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Warranty Information

User Manual 

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LaCie  warrants  your  LaCie  2big  Enterprise  Class  against  any  de-
fect 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 warranty period, LaCie will, at its 
option, repair or replace the defective LaCie 2big Enterprise Class.

NOTE:

 For Enterprise Class products, the tower and the disk may 

have different warranty lengths.

In the event of a drive failure please contact your LaCie reseller or 
LaCie customer support for drive replacement procedure.

This warranty is void if:

 

The  LaCie  2big  was  operated/stored  in  abnormal  use  or 
maintenance conditions;

 

The LaCie 2big is repaired, modified or altered, unless such 
repair,  modification  or  alteration  is  expressly  authorized  in 
writing by LaCie;

 

The  LaCie  2big  was  subjected  to  abuse,  neglect,  lightning 
strike, electrical fault, improper packaging or accident;

 

The LaCie 2big was installed improperly;

 

The serial number of the LaCie 2big or an individual Drive Bay 
is defaced or missing;

 

The broken part is a replacement part such as a pickup tray, 
etc.

 

The tamper seal on the LaCie 2big or an individual Drive Bay 
casing is broken.

 

One  or  two  of  the  hard  disks  have  been  removed  and  re-
placed by any hard disk other than a drive provided by LaCie.  
For drive removal/replacement process, see section 

3.3. Re-

moving and Installing Drives

.

LaCie and its suppliers accept no liability for any loss of data during 
the use of this device, or for any of the problems caused as a result.

LaCie will not, under any circumstances, be liable for direct, special 
or consequential damages such as, but not limited to, damage or 
loss  of  property  or  equipment,  loss  of  profits  or  revenues,  cost  of 
replacement goods, or expense or inconvenience caused by service 
interruptions.

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.

Under  no  circumstances  will  any  person  be  entitled  to  any  sum 
greater than the purchase price paid for the drive.

To obtain warranty service, call LaCie Technical Support. You will 
be asked to provide your LaCie product’s serial number, and you 

may be asked to furnish proof of purchase to confirm that the drive 
is still under warranty.

All  systems  returned  to  LaCie  must  be  securely  packaged  in  their 
original box and shipped with postage prepaid.

NOTE:

 Accessories, such as interface cables, are not under war-

ranty.

IMPORTANT  INFO:

  Register  your  Enterprise  Class  product  at 

www.lacie.com

 within 30 days of its purchase date to take advan-

tage of LaCie Enterprise Class Service. For no additional cost, LaCie 
guarantees that your Enterprise Class product will receive the high-
est priority from our Technical Support team.  Please note that the 
term of your warranty remains five years.

6. Warranty Information

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Page 1: ...the Interface Cable 13 2 2 Turn On the 2big 14 3 RAID 15 3 1 About RAID Modes 15 3 1 1 RAID 0 15 3 1 2 Concatenation 16 3 1 3 Safe RAID 1 16 3 1 4 Mixed RAID 1 and RAID 0 17 3 2 Changing the RAID Mode...

Page 2: ...on This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio com munications Howeve...

Page 3: ...e is a risk of light ning or if it will be unused for an ex tended period of time Otherwise there is an increased risk of electrical shock short circuiting or fire Use only the power supply shipped wi...

Page 4: ...ily configured using the LaCie Desktop Manager makes the 2big a secure vault for your data Register your Enterprise Class product at www lacie com within 30 days of its purchase date to take advantage...

Page 5: ...of Apple OS 10 4 x 10 5 x or 10 6 x eSATA FireWire 400 FireWire 800 and or USB 2 0 Minimum of 600MB recommended Windows XP will not recognize logical volumes with capacity great er than 2TB For detail...

Page 6: ...ox Content Your LaCie 2big package contains the system tower and an acces sories box containing the items listed below 1 LaCie 2big RAID system tower with two hot swappable Enter prise Class hard driv...

Page 7: ...Views of the Drive Front View The blue button on the front of the LaCie 2big serves as a LED drive status indicator and the LaCie Shortcut Button See the LaCie Desktop Manager User Manual on the CD R...

Page 8: ...nnection 8 Drive lock 9 Drive tray handle 10 Drive status LED CAUTION To avoid overheating the LaCie 2big should be installed in a well ventilated area and in such a way as to maintain sufficient airf...

