User manual LACIE BIG DISK EXTREME TRIPLE

[. . . ] LaCie d2 Big Disk Extreme+ Hard Drive USB 2. 0 · FireWire 400 · FireWire 800 user manual manuel utilisateur guída utente handbuch manual de instrucciones gebruikershandleiding LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Table of Contents page Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Warranty Information Glossary 3 3 5 6 7 7 8 9 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 28 29 32 33 35 37 37 39 42 43 44 45 LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Forward page Copyrights Copyright © 2007 LaCie. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of LaCie. Trademarks Apple, Mac, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. [. . . ] In the first page of the New Partition Wizard, click Next. Disk management utility Disk management utility LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Helpful Information page 0 8. In this window, you have the option of selecting the Quick Format option. This allows a much faster format; however, this will disallow Disk Management to check the drive for errors (recommended). Your drive is ready for use and should now appear in your My Computer. IMporTanT InFo: Please refer to page 28, Helpful Information, for a more detailed comparison of the various file system formats. Disk management utility (drive ready for use) LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Helpful Information page Mac Users Mac OS 10. x will use the Apple Disk Utility application, which is native to the operating system. Connect the drive to the computer via one of its interfaces and turn on the drive by pressing the blue button. In the Applications menu, open the Utilities folder, and then double-click Disk Utility from the Utilities folder. In the left side of the window will be a list of the available hard disk drives. You should see a volume that represents your internal hard drive, and one labeled LaCie Hard Drive. From the Volume Scheme: button, choose the number of partitions you want to divide the drive into by clicking on the pull down menu starting with Current (Mac OS 10. x gives you the option of dividing the drive into at most 8 partitions). You can customize the size of the partitions by using the slide bar between the partitions in the Volume Scheme: area. In the Volume Information section, create a name for each partition, choose the volume format (Mac OS Extended, Mac OS Standard or UNIX File System) and the volume size. Once you have finalized the volume format, number of partitions, size and options, click OK. Mac OS 10. x will automatically setup the disk with the partitions and volume format you selected, and your new drive will be available for use. IMporTanT InFo: Following these steps will erase anything that is on the hard drive. Therefore, if you have information that you want to protect or continue to use, backup this information before performing these steps. Disk management utility (Mac) IMporTanT InFo: Please refer to page 28, Helpful Information, for a more detailed comparison of the various file system formats. IMporTanT InFo: Apple recommends that unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System (UFS), you should use the Mac OS Extended format since it provides a more familiar experience to Macintosh users. LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface Helpful Information page 4. 2. Interface Comparisons Deciding which interface to use, whether it be HiSpeed USB 2. 0, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 can be a complicated decision. Depending on the interfaces your computer has, your decision should be based on the following: Computer With only USB 1. 1 Ports If your computer is only equipped with a USB port, your decision is fairly simple: connect via the USB cable provided with your drive. Hi-Speed USB 2. 0 is backward compatible and can be used in USB 1. 1 ports. Computer With Hi-Speed USB 2. 0 and FireWire 400 Ports If your computer is equipped with a Hi-Speed USB 2. 0 port and a FireWire port, you will get noticeably better performance by using the FireWire connection. Compared to Hi-Speed USB 2. 0, FireWire has higher sustained data transfer rates, a feature especially important for audio and video editors. Also, Hi-Speed USB 2. 0 will not allow you to daisy-chain multiple hard drives to your computer. [. . . ] This process of dividing up the hard drive is called LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple Interface page Glossary partitioning. A partition is just one section of the hard drive that will contain either special data put there by Silverlining or other files and data. Peripheral ­ A generic term applied to printers, scanners, mice, keyboards, serial ports, graphics cords, disk drives and other computer subsystems. This type of peripheral often relies on its own control software, known as a peripheral driver. [. . . ]