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1. LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 Using your LaCie Biggest S2S The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager manages and monitors the LaCie Biggest S25 Storage Appliance The Manager primarily consists of the following two windows Status window Configuration Mode Using Your Biggest S25 page 26 The Status window is the first to appear following the launch of the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager The Configuration Mode and all following screens can be accessed with a password For additional information on managing passwords see 4 2 Customize password 4 1 To run the LaCie Biggest S2S Manager 4 1 1 Windows The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager is installed in the Programs section of the Start Menu 1 Select the LaCie Biggest S25 icon to launch the user interface You ll notice the Status window appear on the screen 2 Use the Status window to monitor the LaCie Biggest S25 status The LaCie Biggest S25 Manager dialogs such as the Configuration Mode can be accessed after entering a password The default password is admin The LaCie Biggest S25 Manager allows you to cus tomize your password See 4 2 Customize password QQ Set Program Access and Defaults eo Windows Catalog fn Accessories LaCieTools gt QuickTime FF PY fan Startup SS M MSN Explorer pe Search gt M Roxio IF SureThing Help and Support Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 E Rume W 525 Man
2. CONTROLLER HUB B A JBOD B A JBOD B A JBOD B LaCie Biggest S2S Troubleshooting User Manual page 70 10 Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie Biggest 525 is not TECHNICAL NOTE Manual Updates LaCie is constantly striving to give you the most working correctly please refer to the following checklist to find out where the problem is coming from If you have gone through all of the points on the checklist and up to date comprehensive Users Manuals avail your drive is still not working correctly please have a able on the market It is our goal to provide you look at the FAQs that are regularly published on our with a friendly easy to use format that will help Web site slacie com One of these FAQs may you quickly install and utilize the many functions of your new device provide an answer to your specific question You can also visit the drivers pages where the most recent software If your manual does not reflect the configurations updates will be available of the product that you purchased please check our SON ECE EINES ASAN PIASEC ONAE yom Web site for the most current version available LaCie reseller or LaCie Technical Support see chapter 11 Contacting Customer Service for details 10 1 LEDs and Fan Problem Green OK LED does not light Red FEED is lic LaCie Biggest S25 HOST LEDT is not lit LED1 continuously flashes for one ormor
3. Ta indie Moda Greg J etre 4 232 5 Ca 212 5 CH 4 List permits volume creation and modification on each hard disk drive Hot Spare check box indicates space on this drive is allocated as rebuild space for the selected SAFE volume H Use check box indicates drive membership within a volume H Slider specifies capacity allocated to a volume H Text field shows the capacity specified by ma nipulating the slider H Cap field shows maximum capacity for the hard disk drive H Vol shows the virtual volume with which each hard disk drive is associated LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 41 4 4 2 2 1 Toolbar buttons Button Function Function Reads a saved configuration into the Advanced Permits the storage policy and capacity of an UJ H gt C gt a 5 Configuration Mode so you can apply the con figuration to the LaCie Biggest S2S Available in Basic and Advanced modes existing volume to be modified Saves a configuration to a file on the host com Deletes the volume that is currently selected puter Available in Basic and Advanced modes in the volume list i Cancels proposed changes Available in Basic and Advanced modes l Creates a new volume on which to set the stor Deletes all configured volumes E Copies the configuration of one LaCie Big gest S2S to the current LaCie Biggest S25 a l age policy and capacity
4. SC a Each tab consists of two tables The upper table shows the following system and disk drive status Upper Table Row Tabs The Box Status row shows the state of each disk drive as normal rebuilding unplugged and requiring a rebuild or new drive The Drive Serial number row is the unique manufac turer assigned identifier used to distinguish the hard disk drives within the Storage Appliance The Expected Serial row shows the serial number of the hard disk drive within the bay during volume con figuration The Status window compares the Expected and actual Drive serial numbers to recognize a status change LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 30 The lower table of the Status window notes capacity rows for each implemented volume to show volume information The first row of the table shows individual capacity and capacity distribution amongst the present hard disk drive capacities The table contains additional hard disk drives Lower Table Column Tabs Lower Table Row Tabs The Policy column shows the storage policy used for The Capacity row shows the full amount of storage that volume space in GB available on each hard disk drive The Total column indicates the combined capacity of The Volume row s show s the
5. build in progress LaCie Biggest S2S Monitoring Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 58 6 Monitor the LaCie Biggest S2S Storage Appliance Use the Status window to monitor the LaCie Big gest S2S Storage Appliance 6 1 To Monitor Drive Status Review the color of the drives in the Status window A change in color indicates a change in the following drive states ee PTS WD WCANK117WD WCANK111WD NCANK117WD WCANK1T1T ST car 1 TW0WCANCT TWO WCANKC TT TWOWCANCITY J a c Maaa 6 Qari n i a a EE JOO E32 ESTO ET CX N a _ _ tre me pa pe ja j SAFE 50GB L O 7 p bsa hesa lese l mee _ j6972 568 B l C S e 2 A A S AI 2 RS Refresh 3 _ CO Color Definition Solution Green The drive is active Red The drive is in a failed state That is a write has occurred to a Replace the failed drive Safe volume while the disk drive was offline Rose The drive is offline or unplugged Verify that the disc is securely in the bay Fuschia New drive Yellow The drive is being rebuilt Purple There s a mismatch between the Serial and Expected Serial Plug the correct disk drive into the bay because a hard disk drive has been installed into the wrong bay LaCie Biggest 2S Monitoring Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 59 6 2 To Monitor Temperature The LaCie Biggest S2S uses the following colors to indicate temperature malfunctions Color Definition Solutio
6. i See Biggest S2S Manager v1 0 User s Guide for instructions to upgrade Biggest S2S microcox Finish Up has l l l l I Installing l l l l l 7 LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 24 6 Review the License agreement Click Continue O06 Install Biggest 525 Manager Software License Agreement ur e uction LaCie Group SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Read Me PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BE License DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE OR ANY ACCOMI a DOCUMENTATION COLLECTIVELY THE SOFTWARE Select Destination THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT GOVERN USE OF THE SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU AND LaCie Group COMPA EXECUTED A SEPARATE AGREEMENT Company is willing to license the Software to you only upon the condition that you acc contained in this Agreement By clicking om the accept button below or by downlo using the Software you have indicated that you understand this Agreement and accept vou do not accept all the terms of this Agreement then Company is unwilling to licens you and you may retum the Software fora full refund Your night to return the Softwa expires 30 days after the dute of purchase installation Type Installing Finish Up tA Grant of License Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of Company grants you a non exclusive and non
