LaCie 4big Quadra
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esign
by
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eil
P
oulton
RAID
User Manual
page 22
Windows XP and Windows Vista without resorting to help from
third-party products.
The
LaCie 4big Quadra
comes preformatted in HFS+ for op-
timum performance with Mac OS X.
Mac OS X Users:
You may customize the drive by reformatting and/or partitioning
the drive with separate file system formats. For optimal perfor-
mance in Mac OS environments, format and partition the drive
as one large Mac OS Extended volume.
Mac OS Extended (HFS+)
Mac OS Extended refers to the file system used by Mac OS X.
HFS+ represents an optimization of the older HFS file system 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 system to use if you are going to be using
your LaCie Hard Drive between Macs and Windows operating
systems.
