LaCie Two Big with PCI-E Card 500GB + Spare 250GB Drive User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents

  1
• Foreword

  3
• Precautions

  5
• 1. Introduction

  7
  • 1.1. What Your LaCie Two Big Can Do

    7
• 2. Your LaCie Two Big

  8
  • 2.1. Minimum System Requirements

    8
  • 2.2. Package Contents

    9
  • 2.3. Views Of The Drive

    10
    • 2.3.1. Front View

      10
    • 2.3.2. Front View without Front Panel

      10
    • 2.3.3. Rear View

      11
  • 2.4. Cables & Connectors

    12
    • 2.4.1. Serial ATA II and eSATA

      12
• 3. Setting Up Your LaCie Two Big

  13
  • 3.1. Set up the LaCie Two Big

    14
  • 3.2. Storage Policies

    15
  • 3.3. Changing the Storage Policy Configuration

    16
  • 3.4. Partitioning the LaCie Two Big Disk Drives

    18
    • 3.4.1. Partitioning the LaCie Two Big Disk Drives — Windows

      18
    • 3.4.2. Partitioning the LaCie Two Big Disk Drives — Mac

      23
• 4. Maintaining Your LaCie Two Big

  25
  • 4.1. Removing/replacing a drive

    25
  • 4.2. Firmware updates

    26
• 5. LaCie Two Big Front Panel LED Indicators

  27
• 6. Tech Tips

  28
  • 6.1. Available Storage Capacity

    28
  • 6.2. File System Formats

    29
    • 6.2.1. File System Formats — Mac Users

      29
    • 6.2.2. File System Formats — Windows Users

      30
  • 6.3. Serial ATA II Questions and Answers

    31
• 7. Understanding RAID and Two Big Storage Policies

  33
  • 7.1. RAID 0 (Fast)

    33
  • 7.2. RAID 1 (Safe)

    35
  • 7.3. Concatenation (Big)

    36
  • 7.4. JBOD

    37
• 8. Troubleshooting

  38
  • 8.1. LEDs and Fan

    39
  • 8.2. LaCie Two Big connection to LaCie SATA II 3Gb/s PCI-X Card 4E

    40
• 9. Contacting Customer Support

  41
• 10. Warranty

  43