7. page 38 Storage Policy Drive amp Drive 1 Brive 2 moo SAFE C he L FAST SAFE and BIG i SAFE and FAST Velume Volume Volume 232 5 Gh 232 5 GR Voimme Mode FADE E x Toa Gerster o To Actanted Mode Drive 3 Volume 232 5 GA HS is Cap 2325 0 Cap 232 5 Cll Cap 2325 Co Cap 232 5 Cl Cap 232 5 CH Ti ESONICAL NOTE The volumes table below V the Storage Policy frame lists the volume label plemented storage policy and size BiggestS25 Manager i Specifying a basic configuration will result in all previous volumes being deleted Thus some data could be lost Continue LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 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 S25 The Basic Configuration Mode provides six pre defined storage policies to quickly configure the LaCie Biggest S25 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 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 Using Your B
8. One 50 gigabyte GB SAFE volume on drives 0 taken place it is safe to restore the backed up data and 1 with no reserved space for a Hot Spare to the new configuration See chapter 4 4 3 Parti One FAST volume that uses the remaining capacity tioning Configured Volumes for details on drives 0 and 1 e One BIG volume that uses all of the capacity on drives 2 3 and 4 The same sequence of steps applies to any configura tion you choose to implement only the storage policy and capacity allocation vary for different configuration options 1 Click the Configure Box toolbar button to open the Basic Configuration Mode 2 Click the button labeled To Advanced Mode to open the Advanced Configuration Mode 3 Select the Delete all volumes from the toolbar 4 When prompted to confirm the deletion of the vol umes click Yes 232 5 C 232 5 B 232 5 CS 232 5 C3 232 5 8 eer Meee gt O e gt amp gt CCM Cap 2325C8 Cap TTA Cae SCR Coe TSS l ae Cao 22SCe Cap 212 5 CB Cap IRS Cap 232 5 C Cae 212 5 Ch if IC Jl f lt i LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S25 5 Select Create a new volume B from the toolbar 6 Select SAFE RAID 1 as the Storage Policy Click on the Use check boxes underneath Drives 0 and 1 Move the slide to 50 7 Click Update Volume 8 When prompted whether to create a Hot Spare for
9. face remote to the daemon allows remote monitoring for system fan and hard disk drive failures Identification of a failed part may then allow the service provider to replace failed components before further complications The daemon module listens for connections on TCP port 51115 Do not change this port number Using Your Biggest S25 page D Specify a Configuration File Save in E Biggest 525 Manager e c E Fast xml Recent SafeFast xml Desktop l l l l l l im l l l l l l l My Documents g My Computer 3 Taina File name z Places Save as type Configuration files xml T Prerequisites Ensure you have the following before you establish the remote connection The daemon is running on the PC local to the LaCie Biggest S28 The Configuration Manager user interface module is running remotely e A TCP IP connection can be established between the daemon listening on port 51115 and the user in terface To set upa remote connection 1 Open the File menu in the Status window and select Change connection LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 2 Enter the hostname or IP address of the PC hosting the daemon Click OK 3 The user interface established the requested connec tion and displays the information gathered by the remote daemon in the Status window 4 4 6 Email Notification The Email Notification feature allows the end user
10. storage media such as CD DVD or Tape LaCie offers a complete line of CD DVD and Tape drives and if you would like more information on backup please refer to the LaCie white paper on backup methods and technology LaCie Biggest S2S Introduction User Manual page 1 Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie Biggest S2S This high performance extremely flexible RAID Redundant Array of Independent Inexpensive Disks subsystem is ideally suited for integration with databases imaging systems and e mail and Web serv ers RAID technology is one of the best means to pro tect your data while providing greater data integrity and availability than standard hard disk storage With the ability to provide single error detection and redundant information to recover the original if a disk fails a RAID system is an ideal means to safe guard BIGGEST 525 valuable data while also stream lining performance The LaCie Biggest S2S is the ultimate approach to a flexible RAID solution with its ability to manage vari ous RAID levels 0 1 0 1 and JBOD 1 1 LaCie Biggest S2S Capabilities e Supports powerful RAID 0 1 0 1 and JBOD The newest in Serial ATA SATA technology e Easy installation on PC or Mac LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Your Biggest S2S page 8 2 Your Biggest S2S 2 1 Minimum System Requirements Hardware Windows An Intel PII 500MHz equivale
11. Mac OS Ex tended HFS MS DOS File System and UNIX File System UFS H HES Mac OS Standard Mac OS Standard refers to the file system used by Mac OS 8 0 and earlier This is no longer a modern file sytem specification and Mac OS Extended is more ef ficient Only use this file system if you are creating a volume smaller than 32MB using a Mac with a 680X0 processor or you are creating a file structure that will be need to be used by Macs using Mac OS 8 0 or earlier H HFS Mac OS Extended Mac OS Extended refers to the file system used by Mac OS 8 1 and later HFS represents an optimization of the older HFS file system by using hard disk space more efficiently Building off of HFS they increased the number of blocks from 65 536 to 4 29 billion With HFS you are no longer limited by block size E MS DOS File System 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 d2 TV Hard Drive between Macs and Windows operating systems Single file size is limited to 4 GB File name length is also limited H UNIX File System This is the file system based on UNIX and is pref erable for users developing UNIX based applications within Mac OS 10 x Unless you have a specific reason to use the UNIX File System you should instead format your drive using Mac OS Extended HFS because it provides Mac users with a more familiar operating ex per
