LaCie Rugged Hard Disk
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Foreword
User Manual
page 3
Health and Safety
Precautions
✦
Only qualified persons are autho-
rized to carry out maintenance on
this device.
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Read this User Manual carefully and
follow the correct procedure when
setting up the device.
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Do not open a disk drive or attempt
to disassemble or modify it. Never in-
sert any metallic object into the drive
to avoid any risk of electrical shock,
fire, short-circuiting or dangerous
emissions. The disk drive shipped
with your LaCie Rugged Hard Drive
contains no user-serviceable parts.
If it appears to be malfunction-
ing, have it inspected by a qualified
LaCie Technical Support representa-
tive.
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Never expose your device to rain, or
use it near water, or in damp or wet
conditions. Never place objects con-
taining liquids on the LaCie Rugged
Hard Drive, as they may spill into its
openings. Doing so increases the risk
of electrical shock, short-circuiting,
fire or personal injury.
✦
Make sure that the computer and
LaCie Rugged Hard Drive are elec-
trically grounded. If the devices are
not grounded, there is an increased
risk of electrical shock. Power re-
quirements 100-240 V~, 4A, 60-50
Hz, (Supply voltage fluctuations not
exceeding ± 10% of the nominal,
transient over-voltages according to
over-voltage category II).
General Use Precautions
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Do not expose the LaCie Rugged
Hard Drive to temperatures outside
the range of 5° C to 35 C (41° F to
86° F); or to operational humidity
beyond 5-80%, non-condensing,
or non-operating humidity beyond
10-90%, non-condensing. Doing
so may damage the LaCie Rugged
Hard Drive or disfigure its casing.
Avoid placing your LaCie Rugged
Hard Drive near a source of heat
or exposing it to sunlight (even
through a window). Inversely, plac-
ing your LaCie Rugged Hard Drive
in an environment that is too cold
or humid may damage the unit.
✦
Always unplug the LaCie Rugged
Hard Drive from the electrical outlet
if there is a risk of lightning or if it
will be unused for an extended pe-
riod of time. Otherwise, there is an
increased risk of electrical shock,
short-circuiting or fire.
✦
Use only the power supply shipped
with the device.
✦
Do not place objects on top of the
LaCie Rugged Hard Drive or use ex-
cessive force on it.
✦
Never use excessive force on your La-
Cie Rugged Hard Drive. If you detect
a problem, see the Troubleshooting
section in this manual.
CAUTION:
A shielded-type power cord
is required in order to meet FCC emission
limits and also to prevent interference to the
nearby radio and television reception. It is
essential that only the supplied power cord
be used.
IMPORTANT INFO:
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. To help prevent the loss of your
data, LaCie highly recommends that you
keep
TWO
copies of your data; one copy
on your external hard disk, for instance,
and a second copy either on your internal
hard disk, another external hard disk or
some other form of removable storage me-
dia. LaCie offers a complete line of CD and
DVD drives. If you would like more informa-
tion on backup, please refer to our website.
IMPORTANT INFO:
1GB =
1,000,000,000 bytes. 1TB =
1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Once format-
ted, the actual available storage capacity
varies depending on operating environ-
ment (typically 5-10% less).
