Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 9000263 LaCie
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L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on T abl e o f Co nte nts Us er Man ual pag e 1 T able of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5 1.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on F orew ord Us er Man ual pag e 2 Copyrights Copyright © 2008 LaCie. All rights re- served. No part of this publication may be reproduced, st.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on F orew ord Us er Man ual pag e 3 Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions ✦ Only qualified persons are autho- rized to carry out maintenance on this device. ✦ Read this User Manual carefully and follow the correct procedure when setting up the device.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on F orew ord Us er Man ual pag e 4 IMPORTANT INFO: Any loss, corruption or destruction of data while using a LaCie drive is the sole responsibility of the user, and under no circumstances will LaCie be held liable for the recovery or restoration of this data.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 5 1. Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie 4big Quadra.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 6 1.1. Minimum System Requirements *Windows 2000 and Windows XP will not recognize logical vol- umes with capacity greater than 2TB. For details, see section 3.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 7 1.2. Box Content Your LaCie 4big package contains the system tower and an ac- cessories box containing the items listed below. 1. LaCie 4big RAID system tower with four hot-swappable hard drives 2.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 8 Fig. 1.3 1.3. Views of the Drive Front View The blue button on the front of the LaCie 4big serves as a LED drive status indicator and the LaCie Shortcut Button.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 9 off on auto Rear View 1. RAID selection switch 2. Power input connection 3. USB 2.0 port 4. FireWire 800 ports 5. FireWire 400 port 6. eSATA 3Gbits port 7.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 10 1.4. Cables and Connectors USB 2.0 USB is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other. Hi-Speed USB 2.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Int rod ucti on Us er Man ual pag e 11 eSA T A Your LaCie 4big Quadra uses the latest in SATA technology, al- lowing interface (or bus) transfer rates of up to 3 Gbits/s.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Set up Us er Man ual pag e 12 This section covers the installation and configuration of your LaCie 4big. Follow the steps below to power on and configure your LaCie 4big: Step 1: 2.1. Connect the Interface Cable Step 2: 2.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Set up Us er Man ual pag e 13 2.1. Connect the Interface Cable 1. Plug one end of the interface cable (USB, FireWire or eSA- TA) into the corresponding port on your host computer. 2. Connect the other end of the cable to the matching port on the 4big.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Set up Us er Man ual pag e 14 2.2. T urn the 4big On The power supply kit is composed of two cables: one cable ( A ) connects to the LaCie drive; and the other cable ( B ) connects to a power outlet, such as a wall outlet or a surge protector.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 15 3. RAID 3.1. About RAID Modes This section will help you decide which RAID mode is right for your application. 3.1.1. RAID 0 The 4big Quadra is pre-configured in RAID 0, the fastest RAID mode.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 16 3.1.2. RAID 10 RAID 10 (also called RAID 1+0) is another RAID level that com- bines the attributes of other levels, specifically RAID 1 and RAID 0. It is a “mirror of stripes”, meaning that data is striped across two mirrored arrays.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 17 A1 A4 B1 B4 C1 C4 A2 A5 B2 B5 C2 C5 A3 A6 B3 B6 C3 C6 Ap(1-3) Ap(4-6) Bp(1-3) Bp(4-6) Cp(1-3) Cp(4-6) RAID 3 Dis.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 18 3.1.5. RAID 5 and RAID 5+Spare RAID 5 combines the striping of RAID 0 with data redundancy in an array with a minimum of three disks. Data is striped across all disks and a parity block (P) for each data block is written on the same stripe.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 19 3.2. Changing the RAID Mode The 4big comes preconfigured in RAID 0 mode. Before you change the RAID mode of the LaCie 4big, familiarize your- self with the 4big’s RAID modes.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 20 In the event that an individual hard disk fails in the LaCie 4big, please contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer Support. Please replace a defective hard drive only with a new drive pro- vided by LaCie.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 21 3.4. Formatting The 4big Quadra comes pre-formatted in HFS+ (optimized for Mac OS X). Please read the following information on file system formats for Windows and Mac operating systems to determine if you need to reformat the 4big’s disks.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 22 Windows XP and Windows Vista without resorting to help from third-party products. The LaCie 4big Quadra comes preformatted in HFS+ for op- timum performance with Mac OS X.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 23 3.4.2. Formatting for Windows Users The process of formatting a drive on a computer running Win- dows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista consists of two steps: (1) installing a signature on the drive, and (2) formatting the drive.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 24 9. Click Next . 10. Click Next . 11. Click Next . 12. Click Next . 13. On the Format Partition window, select Quick Format . Click Next . 14. Click Finish to begin the formatting process.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 25 3.4.3. Formatting for Mac Users 1. Connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive. 2. Select Utilities from the Go menu in the Finder menu bar. 3. In the Utilities folder, double-click Disk Utility .
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 26 3.5. P artitioning the Disks You must partition the drives after changing the 4big configu- ration mode (SAFE, FAST, BIG, etc). During this process, you will format the drives.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 27 3. Right click the configured disk’s unallocated space and se- lect New Partition . If the New Partition option is not avail- able, select the disk and initialize it first (Fig.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 28 6. Specify the partition size. By default, the partition occupies the entire volume. Click Next (Fig. 3.5.1-F). 7. Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next (Fig.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 29 Fig. 3.5.1-I 9. Review the settings and click Finish to create the logical partition (Fig.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on RAI D Us er Man ual pag e 30 3.5.2. Mac Users CAUTION: Following these steps will erase everything from the hard disk. If you have information that you want to protect or continue to use, back up this information before performing these steps.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on T roubl esh ooti ng Us er Man ual pag e 31 4. T roubleshooting In the event that your LaCie 4big is not working correctly, please refer to the table on the following page to identify the status of your device.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on T roubl esh ooti ng Us er Man ual pag e 32 4.1. LED Status Indicators Use the 4big’s front and rear LEDs and the chart below as a reference.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on T roubl esh ooti ng Us er Man ual pag e 33 If the front LED is: And the rear LED is: And the RAID mode is: Then: Dimming red (5s)* Off All During standby mode, when one or more drives have failed or are improperly inserted; RAID is not functional.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on T roubl esh ooti ng Us er Man ual pag e 34 4.2. Other T roubleshooting T opics Problem Solutions The 4big is not recognized by the computer . If there is no icon for the 4big on the desktop (Mac users) or in My Computer (Windows us- ers): ✦ Check the interface cable connection.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Con tac ting Cu sto mer Sup port Us er Man ual pag e 35 5. Contacting Customer Support Before Y ou Contact T echnical Support 1. Read the manuals and review section 4. Troubleshooting . 2. Try to isolate the problem.
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on Con tac ting Cu sto mer Sup port Us er Man ual pag e 36 5.1. LaCie T echnical Support Contacts LaCie Asia Contact us at: http://www .lacie.com/asia/contact/ LaCie Australia Contact us at: http://www .
L aC ie 4bi g Q uad ra • D e sig n b y N e il P oul t on W ar rant y I nfor mat ion Us er Man ual pag e 37 LaCie warrants your LaCie 4big against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate.
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