12. Select Configure Box from the Edit menu or click the Configure Box toolbar button in the Status win dow to open the Basic Configuration Mode 2 Select Save to Config File from the File menu in the Using Your Biggest S25 Biggest 52S configuration to a file Each of the procedures in chapter 4 4 1 Basic Con figuration prompts you to save a configuration file TECHNICAL NOTE You must have previously L saved a configuration file for one to be available for import See chapter 4 4 2 3 2 Save a configuration file for details 3 Navigate to the required file and click Open to im port it The Basic Configuration Mode provides no tice of a successful import and graphically displays the imported volumes 4 Click OK to implement the imported configuration Basic Configuration Mode 3 Navigate to the appropriate directory specify a file name in the File Name text box and click the Save button LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 4 3 Partition Configured Volume 4 4 3 1 Windows Users The configured volume must be partitioned for use by the Windows operating system before you can begin using it The following example describes the procedures re quired to partition a volume Microsoft Windows al lows you to further segment the configured volume into smaller logical drives if desired Note that when you reconfigure a volume you must first delete previously defined partition s To
13. You can create up to 2 volumes on each hard disk drive 10 total 4 4 2 2 2 Command buttons Button Function To Basic Mode Opens the Basic Configuration Mode Applies the selected storage policy to a specific portion of a hard disk drive as a proposed configura Update Volume l tion Cancel Aborts the pending changes and returns the Advanced Mode to the point where you can perform n g different advanced configuration functions on Submits configuration changes to the Biggest S28 closes the Advanced Mode and displays the PEY updated configuration on the Status window Cancel Aborts the in progress changes and closes the Advanced Mode LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 42 4 4 2 3 Configuring Multiple Volumes The Advanced Configuration Mode allows many IMPORTANT INFO Before P combinations of storage policies and capacities The fol existing LaCie Biggest S25 with a new configura tion back up the data Use the Disk Management utility provided by your OS to delete all Biggest lowing procedure shows how to modify a basic SAFE configuration so that it contains several volumes each with different storage policies This example illustrates S25 except the unallocated un initialized disk one possible combination that allocates all of the sys that represents the LaCie processor Once the con tem s available capacity to ee pacity figuration and partitioning of the new volumes has
14. figuration Mode window This configures the drives using the Big storage policy Within a minute the Status window will reflect the implemented Big storage policy configuration 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details Using Your Biggest S25 page 3 Storage Policy Orive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 l l l l jedo O SAFE ac FAST O SAFE and BIC l l l l l l l SAFE and FAST Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume O Volume 0 232 568 232 5 GB 232 5 GB 232 5 CB 232 5 GB Volume Mode Size gt Total GD s Left aun crs tate ES Cap 232 5 C8 Cap 232 5 GB Cap 232 5 C8 Cap 232 5 CB Cap 232 5 CB TECHNICAL NOTE The volumes table below V th e Storage Policy frame lists the volume label ce BiggestS2S Manager Gq Specifying a basic configuration will result in all previous volumes being deleted Thus some data could be lost Continue LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 37 4 4 1 5 Configure Safe Big The Safe Big storage policy configuration mirrors the concatenated disks to create a volume consisting of four disk drives The Basic Configuration Mode des To Achanoced Modo l l ignates the remaining hard disk drive as a Hot Spare Stompe Policies Dave Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 C p t Before r
15. 17 Click Update Volume vme Mate et Volume Votwrne 1 8 ted In order to edit Volume 1 Volume 2 must be deleted In order to edit Volume 0 all Volumes must be deleted and the end user will need to start with a New Volume LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 18 Click the Write Configuration for System to a File toolbar button to save the configuration 19 Click Apply to create the multi volume configura tion close the Advanced Mode and display the vol umes in the Status window within a minute or so 20 Partition the configured volumes to complete the implementation See chapter 4 4 3 Partitioning Configured Volumes for details 4 4 2 4 Managing Configuration Files The Basic Configuration Mode provides menus and icons to manage configuration files The Read Config File command from the File menu in the Basic Configuration Mode imports a configu ration file so that the end user can restore a previ ously saved configuration storage policy The Save to Config File command from the File menu in the Basic Configuration Mode exports an 4 4 2 4 1 Importing a Configuration File 1 Select Configure Box from the Edit menu or click the Configure Box toolbar button in the Status win dow to open the Basic Configuration Mode 2 Select Read Config File from the File menu in the Basic Configuration Mode 4 4 2 4 2 Saving a Configuration File 1
16. 4 4 6 1 Setting Up Email Notification 1 The box available for the SMTP Server Name can be left blank The Biggest S2S Manager will perform a DNS lookup and automatically find the correct ad dress 2 The box available for the SMTP Server Port uses Port 25 as a default 3 The From To and CC boxes are for specifying the intended receivers of the condition notifications 4 Select Test Email at the bottom of the screen to ver ify that you have correctly set up the email portions of this feature 5 The Email Notification feature also allows the end user to customize a message for each of the line items of which each has its own default message already built in For instance if the end user wants to edit the message for Drive Unplugged a Click on the Message box b The following will appear c The message information can be customized to suit the end user s needs Ihe Daemon can extract the following data from the Biggest S2S hardware Symbol Result B Box serial number T Current temperature DS Drive serial number SF System fan OK flag DN Drive id slot PSF Power supply fan OK flag V Current volume Using Your Biggest S25 page 53 TECHNICAL NOTE In the From box the LA OU should type in your own email address 7 Email Message for Drive Unplugged Biggest S2S Drive Slot DN Eee ST System Fan Speed SF Power Supply Fan Speed PSF The drive was unplugg
17. 58 C l Towcarsten 0 5 CB 0 5 CB O58 0 5 CB 0 5 C8 Cap 232 5 C8 Cap 232 5 G8 Cap 232 5 C8 Cap 232 5 CB Cap 232 5 G8 l l TECHNICAL NOTE The volumes table below V th e Storage Policy frame lists the volume label Biggest525 Manager Gq Specifying a basic configuration will result in all previous volumes being deleted Thus some data could be lost Continue WO WCANK 1 1 TWD WCANK 1 1WD WCANK 1 1WD WCANK 1 1WO WCANK 1 1 WO WCANK 1 1WO WCANK1 1 1 WD WCANK 1 1 TWO WCANK 1 1 1 WO WCANK 17 LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 4 1 4 Configure Big The Basic Configuration Mode implements the Big storage policy by concatenating all the hard disk drives into a single volume Before reconfiguring the Biggest 525 delete previously defined partitions See 4 4 3 Par tition Configured Volume for details To create a Big volume 1 To open the Configuration Mode select Configure Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window 2 Select the Big radio button from the Configuration Mode frame 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con figuration 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 configura tion 5 Click OK to build the configuration and close Con
