Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton table of contents user manual page 1 table of contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5 1.1. Minimum system requirements ...........................................
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton foreword user manual page 2 copyrights copyright © 2008 lacie. All rights re- served. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval sys- tem, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo- copying, recordin...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton foreword user manual page 3 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. Do not open a disk drive or at- ✦ tempt to disassem...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton foreword user manual page 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. To h...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 5 introduction 1. Congratulations on the purchase of your new lacie 2big quadra. This high-performance, extremely flexible raid (redun- dant array of independent/inexpensive disks) subsystem is ide- ally suited for integration ...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 6 1.1. Minimum system requirements windows users windows 2000*, windows xp*, or windows vista ✦ 500mhz pentium iii or higher (or equivalent proces- ✦ sor) 512mb ram or greater ✦ available usb 2.0, firewire 400, firewire 800 or ...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 7 box content 1.2. Your lacie 2big package contains the system tower and an ac- cessories box containing the items listed below. Lacie 2big quadra 1. Hi-speed usb 2.0 cable 2. Firewire 400 (6-to-6 pin) cable 3. Firewire 800 (9-...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 8 fig. 1.3-a views of the drive 1.3. Front view the blue button (a) on the front of the lacie 2big serves as an led drive status indicator and the lacie shortcut button. See the lacie shortcut button user manual on the shortcut...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 9 off auto on safe mixed big fast fig. 1.3-b rear view raid switch 1. Off/auto/on power switch 2. Esata 3gbits port 3. Usb 2.0 port 4. Firewire 800 ports 5. Firewire 400 port 6. Power input connection 7. Drive tray handle 8. Dr...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 10 cables and connectors 1.4. Usb 2.0 usb is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other. Hi-speed usb 2.0 is the latest implementation of this standard, and it provides the...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton introduction user manual page 11 esata your lacie 2big uses the latest in sata technology, allowing interface (or bus) transfer rates of up to 3 gbits/s. Sata technol- ogy was originally developed to serve as an internal interface, delivering improved perfo...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 12 this section covers the installation and configuration of your lacie 2big. Follow the steps below to power on and configure your 2big: setting up your lacie 2big 2. Step 1: 2.1. Connect the interface cable step 2: 2.2. Turn the dri...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 13 plug one end of the interface cable (usb, firewire or esa- 1. Ta) into the corresponding port on your host computer. Connect the other end of the cable to the matching port 2. On the 2big. Technical note: if two interfaces are conn...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 14 off auto on safe mixed big fast 2.2. Turn the drive 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 su...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 15 raid 3. 3.1. About raid modes this section will help you decide which raid mode is right for your application. Fast (raid 0) 3.1.1. The 2big quadra is pre-configured in raid 0, the fastest raid mode. Requiring at least 2 drives, rai...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 16 big (concatenation) 3.1.2. When disks are concatenated, their capacities are combined and data is written to the primary disk in the array until is it full, and then to successive disks. Concatenation provides no perfor- mance advan...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 17 safe (raid 1) 3.1.3. In safe mode (raid 1), the two physical disks are mirrored together so that one single logical volume mounts on the desktop. All data is saved simultaneously on each disk (the available capacity cannot exceed th...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 18 3.2. Changing the raid mode before you change the raid mode of the lacie 2big, familiar- ize yourself with the 2big’s raid modes. See section 3.1. About raid modes . Important info: changing the raid mode destroys data stored on the...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 19 in the event that an individual hard disk fails in the lacie 2big, please contact your lacie reseller or lacie customer support. Please replace a defective hard drive only with a new drive pro- vided by lacie. For drive removal and ...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 20 3.4. Formatting the 2big 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 2big’...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 21 windows xp and windows vista without resorting to help from third-party products. The lacie 2big quadra comes preformatted in hfs+ for op- timum performance with mac os x. Mac os x users: you may customize the drive by reformatting...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 22 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. T...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 23 on the first page of the “new partition wizard,” click 8. Next. See fig. 3.4.2-b (screens may differ slightly depending on the system). Click 14. Finish to begin the formatting process. Windows disk management will format and parti...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton setup user manual page 24 3.4.3. Formatting for mac users connect the drive to the computer and turn on the drive. 1. Select 2. Utilities from the go menu in the finder menu bar. In the utilities folder, double-click 3. Disk utility. The disk utility window...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 25 3.5. Partitioning the disks you must partition the drives after changing the 2big configu- ration mode (safe, fast, big, etc). During this process, you will format the drives. For more information about file system formats, see sect...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 26 right click the configured disk’s unallocated space and se- 3. Lect new partition. If the new partition option is not avail- able, select the disk and initialize it first (fig. 3.5.1-c). Click 4. Next to start the partition wizard (...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 27 specify the partition size. By default, the partition occupies 6. The entire volume. Click next (fig. 3.5.1-f). Assign a drive letter or mount path and click 7. Next (fig. 3.5.1-g). Name and format the partition and click 8. Next (f...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 28 fig. 3.5.1-i review the settings and click 9. Finish to create the logical partition (fig. 3.5.1-i)..
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton raid user manual page 29 mac users 3.5.2. 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. Caution: if the 2...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton troubleshooting user manual page 30 4. Troubleshooting in the event that your lacie 2big is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out where the problem is coming from. If you have gone through all of the points on the checkl...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton troubleshooting user manual page 31 led status indicators 4.1. Use the 2big’s front and rear leds and the chart below as a reference to determine the status of your 2big: if the front led is: and the rear led is: and the raid mode is: then: solid blue blink...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton troubleshooting user manual page 32 if the front led is: and the rear led is: and the raid mode is: then: dimming red (5s)* off all temperature critical; lacie recommends that following this event you leave the 2big in standby for at least an hour before re...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton troubleshooting user manual page 33 other troubleshooting topics 4.2. Problem solutions the 2big is not recognized by the computer. If there is no icon for the 2big on the desktop (mac users) or in my computer (windows us- ers): check the interface cable co...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton contacting customer support user manual page 34 before you contact technical support read the manuals and review section 1. 4. Troubleshooting . Try to isolate the problem. If possible, make the drive the only external device on the cpu, and make sure that ...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton contacting customer support user manual page 35 lacie technical support contacts 5.1. Lacie asia, singapore, and hong kong contact us at: http://www.Lacie.Com/asia/contact/ lacie australia contact us at: http://www.Lacie.Com/au/contact/ lacie belgium contac...
Lacie 2big quadra • design by neil poulton warranty information user manual page 36 lacie warrants your lacie 2big against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the w...
