User manual LACIE BIGGEST S2S WITH PCI-EXPRESS CARD

[. . . ] LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Table of Contents page Table of Contents Forward Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Introduction 1. 1. LaCie Biggest S2S Capabilities 2. YourBiggestS2S 2. 1. Serial ATA II and eSATA 3. SettingUpYourLaCieBiggestS2S 3. 1. Installing the PCI-X/PCI-Express Card and Drive 3. 4. [. . . ] Partition Configured Volume, for details. LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S2S page 4. 4. 1. 6. Configure Safe + Fast In the Safe + Fast storage policy, data is written to mirrored disks in a striped format to create a volume consisting of four disk drives. The Basic Configuration Mode designates the remaining hard disk drive as the Hot Spare. To open the Configuration Mode, select Configure Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window. Select the Safe+Fast radio button from the Configuration Mode frame. TeChNICAl NOTe: The volumes table below the Storage Policy frame lists the volume label, implemented storage policy and size. 3. Because the Basic Configuration Mode affects all hard disk drives, a configuration change may result in total data loss. Click Yes to complete the configuration. 4. Select Save to Config File from the File menu or click the button in the toolbar to save the configuration. Click OK to build the configuration and close Configuration Mode window. This configures the drives using the Safe + Fast storage policy. Within a minute, the Status window will reflect the implemented Safe + Fast storage policy configuration. Partition the configured volume to complete the implementation. Partition Configured Volume, for details. LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S2S page 4. 4. 2. Advanced Configuration Mode This section describes how to use the Advanced Configuration Mode to apply more than one storage policy to volumes on the LaCie Biggest S2S. The Basic Configuration Mode provides six predefined storage policies to quickly configure the LaCie Biggest S2S. Each predefined storage policy allocates the maximum system capacity to the selected storage policy. Using the Advanced Configuration Mode, you can configure up to ten volumes - each with different storage policies and capacities. This flexibility provides numerous combinations of performance, redundancy, and capacity to meet your business requirements. There are many of the possible combinations of storage policy and capacity allocations that you can create with the Advanced Configuration Mode. Experiment with other combinations to allocate the total system capacity to meet your needs. 4. 4. 2. 1. A Look at the Advanced Configuration Mode The Advanced Configuration Mode is an extension of Basic mode that allows you to create two volumes (virtual drives) on each physical hard disk drive. See the following page for a diagram identifying the Advanced Configuration Mode's Sections and toolbar buttons. LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S2S page 0 4. 4. 2. 2. [. . . ] Review Event Log Event logs are helpful for troubleshooting and locating a system malfunction. Select Eventlog within the Edit menu in the Status window. The Event Log screen displays a list of events in a tabular format. The Date column displays the date and time of the event, the Box SN and Drive SN columns display the respective serial numbers for the event and a Message column gives an event description. [. . . ]