18. 5e l FAST SAFT and BC l SAFI and VAST 232 5 GE 232 5 232 5 GH a rennen miata H uasa 182 5 CA l l l Haz bpa Hier Spare Hm Spare Hor Spain fin Soe Law Un Lhe Loe Uir R F F _ es p z Q o 0 ti u Cra EET Ean 20S 08 Cap 217 5 ce Cap 2025 CH e l LW l YE j l l i paly T G Cel l 4 LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual 10 Select the FAST radio button in the Storage Policy section 11 Select the Use check box beneath both Drive 0 and Drive 1 This example illustrates two drive striping Aage fr Dri G Dra l Dev n T Dress Cira cat ao ia 12 Move the slider beneath Drive 0 all the way to the se SAFT ond E right to allocate the remaining capacity on the two Saket at m m an Veet EHE B Voire Volurs drives to the Fast volume If you wish you can allocate less than the total re maining capacity to the new volume However do E g 3 ry li 4 ing SO makes the unallocated capacity unavailable rag cr ian BRT TE EAT E rora ey es Ce and unused Air d Cancel 13 Click Update Volume e e 14 Click the Create a New Volume toolbar button 15 Select the BIG radio button in the Storage Policy section 16 Select the Use check box beneath Drive 2 Drive 3 and Drive 4 to allocate all of the remaining system capacity to the BIG volume
19. 6 726 l 220 0 KA Sv Configure _ H options available Tele a voloene pheme chanse d volumne nanet and a formas and resize the volumes never panman han J gt Disk Descr pticn Manter LEGHO Media Total Capacity 192 7 CE 169 928 604 672 Bytes i Connection kus 5091 Write Status Read Write in the Configuration Mode The LaCie Biggest 25 Manager exports a configuration file using the Save to Config File under the File menu of the Configuration Mode ECHNICAL NOTE You can import a config on file from the Status window but its policy ca only be implemented using the Configuration Mode LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 4 4 2 To Export a File 1 Select Save to Config File in the File menu of the Configuration Mode window 2 Navigate to the appropriate directory specify a file name in the File Name text box and click the Save button 4 4 5 Manage Client Connection to the Daemon The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager consists of two modules Daemon User interface The daemon module monitors the LaCie Biggest 925 status and performs Safe volume rebuilds auto matically By default the user interface attaches to a daemon running on the same PC to display the infor mation gathered by the daemon The user interface may also be configured to display information tracked by a daemon module running on a remote PC that is in the same room or at a different site Having the user inter
20. Disk 2 and Disk 3 are allocated to Volume 1 Disk 4 is designated as the Hot Spare 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details Using Your Biggest S25 page 34 To Adhvented Mode Storage Policy Drive 0 Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive Brive 4 O Jeon E SAFE O BiG C FAST C SAFE and BIG l Oswemansr MR ie eet Bua l V lurie Be Lie Total GB s Lett cap 2525 c Gaps 2325 Ga Caps 2325 ft TECHNICAL NOTE The volumes table below f he the Storage Policy frame lists the volume label urrflemented storage policy and size Biggest525 Manager Specifying a basic configuration will result in all previous volumes being deleted Thus some data could be lost Continue das Tes Dune 44 naa Pam Riles 62 Ars es 232 5 GB 232 5 232 5 GB 232 5 GB 232 5 T 1 Jaa 1232 5 68 ana oe 232 5 Ge ace LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 4 1 3 Configure Fast For the Fast storage policy the Basic Configuration Mode creates a single volume of four hard disk drives in a striped format The remaining hard disk drive is des ignated as a standalone volume using the BIG storage policy Note that the LaCie Biggest S2S Storage Appli ance is set to a Fast configuration by default To create a Fast volume 1 To open the Configur
21. Express slot iry the HBA ma PCT slot Operating system does not recog Verify recognition of empty storage device by HBA BIOS Before deleting or nize one or more of the Biggest altering storage device volumes with the Wizard delete partitions residing on the S25 volumes volume To delete partitions first return the storage device to the previous configu ration Ensure the HBA driver is current Troubleshoot driver Verify driver active status For Windows the Device Manager should show the SCSI icon next to the HBA e Resolve resource conflicts IRQ DMA or I O Identify maximum SATA disk drive capacity supported by the operating system and ensure the volume size meets the limits Verify port multiplier support See Host multiplier support options for details LaCie Biggest S2S Troubleshooting User Manual page 72 10 3 Review Event Log Event logs are helpful for troubleshooting and locat ing a system malfunction To review an event log snapshot is invalid can t determine Closing all devices New map table installed lt SVPartialVolume id 0 mode 2 Start BA Previous snapshot is invalid can t determine Closing all devices New map table installed 1 Select Event log within the Edit menu in the Status FW 2006 02 21 16 01 41 2 2006 02 21 16 01 27 3 2006 02 21 16 01 27 4 2006 02 21 16 01 26 5 2006 02 21 15 53 04 2006 02 21 15 52
22. Hei 7 81 Healt 10 07 Unallo 1u He Disk 1 A e e r e e C R ae Basic 3 152 50 GB Online 152 50 GB Unallocated l New Partition Disk 2 Geo Properties Basic 152 50 GB 152 50 GB LEA Gainnckad me B e a a ee LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S25 page 4 4 Click Next to start the Partition Mode 5 Select the Primary or Extended option and click Next 6 Specify partition size The default shows the entire volume capacity If you choose to use a portion of the space enter the partition size and click Next New Partition Wizard Xx Welcome to the New Partition T Wizard This wizard helps you create a partition on a basic disk basic disk is a physical disk that contains primary partitions extended partitions and logical drives You can use any version of Windows or MS DOS to gain access to partitions on basic disks To continue click Next l l New Partition Wizard Select Partition Type There are three types of partitions primary extended and logical Select the partition you want to create Primary partition Extended partition Logical drive primary partition is a volume you create using free space on a basic disk Windows and other operating systems can start from a prim
23. Install to perform a basic installation of this software package on the volume Mac OS X 10 3 5 Select Destination Installation Type Installing Finish Up LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Setting Up Your Biggest S25 10 The install copies and sets up files required for the Biggest S25 Manager Click Close to conclude the installation 11 The Biggest S2S Manager is installed in the Utili ties Biggest S25 directory The Biggest 52S appli cation launches a daemon process to monitor the Biggest S2S Storage Appliance The Biggest S2SUI application launches the Biggest S25 Manager to display the information captured by the daemon The daemon launch script is also added to the Li braries StartupItems BiggestS2SDaemon directory to launch the daemon every time Mac OS is started OO Install Biggest S2S Manager NN Select a Destination Select a destination volume to install the Biggest S2S e uction Manager software Read Me License Select Destination Installation Type Mac OS X 10 3 5 Mac OS X 10 2 8 74 5GB 8 2GB Free 74 5GB 30 7GB Free Finish Up Installing this software requires 184MB of space You have selected to install this software on the volume Mac OS X ita l l l l l installing l l l l l _ res p r Biggest 575 Host Bus Biggest 525 Manager Biggest 525 User s Adapter User s Gudie pdf Resources Cuide pdf
