Getting Started

• To use the ThunderBlade V4, connect it to your computer via the included

Thunderbolt 3 cable. Device drivers are not required, however use of

SoftRAID XT (macOS only at the time of this writing) requires the SoftRAID

driver and application.

• The LED indicator on the front of the device (see Section 1.5) will glow blue

when the device is receiving power and is connected to an active host.

The LED will glow white when the device is connected to a host that is in

Sleep or hibernation mode, or when it has power but is not connected to a

host. This LED is also connected to a light sensor on the back of the device;

this enables the LED brightness to adjust automatically based on ambient

lighting conditions.

• The LED has four segments, one for each installed M.2 SSD. When

one or more of the SSDs are accessed for read/write operations, the

corresponding segments will blink blue.

• While it is possible to connect a DisplayPort 1.2 display to the spare

Thunderbolt 3 port on the device by using the appropriate cable or adapter,

HDMI and other types of displays require an active display adapter with a

USB-C host connection.

1.4 About This Manual

The images and descriptions may vary slightly between this manual and the unit

shipped. Functions and features may change depending on the rmware version.

Screenshot images may vary slightly from the installed operating system. The latest

product details and warranty information can be found on the product web page.

OWC’s Limited Warranty is not transferable and subject to limitations.

INTRODUCTION

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Introduction

1.5 Front View

1. LED array (power and disk activity)

1.6 Rear View

2. Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports

3. Power input

4. Ambient light sensor (do not cover)

2 3 4

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

2.1 Mac Formatting & SoftRAID Information

The pre-installed SSDs have been formatted as a Journaled HFS+ volume for

Mac, and congured as a RAID 0 using SoftRAID XT. While you can use the

drive without SoftRAID XT installed on your Mac, we recommend you download

the application at softraid.com/srxt and install the latest version to get the best

performance. The OWC ThunderBlade V4 ships with a license for SoftRAID XT; the

serial number is on the bottom of the device.

2.2 PC Formatting Process

Note: all data on the ThunderBlade V4 will be lost when following the steps below.

Back up all important data before proceeding.

1. Connect the ThunderBlade V4 to a Windows 10 host using the included

Thunderbolt 3 cable, then connect the included power supply.

2. When the ‘New Thunderbolt devices...’ dialog appears (shown below), click

OK. Note: if you are using Windows via Bootcamp, the dialog box noted in

this step may not appear. On some PC systems, a secondary dialog may

appear after the ‘New Thunderbolt devices’ dialog and before the dialog

shown in Step 3, asking if you want to allow ‘Thunderbolt Software’ to make

changes to the device. Click ‘Yes’ in that case.

3. The ‘Approve Thunderbolt Devices’ dialog will appear. Choose the ‘Always

Connect’ option from the menu (shown below) and then click OK.

MAC & PC SETUP

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

4.Type ‘Create’ in the search eld next to the Start menu. From the results, choose

‘Create and format hard disk partitions’ to open Disk Management.

First-time SSD Users

If you’ve never connected an SSD to your PC before, your Disk Management

window will look like the one below (note only 1 of the 4 SSDs are shown -

bottom panel). If you have connected SSDs before, skip ahead to the next page.

After a short time the ‘Import Foreign Disks’ dialog will appear. Click OK.

Next the ‘Foreign Disk Volumes’ dialog will appear. Click OK.

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

All four SSDs should appear as they do in the Disk Management window below.

5. Type ‘Command’ in the search eld next to the Start menu, then select the

Command Prompt result. In the Command Prompt, type (without the marks)

‘diskpart’ then press Enter. A new dialog box will appear; click ‘Yes’. Next, at

the DISKPART > prompt type ‘list disk’ — you should see a screen similar to

the one below. Note the numbering of the four identical capacity disks.

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

6. You now need to clean the disks (this will require you to step through the

same process four times). Start with the rst disk in the series; in this example

we’ll use Disk 2 (i.e. the series is disks 2-5). At the DISKPART > prompt type

‘select Disk 2’ and press Enter. You should see a message that the disk

has been selected (as shown below). Next, at the DISKPART > prompt type

‘clean’ and press Enter. You should see a message like the one below.

7. Once you’ve repeated the clean command for all four disks, go back to the

Disk Management window. Right-click on the rst of the four disks listed in

Disk Management and select ‘Initialize Disk’ from the context menu options.

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

8. From ‘Initialize Disk’ select all four disks and the ‘GPT’ option. Click OK.

9. The ‘New Striped Volume’ wizard will appear. Click the ‘Next’ button. From

the ‘Select Disks’ dialog, select all three of the disks in the ‘Available’ section...

.... then click the ‘Add’ button, then click ‘Next’.

OWC ThunderBlade V4 Mac & PC Setup

10. From the ‘Assign Drive Letter or Path’ dialog, leave the default setting intact.

A drive letter will automatically be chosen, then click the ‘Next’ button.

11. From the ‘Format Volume’ dialog, choose the “Format this volume with the

following settings” option, then make sure the following are selected: File

System: NTFS; Allocation unit size: Default (unless you have a specic reason

to use a dierent setting); Volume label: type a name here; and ‘Perform a

quick format’ should be checked as well. Do not enable compression.

Click the ‘Next’ button.

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