User manual LACIE ETHERNET DISK

[. . . ] LaCie Ethernet Disk User's Manual How To Use This Manual How To Use This Manual In the toolbar: Previous Page / Next Page Go to Beginning / Go to End Printing: While optimized for onscreen viewing, the pages of this manual are formatted for printing on 8 paper, giving you the option to print the entire manual or just a specific page or section. 1/2" x 11" and A4 sized To Exit: From the Menu bar at the top of your screen, select: File > Quit. Icons Used In This Manual Italicized paragraphs feature an icon describing the type of information being given. Important Info: This icon refers to an important step that must be followed. Tech Note: This icon refers to tips to help maximize performance. Caution!This icon indicates a potential hazard, and gives tips on how to avoid them. LaCie Ethernet Disk User's Manual Foreword Health, Safety and General Use Precautions 1. Setting Up Your LaCie Ethernet Disk 3. 1. [. . . ] Ask your system administrator for more information). For default settings, leave it blank. LaCie Ethernet Disk User's Manual 3) Enter a description. 4) Press the Create the group button. 8. Advanced Management Of Users, Groups And Shares page 31 5) Your group is now created, and by default, it belongs to the Users group. Important Info: There are a few fixed groups on the LaCie Ethernet Disk, and they can not be deleted. They are: Administrators, Guests, Power Users and Users. 8. 2. 2. Editing A Group 1) From the list of local groups, click on the button next to the group name that you wish to edit. 3) Submit the changes. 8. 2. 3 Deleting A Group Edit the group, then, from the bottom of the page, click the Delete button. Important Info: There are a few fixed groups on the LaCie Ethernet Disk, and they can not be deleted. They are: Administrators, Guests, Power Users and Users. LaCie Ethernet Disk User's Manual 8. Advanced Management Of Users, Groups And Shares page 32 8. 3. Listing Local Shares A share is a folder on which designated groups and/or users can be granted access to create, modify, read, and delete files. From the Web Administration Page, click on the Shares tab to list the local shares on your LaCie Ethernet Disk. 8. 3. 1. Creating A Share From the Web Administration Page, click on the Shares tab. From the lower-right corner of the page, click on Add a share to create a share (please refer to 7. 4. 3. 3. Tech Note: When you have multiple drives in your LaCie Ethernet Disk, or when you connect a mass storage device to your LaCie Ethernet Disk, you will be able to choose the drive in which you want to create the share. The drives will be named as they typically are under Windows, i. e. D: (first data drive), E: (second data drive), etc. . Fig. 8. 3 8. 3. 2. Editing A Share From the list of local groups, click on the button next to the share name to edit that share. Creating Shares for more information. 8. 3. 3. Deleting A Share Edit the share, then, from the bottom of the page, click the Delete button. 8. 3. 4. Deleting A Broken Share When you create shares on a removable drive and disconnect that drive, you create what are called "broken shares. " These shares will still be in the share database, but will not be physically present. [. . . ] The information can be stored or accessed in any order, and all storage locations are equally accessible. Seek Time ­ The amount of time (in thousandths of a second, or milliseconds) that it takes a hard drive's read/write head to move to a specific location on the disk. Average seek, then, is the average of a large number of random samplings all over the disk. Seek time is CPU independent, meaning that seek time is the same for a disk drive, whether it is attached to a computer or not. [. . . ]