Page 9: ...ed when the drive is in the vertical posi tion If you have several LaCie drives stacked on each other please remember to attach the included rubber feet on the under side of your drives This will allo...

Page 10: ...high speed serial in put output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a com puter or to each other and FireWire 800 is the implementation of the new IEEE 1394b standard FireWire 800 offers i...

Page 11: ...urable eS ATA connectors do not have the L shaped design of other SATA connectors In addition the guide features are vertically offset and reduced in size to prevent the use of unshielded internal cab...

Page 12: ...ncryption configured If you want to set up encryption install the LaCie Desktop Manager and refer that application s user manual IMPORTANT INFO LaCie Enterprise Class encryption offers a very high lev...

Page 13: ...ble USB FireWire or eSATA into the corresponding port on your host computer 2 Connect the other end of the cable to the matching port on the 2big TECHNICAL NOTE If two interfaces are connected at the...

Page 14: ...use a power supply from another LaCie device or another manufacturer Using any other power cable or power supply may cause damage to the device and void your warranty Always remove the AC adapter befo...

Page 15: ...he data of all disks becomes inaccessible because parts of the data have been written to all disks RAID Mode Capacity Protection Speed Fast RAID 0 100 Big Concatenation 100 Safe RAID 1 50 Mixed RAID 0...

Page 16: ...nd data that is partially written on the failed disk and an operative disk is lost Offers the maximum possible capacity by combining the capacities of several drives into one large volume 3 1 3 Safe R...

Page 17: ...capacity cannot exceed 50 of the lowest capacity single disk IMPORTANT INFO If one physical disk fails the data of the SAFE volume is available on the second disk Only 25 of full capacity is protected...

Page 18: ...is ready to be reformatted see section 3 4 Formatting and Partitioning IMPORTANT INFO You must partition the disk drives after changing the storage policy configuration See section 3 4 Format ting and...

Page 19: ...is in Safe or Mixed mode you can leave it turned on and continue to step 2 2 Carefully insert the drive tray into an empty drive bay When the drive tray is most of the way in and you feel resistance p...

Page 20: ...s 7 When FAT 32 is used with Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Vista though volume size is limited to 32GB by the Windows partition utility i e Disk Manager and the individual file size is limited t...

Page 21: ...m by using hard disk space more efficiently With HFS you are no longer limited by block size MS DOS File System FAT 32 This is the Microsoft file system more typically known as FAT 32 This is the file...

Page 22: ...indows Vista 32 and 64 bit versions and Win dows 7 32 and 64 bit versions These operating systems will recog nize volumes greater than 2TB in size but the disks must be converted to the GPT file syste...

Page 23: ...t Quick Format Click Next Fig 16 14 Click Finish to begin the formatting process 15 Windows Disk Management will format and partition the disk according to your settings Fig 17 and your drive will app...

Page 24: ...st 16 partitions You can adjust the size of each partition using the slide bar between the partitions in the Volume Scheme area 7 In the Volume Information section enter a name for each volume partiti...

Page 25: ...c question You can also visit the drivers pages where the most recent software updates will be available If you need further assistance please contact your LaCie reseller or LaCie Technical Support se...

Page 26: ...tional disks Safe One drive has failed or was improperly inserted RAID is functional but the security of the drives has been compromised Mixed Solid red Solid red failed disks and solid blue functiona...

Page 27: ...ty with the 2big Quadra See section 1 1 Minimum System Requirements for more information Make sure the power supply is properly connected see section 2 2 Turn On the 2big that the drive has been turne...

Page 28: ...ter and that you have the following information on hand 5 Contacting Customer Support Information Where to Find Information 1 LaCie hard drive serial number Located on a sticker at the back of drive o...

Page 29: ...www lacie com fr contact LaCie Germany Contact us at http www lacie com de contact LaCie Italy Contact us at http www lacie com it contact Japan ELECOM CO LTD Contact us at http www lacie com jp LaCi...

Page 30: ...emoval replacement process see section 3 3 Re moving and Installing Drives LaCie and its suppliers accept no liability for any loss of data during the use of this device or for any of the problems cau...

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