24. LaCie Biggest S2S connection to LaCie SATA PCI X PCI Express Card 71 10 3 Review Event Log 72 11 Contacting Customer Support 73 11 1 Before You Contact Technical Support 73 11 2 LaCie Technical Support Contacts 74 12 Warranty 75 LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Forward page 4 Forward Copyrights Copyright 2005 LaCie All rights re served No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval sys tem or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical pho tocopying recording or otherwise with out the prior written consent of LaCie Trademarks Apple Mac Macintosh and FireWire are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Microsoft Windows NT Windows 98 Windows 98 SE Windows 2000 Windows Millennium Edition and Windows XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Sony and iLink are registered trade marks of Sony Electronics Other trade marks mentioned in this manual are the property of their respective owners Changes The material in this document is for in formation only and subject to change without notice While reasonable ef forts have been made in the preparation of this document to assure its accuracy LaCie assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions in this docu ment or from the use of the informa tion contained herein LaCie reserves the right to make changes or revisions in the product design or the product manual wi
25. M Directory Access LA QuickBooks NUE QuickTime Player LI Retrospect 6 0 Name Oisk Utility 3 Select a configured disk and click Partition tab 4 Select 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme drop down 5 Enter a name for the volume in the Name field 6 Select Mac OS Extended journaled from the For mat drop down 7 Specify the size of the Partition within the Size field 8 Click Partition button LJ Roxio Toast 6 Titanium r LJ Earthlink s Mac OSX gt UI Roxio Toast Lite 6 0 71 IH M Grab a 152 7 cs manor evieom0 cso 0 152 7 G Mator 6 Y16 l ZA 152 7 GB Maxtor 6 Y16 50 132 7 Gs Maxtor 6 Y16 Eh 152 7 G Maxtor 6 Y 16 24 152 7 ce Maxtor 6 Yi6 Z 320 0 KB SV Configure installer J iPod Software Updater La ight Updater 1 0 2 Ls lava a A Keychain Access W Netinfo Manager Network Unity 1 of 30 selected 24 76 CR available Hand Application Mere 7 6 ME on disk 06 360 222 bytes Cremed Monday january J 2005 7 33 PM Modified Monday january 4 2005 7 33 PM Version Disk Utility 10 4 2 Copyright 1999 2004 Apple Computer inc First Ald Erase Partition RAID Restore Volume Scheme Volume information Partition 7 Name JBOD romat Mae O5 tended Goveraies 19 Size 152 67 Select 2 volume scheme Choose volume nante and a format and resize the volumes LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 9 Click Partition to acknowledge
26. Mode window This configures the drives using the JBOD storage policy 232 886 GB L 232 886 GB 232 886 G8 232 886 GB Within a minute the Status window will reflect the implemented JBOD storage policy 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 4 1 2 Configure Safe For the Safe storage policy the Basic Configuration Mode creates two volumes Two hard disk drives make up each volume and mirror each other The remaining hard disk drive is specified as a Hot Spare for both vol umes To create a Safe volume 1 To open the Configuration Mode select Configure Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window 2 Select the Safe radio button from the Configuration Mode frame 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con figuration 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 configura tion 5 Click the OK button to build the configuration in the Configuration Mode window This configures the drives using the Safe storage policy Within a minute the Status window will reflect the implemented Safe storage policy Disk 0 and Disk 1 are allocated to Safe Volume 0
27. a single disk because the same data is duplicated on both disks However the 100 percent redundancy of data does not require a rebuild in the case of a drive failure In that case data can be copied to a replacement disk Recommended Uses T peal Accounting Financial Any use that requires high availability This diagram represents a RAID 1 array consisting of four disks which are connected to the Controller Data blocks are duplicated or mirrored in each pair of disks in the array LaCie Biggest S2S Understanding RAID User Manual page 68 9 3 RAID 0 1 High Data Transfer Performance j Characteristics and Advantages This level combines striping and mirroring which provides full data redundancy and protects data in the Implemented as a mirrored array with RAID 0 event that multiple drives fail provided that the data on arrays as the segments one of each mirrored pair of drives is intact The same fault tolerance as RAID level 5 Storage capacity in this configuration is determined e Fault tolerance overhead is the same as that of by multiplying the capacity of the smallest disk by two If for instance there were four drives installed that PEON ranged in capacity from 40GB to 70GB as a RAID 0 1 High I O rates are achieved thanks to multiple array the total available capacity would be 80GB 40GB striped segments x 2 In this configuration you must have an even num ber of disk
28. are in front of your computer and that you have the following information on hand Your LaCie drive s serial number Operating system and version Computer brand and model Amount of memory installed Names of any other devices installed on your com puter including CD DVD burners LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Contacting Customer Support 11 2 LaCie Technical Support Contacts LaCie Asia Singapore and Hong Kong Contact us at http www lacie com asia contact LaCie Belgium Contact us at http www lacie com be contact Frangais LaCie Denmark Contact us at http www lacie com dk contact LaCie France Contact us at http www lacie com fr contact LaCie Italy Contact us at http www lacie com it contact LaCie Netherlands Contact us at http www lacie com nl contact LaCie Spain Contact us at http www lacie com es contact LaCie Switzerland Contact us at http www lacie com chfr contact Fran ais LaCie Ireland Contact us at http www lacie com ie contact LaCie International Contact us at http www lacie com intl contact LaCie Australia Contact us at http www lacie com au contact LaCie Canada Contact us at http www lacie com caen contact English LaCie Finland Contact us at http www lacie com fi contact LaCie Germany Contact us at http www lacie com de contact LaCie Japan Contact us at http www lacie com jp contact LaCi
29. exceeding 10 of the nomi nal transient over voltages according to over voltage category II General Use Precautions e Do not expose the LaCie Biggest 525 to temperatures outside the range of 0 C to 35 C 32 F to 95 F or to operational humidity beyond 5 80 non condensing or non operating humidity beyond 10 90 non con densing Doing so may damage the LaCie Biggest 525 or disfigure its casing Avoid placing your LaCie Biggest S25 near a source of heat or exposing it to sunlight even through a window Inversely placing your LaCie Biggest S25 in an environ ment that is too cold or humid may damage the unit Rated cooling for altitudes up to 2000 meters Always unplug the LaCie Biggest S2S from the electrical outlet if there is a risk of lightning or if it will be unused for an extended period of time Otherwise there is an increased risk of electrical shock short circuit ing or fire Use only the power supply shipped with the device Do not use the LaCie Biggest S2S near other electrical appliances such as televisions radios or speakers Do ing so may cause interference which will adversely affect the operation of the other products e Do not place the LaCie Biggest 525 near sources of magnetic interference such as computer displays televisions or speakers Magnetic interference can affect the operation and stability of your LaCie Biggest S25 Do not place heavy objects
