User manual LACIE D2 QUADRA HARD DRIVE

[. . . ] LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive USB 2. 0 · FireWire 400 · FireWire 800 · eSATA user manual manuel utilisateur guída utente handbuch manual de instrucciones gebruikershandleiding LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive 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 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21 22 30 31 34 35 37 39 41 41 43 46 47 48 49 LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive 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 box to the right that says Unallocated, right click and select New Partition. . . In the first page of the New Partition Wizard, click Next. Disk management utility Disk management utility LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive Helpful Information page 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 30, Helpful Information, for a more detailed comparison of the various file system formats. Disk management utility (drive ready for use) LaCie d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive 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 30, 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 d2 Quadra Quadruple Interface Hard Drive Helpful Information page 4. 2. Interface Comparisons Deciding which interface to use, whether it be HiSpeed USB 2. 0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 or eSATA can be a complicated decision. Depending on the interComputer 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. [. . . ] Partition, -ing ­ After formatting, the hard drive is not yet ready to store files. It must be divided into sections that will contain special information required for a Mac or PC to operate and other sections that will contain the files. 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. [. . . ]