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Datasheet - Page 5
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... Install Guide • LaCie Utilities and User Manual:
- Features
• eSATA 3Gb/s, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 • RAID 0, 10, 3, 3+Spare, 5, 5+Spare, Concatenation • Fast burst transfer rates: up to 260MB/s (eSATA) • Sturdy aluminum design • LaCie Shortcut Button • Triple Power Management: Auto/On/Off • Easy to set up: plug and play, driver-free...
User Manual - Page 1
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... Disks...26 3.5.1. Windows Users...26 3.5.2. Installing New Firmware ...34
5.Contacting Customer Support 35 5.1. Cables and Connectors...10
2.Setting Up Your LaCie 4big 12 2.1. Concatenation...16 3.1.4. Removing and Installing Drives...20 3.4. Formatting for Windows Users 23 3.4.3. Mac Users ...30
4.Troubleshooting...31 4.1. Other Troubleshooting Topics...34 4.3. Minimum System Requirements...
User Manual - Page 3
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...an extended period of time. The disk
drives shipped with a new drive provided by a qualified LaCie Technical Support representative.
✦✦ Never expose your LaCie 4big contain no user-serviceable parts. Such products will adversely affect the operation of the other chemical products to 95° F); Removing and Installing Drives. Dust can affect the operation and...
User Manual - Page 7
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... CD-ROM 8. Quick Install Guide 9. 2-in its original packaging. External power supply 7. www.lacie.com 712490
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4big Quadra
eSATA 3Gbits | FireWire 800 | FireWire 400 | Hi-Speed USB 2.0
Quick Install Guide LaCie 4big RAID system tower with four hot-swappable
hard drives 2. FireWire 400 cable 4. In the event that the drive should need to be repaired or serviced, it must be returned...
User Manual - Page 8
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See troubleshooting section 4.1. Introduction page 8
Fig. 1.3 LED Status Indicators for more information.
See the LaCie Shortcut Button User Manual on the front of the LaCie 4big serves as a LED drive status indicator and the LaCie Shortcut Button.
Views of the Drive
Front View
The blue button on the Shortcut Button CD-ROM for more information. LaCie 4big Quadra •...
User Manual - Page 10
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... Cables
Your LaCie hard disk is active. ✦✦ Isochronous data delivery: no dropped frames -
Introduction page 10
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Benefits ✦✦ Backwards compatibility: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 works
with the original USB specifications. ✦✦ Hot-swappable: no need to 63 devices can be connected on a
single bus.
FireWire supports real-time...
User Manual - Page 11
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... helps guide and align the connector during insertion. ✦✦ Hot-plug support - An extrusion on the outside the PC.
Soon after, eSATA, or external SATA was developed, allowing for the use of unshielded internal cables in SATA technology, allowing interface (or bus) transfer rates of shielded cables outside of other SATA connectors.
Included eSATA Cable
Your LaCie drive...
User Manual - Page 12
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... File System Formats. Connect the Interface Cable Step 2: 2.2. Format the drives to power on and configure your storage
needs. Setting Up Your LaCie 4big
This section covers the installation and configuration of your LaCie 4big.
For more information about file system formats, see section 3.4.1. Setup page 12 LaCie 4big Quadra • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual
2. Formatting -
User Manual - Page 14
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...not use the AC adapter supplied with your specific LaCie device.
TECHNICAL NOTE: You may use your LaCie drive when in damage to the drive resulting from the use this feature, you ...LaCie drive; LaCie accepts no responsibility for any other cable (B) connects to the device and void your warranty.
CAUTION: Only use a power supply from the one authorized by Neil Poulton User Manual...
User Manual - Page 20
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...a new drive provided by inserting your LaCie reseller or LaCie Customer Support.
IMPORTANT INFO: A replaced drive should not have a smaller capacity than the drive it ....drive tray by LaCie. Turn the locks until you feel the drive snap into an empty drive bay. RAID page 20
IMPORTANT INFO: Drive warranty will be hot.
Removing and Installing Drives
In the event that an individual hard...
User Manual - Page 29
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LaCie 4big Quadra • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual
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RAID page 29
Fig. 3.5.1-I ). Review the settings and click Finish to create the logical partition (Fig. 3.5.1-I
User Manual - Page 31
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... all of your drive is not working correctly, please see section 5. www.lacie.
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Troubleshooting page 31
Manual Updates
LaCie is constantly striving to your manual does not reflect the configurations of your LaCie reseller or LaCie Technical Support (see the FAQs that are regularly published on our Web site - com. You can also visit the drivers pages, where the...
User Manual - Page 35
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...hard drive serial number 3. Select More Info... Computer memory 7. If you are correctly and firmly attached. The brands and models of other internal and external
peripherals installed on your internal and external peripherals. Contacting Customer Support
Before You Contact Technical Support
1. LaCie 4big Quadra • Design by Neil Poulton User Manual
Contacting Customer Support...
User Manual - Page 37
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... normal use of this data.
For drive removal/replacement process, see section 3.3.
Removing and Installing Drives. You will LaCie be securely packaged in writing by service interruptions. placed by any sum greater than a drive provided by Neil Poulton User Manual
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LaCie 4big Quadra • Design by LaCie. LaCie and its option, repair or replace the defective LaCie 4big.
Quick Install Guide - Page 5
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... Quadra comes with four 3.5" SATA II hard disks installed. The disks are formatted in RAID 0. Please see Changing the RAID Mode on formatting hard disks.
4. Install LaCie Shortcut Button software from the Shortcut Button CD-ROM to change the RAID mode, see the detailed User Manual on the LaCie Storage Utilities CD-ROM for information on the next...
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