30. ili Keychain Access Version ne oe 10 4 2 L ape Preferences i opyright i Netlnfo Manager 1999 27004 Apple Network Utility i Computer Inc L ODBC Adinata i Ariston 5 Metta Mili ty amp Music ry pictures irt j E allt SSM tt Tis lof 26 selected 142 04 GB TRIE LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 20 5 Notice that all five drives are visible in their pre con m T T gt gt gt gt figured and unallocated state 320KB SV Configure a ee bed abi Q drive appears in the list to represent the SteelVine AR gt At Aid trase A RAD Restore processor Do not initialize or partition the 320KB ELTTI ee ee SV Configure drive I 1329 aa mere Senet r T add poi ae E 152 7 GB Maxtor 6 Y16 l E 152 7 GE Maxtor 6 Y16 y El 320 0 KB SV Configure 7 bested for ebay No eptions available Lebret a me Lchaame Choose a volume name and ferent aed redise the volumes Delete le Disk Description Maxtor V160MO Media mene Coens sep inset ERRATA ti ah a Cennertion Bws 4C Write 5 adine Connection Type External Conmectbon ID SOU 10 1 gt 2 five 152 7 GB hard disk drives for an Biggest S2S in JBOD bypass mode populated with five 160GB hard disk drives 3 6 Install the LaCie Biggest S2S Manager The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager utility program configures and monitors the LaCie Biggest 52S Storage Appliance The utili
31. improvements Deriving its name from the way that it transmits sig nals in a single stream or serially Serial ATA operates in a point to point topology This connectivity method ology delivers the entire available interface bandwidth to each device allowing each device to operate at its maximum throughput and provides direct communi cation between the device and the system at any time reducing arbitration delays associated with shared bus topologies H What are the key differences between Serial ATA and Serial ATA II technology SATA I requires that parallel ATA drives be config ured as master and slave and daisy chained from each controller Not so with SATA II In addition to deliver ing data at twice the speed of SATA SATA II also fea tures port multiplier options allowing for many drives to be connected to a SATA II controller H What are the features and benefits of Serial ATA and Serial ATA II The Serial ATA specification provides several key features that will help spur widespread implementa tion Tech Tips page 64 Performance Serial ATA is a point to point topol ogy and does not have to share the bus instead dedi cating full bandwidth to the device These dedicated links make creating a Serial ATA RAID array quick and relatively inexpensive to implement Easy installation and configuration There are no de vice IDs termination or master slave conflicts and the standard supports hot plug c
32. the warning The Disk Utility will mount the created partition and represent it with an icon on the desktop 4 4 4 Manage Configuration Files The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager supports volume configuration backup and restoration This feature al lows creation of configuration templates that can be distributed across multiple workstations In addition backups can be used to restore volume configuration on to a replacement unit The Status and the Configuration Mode windows provide menus and icons to manage configuration files The LaCie Biggest S25 Manager imports a configura tion file using the Read Config File under the File menu 4 4 4 1 To Import a File 1 Select Read Config File in the File menu of the Configuration Manager window 2 Navigate to the required file and click Open to import it The Configuration Mode provides notice of a successful import and graphically displays the imported volumes 3 Click OK to implement the imported configura tion Using Your Biggest S25 page 50 PO V A TAR z Lt ie a p7 Meton Disk Mew image lec Partiioedng a dick al dewtroy afl information de the du l Ph tube Hd Are Gu dur teta with a arase th diik Master 1a tore Z 152 7 G Maxtor Y 18 pep ar rn E cso 152 7 GE Maxtor 6 1 l E 152 7 GE Maxtor 6 Y Creme parion l 152 7 GE Maxtor 6 Y 187757 ORS Gouenaied a E 157 7 Gh Maxtor G 16 152 7 Go Maxtor
33. to have the Biggest S25 Manager send an email if any of the following conditions situations occur Partition Rebuild Start Partition Rebuild Partition Verify Start Complete Partition Rebuild Partition Verify Resume Complete System Fan Too Slow Temperature Too High No Boxes Found e Power supply Fan Too Drive Unplugged Slow Box Removed Drive Inserted Each of the above conditions can be customized for sending options as well as the message that is sent This is an example of the Setup Email Notification SCreen Using Your Biggest S25 A Biggest525 Manager Remote Connection HostName localhost Port Number 51115 TEC NICAL NOTE Please note that once S alled the GUI does not need to be running your system to send an email notification Your system PC or Mac needs to be turned on how ever to receive email notifications Hoke Server Name Use DNS lookup if blank SMTP Server Port 25 Use 25 if blank From I ive 2st Edit Message Partition Rehuild Start O Never Everytime Once Every Minute PETTITT O Never L O trey time O once Every Minute pa xe ify Start O Never Everytime Once Every Minute Var ition Verify Complete O Never Everytime Once Every Minute Se Minute E imran aaia Minute 78 oe Gui Minute P CTI Never L O tver time O Once Every Minute l LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual
34. total capacity of each the volume volume and the individual disk capacities assigned to each volume The Drive 0 1 2 3 4 columns provide capacity infor mation pertaining to each drive The File and Edit menus of the Status window con tains the following items File Menu Edit Menu e Change password launches a dialog to establish a new Configure Box launches the Configuration Mode d p e Specify Policy launches the Rebuild Policy configuration Scan Devices refreshes the tabs presented by the Status dialog window Event Log presents the event log viewer e Change connections launch a dialog to make remote Specify firmware launches the Firmware Selection dia connections log for firmware deployment The Status window Toolbar consists of these buttons Button Function Button Function This button opens the LaCie Biggest S2S Con figuration Mode The button opens the Storage Policy Man ager See chapter 3 1 Storage Policies for details The button opens the Event log viewer See chap This button opens the Firmware Manager ter 10 3 Review Event log for details This button opens the Email Notification viewer See chapter 4 4 6 Email Notification for details Di LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S25 page 3 4 4 A look at the LaCie Biggest S2S Configuration Mode The LaCie Biggest S2S Configuration Mode is ac cessible from the Stat
