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LaCie Biggest FW800 User Manual

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page table of contents table of contents table of contents forward 3 health and safety precautions 4 general use precautions 4 1.Introductiontothelaciebiggestfw800 6 2.Yourlaciebiggestfw800 7 2.1. Minimum system requirements 7 2.2. Package content 8 2.3. Specification...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page table of contents table of contents 5.2.1. Initialization messages 33 5.2.2. Rebuild messages 34 5.2.3. Failure and error messages 35 5.2.4. Raid and disk status messages 36 5.2.5. Raid and disk information messages 37 6.Maintainingyourlaciebiggestfw800 39 6.1. R...

  • Page 3: Forward

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page copyrights copyright © 2006 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, pho- tocopying, recording or otherwise, with- out the prio...

  • Page 4: General Use Precautions

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page that it is recycled in a way that pro- tects health and the environment. For information about where you can drop off your equipment for recycling, please contact your city waste disposal service. Caution: modifications not authorized by the manufacturer may void...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page do not place heavy objects on top of the lacie biggest fw800 or use ex- cessive force on it. Never use excessive force on your lacie biggest fw800. If you detect a problem, consult the troubleshoot- ing section in this manual. Protect your lacie biggest fw800 fro...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 1. Introduction to the lacie biggest fw800 congratulations on the purchase of your new lacie biggest fw800. This high-performance, ex- tremely flexible raid (redundant array of indepen- dent/inexpensive disks) subsystem is ideally suited for integration with data...

  • Page 7: 2. Your Lacie Biggest Fw800

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 2. Your lacie biggest fw800 your biggest fw800 2.1. Minimum system requirements windows users ■ usb 2.0 pentium iii or higher compatible processor 128mb ram or greater windows 2000 2000, 2003 and xp ❖ ❖ ❖ firewire 400 (6-pin) pentium iii or higher compatible proc...

  • Page 8: 2.2. Package Content

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 2.2. Package content important info: please save your pack- aging. In the event that the drive should need to be repaired or serviced, it must be returned in its original packaging. In the event that an indi- vidual disk should need to be repaired or serviced, pl...

  • Page 9: 2.3. Specifications

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page table of contents 2.3. Specifications host interface ■ firewire 400, firewire 800 and usb 2.0 ❖ weight and dimensions ■ 25.3 lbs/11.5 kgw 152.8 x 206.4 x 268.5 mm ❖ ❖ operation temperature ■ 0 - 35°c ❖ operation humidity ■ 5 - 95%, non condensing ❖ storage humidi...

  • Page 10: 2.4. Views of The Drive

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 0 2.4. Views of the drive 2.4.1. Front view ■ diskactivityindicator– indicates when the disk is being accessed. For more information, please see section 5.1. Disk status and activity indicators . Diskstatusindicator– indicates the status of the disk. For more inf...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 1 ventilationfan– the ventilation fan keeps your drive cool during operation. Be sure not to block the fan when using your drive. 2 powerswitch– the power svwitch is the main on/off switch for the lacie biggest fw800. 3 powersupplyconnector– this is where you plu...

  • Page 12: 2.5. Cables and Connectors

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page your biggest fw800 firewire 400, also known as ieee 1394, is a high- speed serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other, and firewire 800 is the implementation of the new ieee 1394b standard. Firewire 800 offers ...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page usb is a serial input/output technology for connect- ing 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 necessary bandwidth and data transfer rates to support high speed devic...

  • Page 14: 2.6. Drive Tray Locks

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 2.6. Drive tray locks the biggest fw800’s drive trays can be locked into place with the provided keys to prevent accidental drive tray removal and damage. Lacie recommends that you keep your drive trays locked while the biggest fw800 is in use. To lock a drive tr...

  • Page 15: 3. Understanding Raid

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 3. Understanding raid your lacie biggest fw800 is shipped with a pre- configured raid level of 5, but it supports four dif- ferent raid levels: 0, 0 + 1, 5 and 5 + hot spare. This section will help you decide which raid level is right 3.1. Raid 0 stripeddiskarray...

  • Page 16: 3.2. Raid 0 + 1

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page understanding raid 3.2. Raid 0 + 1 highdatatransferperformance this level combines striping and mirroring, which provides full data redundancy and protects data in the event that multiple drives fail (provided that the data on one of each mirrored pair of drives ...