35. transferable license to install and use thc the Softwarc on a single computer solely for your intemal business purposes and so the storage appliance that accompanied this Software You may make a single coy for purposes prov ided that you reproduce on it all copyright and other proprict on the original copy of the Software Company reserves all rights in the Software not lt Pas A ee _ _ SS aS 7 Click Agree to accept the License agreement R Eee ver eRe eee To continue installing the software you must agree to the terms of i i the software license agreement l l l Click Agree to continue or click Disagree to cancel the installation l l m Eee e e Ie ee me I m Fee II ee LG L e e L E E e Ia L Ge G Le e Ge ea L E C emme GLE E C Ce C C _ 7 8 Select the local hard disk drive Click Continue 00 install Biggest 25 Manager CS l Select a Destination E Select a destination volume to install the Biggest S2S e Manager software Read Me License Select Destination Installation Type Mac OS X 10 3 5 74 5GB 8 2GB Free Mac OS X 10 2 8 Installing 74 5GB 30 7GB Free Finish Up Installing this software requires 184MB of space You have selected to install this software on the volume Mac OS X 10 3 5 9 Click Install to begin the installation process 0266 install Biggest S2S Manager l Easy Install on Mac OS X 10 3 5 Click
36. 50 j 7 2006 02 21 15 52 50 0007448 A A QMVM UV e 5 snapshot is invalid cant determine maena _ fee oe mi 2006 02 21 15 51 18 0001448 New map table installed window 2 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 e rm naia sapia te invalid CANA delemnine event and a Message column gives an event descrip 2006 02 21 15 49 aurin 1 gt permes ea 49 000144 lt SVPhysDrive gt tion 02 47 42 Previous snapshot is invalid can t determine Closing all devices New map table installed ry lt SVPhysDrive gt 3 Click Refresh to update the log or click Close to E C close the log S D LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Contacting Customer Support page 3 11 Contacting Customer Support 11 1 Before You Contact Technical Support 1 Read the User Manual and review the Troubleshoot e ing section 2 Try to isolate the problem If possible make the drive the only external device on the CPU and make sure that all of the cables are correctly and firmly at tached If you have asked yourself all of the pertinent ques tions in the troubleshooting checklist and you still can t get your LaCie drive to work properly contact us via the contacts on page 34 Before contacting us make sure that you
37. Guide Storage Manager and Firmware 4 LaCie Biggest S25 Quick Install Guide printed version G Power cable PCI X or PCI Express Card Box Content SAT Il Z PCI X Card 4E 6 LaCie SATA Il 3Gb s PCI X Card 4E or PCF Express ara 7 PC Card CD ROM with User Manual Quick Install Guide and Drivers PCI Card Quick Install Guide printed ver sion IMPORTANT INFO Please save your packaging In the event that the product should need to be repaired or A serviced it must be returned in its original packaging In the event that an individual disk should need to be re Neetfed or serviced please refer to section 5 1 Removing Replacing A Drive LaCie Biggest S2S Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 10 2 3 Views of the Drive 2 3 1 Front View C Drive Bays Each drive bay can hold one inch high 3 5 inch form factor Parallel ATA IDE disk drive 2 Disk Status Indicator Next to each drive blue LED disk not recognized green LED disk recognized 3 Disk Activity Indicator Blinking green LED 4 Host LED indicator Indicates connection with the host G LED Indicates an error BIGGEST S2S 6 OK LED Indicates no problems found S TECHNICAL NOTE For more information about these LEDs see Chapter 8 LaCie Biggest 25 Front Panel LED indicators LaCie Biggest S2S Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 2 3 2 Rear View External SATA
38. II 3Gb s Port Power Switch Power Supply Connector Power Supply Fan Casing Fan OOOOO CAUTION To avoid overheating the LaCie Big Environmental Requirements gest S2S should be installed in a well ventilated area Temperature 0 35 C 32 95 F and in such a way as to maintain sufficient airflow Operation Humidity 20 80 non condensing across the controller chips Also ensure that the eT ee i Ventilation Fan is not obstructed Storage Humidity 10 90 non condensing LaCie Biggest S2S Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 12 2 4 Cables and Connectors 2 4 1 Serial ATA Il and eSATA Your LaCie Biggest S2S uses the latest in SATA technology featuring transfer rates of up to 3Gb s The Biggest S2S comes equipped with eSATA ports and re These are the cables and connectors used to at quires the use of an external SATA cable included tach Serial ATA drives to your computer eSATA Cables and Connectors SATA technology was originally developed to serve as an internal interface delivering improved performance to internal connections Soon after eSATA or external SATA was developed allowing for the use of shielded cables outside the PC eSATA technology was developed to be rugged and i durable eSATA connectors do not have the L shaped Serial ATA Port design of other SATA connectors In addition the guide features are vertically offset and reduced in size to pre vent the use of
39. LaCie Biggest S2S Table of Contents User Manual page Table of Contents Forward 4 Health and Safety Precautions 5 General Use Precautions 5 1 Introduction 7 1 1 LaCie Biggest S25 Capabilities 7 2 Your Biggest S2S 8 2 1 Minimum System Requirements 8 2 2 Package Content 9 2 3 Views of the Drive 10 2 3 1 Front View 10 2 3 2 Rear View 11 2 4 Cables and Connectors 12 2 4 1 Serial ATA II and eSATA 12 3 Setting Up Your LaCie Biggest S2S 13 3 1 Storage Policies 14 3 2 Installation Prerequisites 16 3 3 Installing the PCI X PCI Express Card and Drive 16 3 4 Set Up the Biggest S2S 17 3 5 Set Up the Biggest S2S Disk Drives 17 3 5 1 Windows Users 17 3 5 2 Mac Users 19 3 6 Install the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager 20 3 6 1 Windows Users 20 3 6 2 Mac Users 23 4 Using your LaCie Biggest S2S 26 4 1 To run the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager 26 4 1 1 Windows 26 4 1 2 Mac OS X 24 4 1 3 Biggest S2S Manager Launch Sequence Mac OS X 27 4 2 Customize Password 28 4 3 A look at the LaCie Biggest 25 Status Window 29 4 4 A look at the LaCie Biggest S2S Configuration Mode 31 4 4 1 Basic Configuration Mode 31 4 4 1 1 Configure JBOD Bypass 33 4 4 1 2 Configure Safe 34 4 4 1 3 Configure Fast 35 4 4 1 4 Configure Big 36 4 4 1 5 Configure Safe Big 37 4 4 1 6 Configure Safe Fast 38 LaCie Biggest S2S Table of Contents User Manual page 2 4 4 2 Advanced Configuration Mode 39 4 4 2 1 A Look at the Advanced Configura
40. OS 9 x and Mac OS 10 x see the Important Info note in section 8 2 1 Mac Users for more information You will be dual booting with an Operating System other than Windows NT or Windows 2000 You may need the ability to dual boot down the line Once you have converted a volume from FAT 32 to NTFS there is no going back You can convert from FAT 32 to NTFS but not the other way around H Use NTFS if You want to optimize drive performance under Win dows 2000 or XP You want to encrypt files assign permissions to files or want to audit files for access You will be formatting partitions larger than 32GB You need to store individual files that are larger than 4GB You need a filing system that can be mirrored or structured like a RAID 5 configuration LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 8 3 Serial ATA Il Questions and Answers H What is Serial ATA II The Serial Advanced Technology Attachment ATA II marks the latest rung on the evolutionary ladder of SATA technology SATA II can deliver data at 300MB s twice as fast as its SATA predecessor and more than twice as fast as the Parallel ATA IDE Integrated Drive Electronics interface which has long been used to con nect peripheral devices to the computer Initial Serial ATA technology removed the performance bottleneck of the Parallel ATA specification and follows a clearly defined road map to greater and greater data transfer rates and feature