  • Page 17: 3.3. Raid 5

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page understanding raid 3.3. Raid 5 independentdatadiskswithdistributedparityblocks this is the most versatile raid level and offers high i/o transaction rates, which greatly helps applications that perform large numbers of concurrent requests. If one drive in a raid ...

  • Page 18: 3.4. Raid 5 + Hot Spare

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 3.4. Raid 5 + hot spare this level is the same as raid 5, but one disk is des- ignated as a “hot spare,” which means that in the event of a disk failure, the “hot spare” disk would automatically be activated to replace the failed disk. The storage capacity of a r...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 4. Setting up your lacie biggest fw800 this chapter covers the installation and configura- tion of your lacie biggest fw800. A relatively easy process, you will be guided through the five following steps: step 1 4.1. Setting the raid level – the lacie biggest fw8...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 0 setting up your biggest fw800 4.1. Setting the raid level the lacie biggest fw800 is pre-configured at raid level 5, but it may be re-configured. The raid level is set using the raid level switch selectors on the rear panel of the lacie biggest fw800. The raid ...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 this is the default setting of the lacie biggest fw800. Follow these steps to set the raid level at raid 5. Power off the lacie biggest fw800. Move switch 1 and 2 of the raid level switch se- lectors to the off position. 1. 2. 4.1.1....

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 power off the lacie biggest fw800. Move switch 1 and 2 of the raid level switch se- lectors to the on position. 1. 2. 4.1.3. Raid 0 ■ fig. 4.1.3. Power off the lacie biggest fw800. Move switch 1 of the raid level switch selectors to ...

  • Page 23: 4.2. Creating An Array

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 4.2. Creating an array to initialize the disks in your array: make sure the biggest fw800 is turned off and the power cable is not connected. Ensure that the raid level is correctly set and configured. Refer to section 4.1. Setting t...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page if you are resetting the raid level after having used the lacie biggest fw800 at another raid level, the lacie biggest fw800 will display a warning on the lcd, asking if you are certain that you want to initial- ize the new raid array. The initialization process ...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 4.3. Connecting to a host computer once the lacie biggest fw800 has finished the initialization of the array, you will be ready to connect the lacie biggest fw800 to a host computer. This sec- tion is divided into the two different i...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 follow the steps in sections 4.1. Setting the raid level and 4.2. Creating an array to establish a raid array. Connect the 9-pin end (a) of the firewire 800 cable into the firewire 800 port on the back of the lacie biggest fw800 (fig...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 follow the steps in sections 4.1. Setting the raid level and 4.2. Creating an array to establish a raid array. Connect the hi-speed usb 2.0 cable into the hi- speed usb 2.0 port on the back of the lacie big- gest fw800 (a). Connect t...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 to change the time and date on the lcd display, press and hold the enter/mute button ( ) for five seconds. Release the button to display the date and time settings screen. To adjust the time and date values, use the scroll button ( )...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 4.5. Formatting and partitioning your lacie hard drive before the lacie biggest fw800 array can be fully utilized, it needs to be formatted. During this process, the array can also be customized with partitions. Formatting a disk consists of the following: the op...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 0 setting up your biggest fw800 8. Click next . 9. Click next . 10. Click next . 11. Click next . 12. In this window (fig. 4.5.1.C), you have the option of selecting the quick format option. This allows a much faster format; however, this will disallow disk manag...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page setting up your biggest fw800 4.5.2. Mac users ■ 1. If it is not already on, power on the host computer. 2. As soon as the array is detected by your computer, it will mount to the desktop as an untitled device. 3. From finder , use the go menu and open the utilit...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 5. Using the lacie biggest fw800 5.1. Disk status and activity indicators this list is a key to the messages of the disk status indicator and disk activity indicator on each of the in- dividual drive bays. Disk status indicator disk ...

  • Page 33: 5.2. Lcd Display Messages

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 5.2. Lcd display messages the status of the lacie biggest fw800 controller and array can be viewed through the lcd display. By using the menu button to scroll through the messages, the following information is available: raid level a...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 5.2.2. Rebuild messages ■ these lcd display messages may appear during a rebuild phase. Lcd display message message cleared when... Dx rebuild xx.X total: xxxxgb rebuilding data to a new disk following a disk failure. Rebuild complet...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 5.2.3. Failure and error messages ■ these messages will be displayed in the event of a raid or disk failure, or an error during a process. Raid failure messages lcd display message message cleared when... Raid fail code: 0 the raid a...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 raid configuration failure message lcd display message message cleared when... Raid level unmatched the setting of the raid level switch selectors does not match the existing raid level. The lacie biggest fw800 is shut down and the r...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 disk initialization lcd display message message cleared when... Biggest fw800 initialize disks the disks are spinning up. The lacie biggest fw800 has com- pleted disk initialization ❖ ready lcd display message message cleared when......

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page using the lacie biggest fw800 firmware version lcd display message message cleared when... Firmware ver: x.Xx displays the firmware version. The menu button is pressed ❖ fan and temperature information lcd display message message cleared when... Fan: xxxx rpm tem...

  • Page 39: 6.2. Firmware Updates

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page maintaining your lacie biggest fw800 6. Maintaining your lacie biggest fw800 6.1. Removing/replacing a drive in the event that an individual hard disk fails in the lacie biggest fw800, please contact your lacie re- seller or lacie customer support. Additional, sp...

  • Page 40: 7. Technical Information

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 0 technical information 7. Technical information 7.1. File system formats mac users ■ mac os 10.X users you may customize the drive by reformatting and/or partitioning the drive with separate file system formats. For optimal performance in mac os environments, fo...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page technical information windows users ■ use ntfs if... Use hfs+ if... ...You will be using the drive only under windows 2000 or win- dows xp (performance will generally be greater when compared to fat 32). This file system is compatible in read only mode with mac o...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page technical information 7.2. Available storage capacity a gigabyte (gb) means 1,000,000,000 bytes. In or- der to utilize a hard disk drive, it has to be formatted first. Formatting a disk consists of the following: the operating system erases all of the bookkeeping...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page technical information 7.3.1. Firewire 800 ports and performance ■ to utilize the newly enhanced firewire 800 per- formances, your computer must be equipped with a firewire 800 host bus adapter card (either sold sepa- rately, or integrated by your computer’s manuf...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page technical information 7.3.2. Hi-speed usb 2.0 ports and performance ■ to utilize the enhanced hi-speed usb 2.0 per- formance, your computer must be equipped with a hi- speed usb 2.0 host bus adapter card (either sold sepa- rately, or integrated by your computer’s...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page firewire questions & answers 8. Firewire questions & answers what does ieee 1394 mean? Ieee (the institute of electrical and electronics engineers) refers to the engineering corps that devel- oped the 1394th standard, defining the high-perfor- mance serial input/...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page firewire questions & answers both the computer and consumer electronics industries. Whether connecting game consoles, personal video recorders, home stereo equipment, digital tvs, hard drives, cd/dvd-rw drives, printers, scanners, tape drives or other digital har...

  • Page 47: 9. Usb Questions & Answers

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page usb questions & answers 9. Usb questions & answers what are the benefits of the usb interfaces? Cross-platform: use your usb peripherals on both mac and windows platforms. “hot swappable”: no need to shut down or restart your computer when adding or removing a us...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page firewire questions & answers port. If you buy a hub, make sure that it supports per-port switching. This function prevents the entire chain of pe- ripherals from freezing up if one of them is not working properly or is down. Will hi-speed usb 2.0 devices work on ...

  • Page 49: 10. Troubleshooting

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page troubleshooting in the event that your lacie hard drive is not work- ing 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 checklist and your drive is still not worki...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 0 troubleshooting problem possible solutions the lacie biggest fw800 is not recognized by the host computer. Ensure that the interface cable (either firewire 800 or hi-speed usb 2.0) is securely attached to both the lacie biggest fw800 and the host computer. Chec...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page contacting customer support 11. Contacting customer support read the user manual and review the troubleshoot- ing section. Try to isolate the problem. If possible, make the drive the only external device on the cpu, and make sure that all of the cables are correc...

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    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page 11.1. Lacie technical support contacts 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 contact us at: http://www.Lacie.Com/be/contact/ (français) ...

  • Page 53: 12. Warranty Information

    Lacie biggest fw800 user manual page warranty information 12. Warranty information lacie warrants your lacie biggest fw800 and drive bays against any defect in material and work- manship, under normal use, for the period designated on your warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to ...