41. ager Ml Y v v Log Off techsupport Turn Off Computer jiss GH 152 5 GO LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 27 4 1 2 Mac OS X Before the Biggest S25 Manager launches the launch sequence will search for an active daemon and P E macosi0 3 9 launch a daemon if the daemon is not active To initi B Macosio4 bu b TE Biggest 575 Host Bus Biggest 525 Manager a ate the daemon the launch sequence will require that he G Resources 9 v Biggest S2S Manager is installed in the Applications gt Utilities gt Biggest 525 folder 2 of 6 selected 24 76 C8 avaiable 1 Launch the Finder and locate the Biggest 52S pro you provide the administrator user s password The gram within the Applications Utilities Biggest 52S folder Click the Biggest 25 icon to launch the 25 Manager 2 Use the Status window to monitor the Biggest S25 status Biggest S25 Manager dialogs such as the Configuration Mode can be accessed by entering a WO WCANK WCANK WCANK WCANK 11 TWO WCANK password The default password is admin SEM 2 Sy SE SSS To change the configuration requires a password Please input your password now l l 1 l l 4 1 3 Biggest S2S Manager Launch Sequence Mac OS X Before the Biggest S2S Manager launches the launch sequence will search for an active daemon and launch a daemon if the daemon is not active To init
42. ary partition You can create up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and an extended partition Description I C New Partition Wizard Specify Partition Size Choose a partition size that is between the maximum and minimum sizes Maxium disk space in megabytes MB 156155 Minimum disk space in MB 8 Partition size in MB ESE gt Partition size in Fae LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 48 7 Assign a drive letter or mount path and click Next Fie Paiton Wiari Assign Drive Letter or Path For easier access you can assign a drive letter or drive path to your partition Do not assign a drive letter or drive path _Cencel_ 8 Name and format the partition and click Next Format Partition To store data on this partition you must format it first Choose whether you want to format this partition and if so what settings you want to use Do not format this partition Format this partition with the following settings File system NTFS x Allocation unit size Default v Volume label N ew Volume E Perform a quick format C Enable file and folder compression Next gt Cancel p 9 Review the file system settings and click Finish to New Partition Wizard create the logical partitions Completing the New Partition T Wizard You have success
43. ation Mode select Configure Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window 2 Select the Fast radio button from the Configuration Mode frame 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con figuration 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 configura tion 5 Click the OK button to build the configuration in the Configuration Mode window This configures the drives using the Fast storage policy Within a minute the Status window will reflect the implemented Fast storage policy configuration 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details Using Your Biggest S25 page 35 aO 10 0001448 Configuration e l l To Advanced Modo l l Storage Policy DOrived Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Dowe 4 O mo l mas Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume Q Volume Q SAFE S8 ca SACS 58 cs 58 08 58 C8 O ac 10 57 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 l O SAFE and mC SRCE 58 C S8C 58 C8 58 CS SAFE and FAST l Meme meae Sze Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 Volume 0 l 5808 58 Ca 58 CB SRCA 58 CE l Volume 0 Volume O Volume 0 Volume 0 Votume 0 58 G8 58 C8 58 CA 8 8
44. buted across all of the disks in the had four disks installed ranging in capacity from 40GB to 80GB when the RAID 0 array is built your system will see one 160GB 40GB x 4 hard disk While this is a very simple and easily implemented array design RAID 0 should never be used in mission criti cal environments When even just one disk in the array fails all of the data on the entire array will be lost Recommended Uses Video production and editing Image editing e Pre press applications Q lt lt S Applications requiring high bandwidth LaCie Biggest S2S Understanding RAID User Manual page 67 9 2 RAID 1 Mirroring and Duplexin i e Characteristics and Advantages Also called mirroring this level makes a duplicate write on a second or mirror disk every time data is e Can sustain multiple simultaneous drive failures written to a primary disk If one disk crashes there is in most cases A Simplest RAID storage subsystem design Using two controllers or duplexing can speed the data I O rate by writing to both drives at the same Transfer rate for each block is the same as that of a single disk time When using just a single controller operations are slowed because data is written first to the data drive and Data is 100 percent redundant then to the mirrored drive The storage capacity of a two disk RAID 1 array is equal to the storage capacity of
45. ccessfully installed Biggest 525 Manager Click Finish to exit the wizard i Cancel QQ Set Program Access and Defaults eo Windows Catalog gt n Accessories IF LaCieTools Programs To Pe Documents P I QuickTime Settings gi arse w MSN Explorer Search gt M Roxio gt fan SureThing b Help and Support IF Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 gt i 525 Manager d Run Log Off techsupport Windows XP Home Edition LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 23 3 6 2 Mac Users 1 Insert the installation CD into your CD ROM drive 2 Open the installation CD and select the Mac folder ana a Mac OS X 10 2 8 V10 0k9 as shown 3 Double click the Biggest S2S Setup pkg file to begin the installation procedure 4 The start screen appears Click Continue OOO InstaliBiggests25Manager SN Welcome to the Biggest S2S Manager Installer Welcome to the Mac OS X Installation Program You will be guided through the steps necessary to install this software Select Destination installation Type Finish Up l l l l I installing l l l l l 5 Review the Read Me file Click Continue OOO Instal Biggest S28 Manager NN Important Information Biggest S2S Manager v1 README Select estination b Notes installation Type Biggest S2S Manager 1 0 supports Biggest S2S microcode 1 1964 or later
46. d by the manufacturer may void the user s authority to operate this device CAUTION A shielded type power cord is required in order to meet FCC emission limits and also to prevent interference to the near by radio and television reception It is essential that only the supplied power cord be used Health and Safety Precautions Only qualified persons are authorized to carry out maintenance on this device Read this User s Guide carefully and follow the correct procedure when set ting up the device e Do not open your LaCie Biggest 25 or attempt to disassemble or modify it Never insert any metallic object into the drive to avoid any risk of electrical shock fire short circuiting or dangerous emis sions Your LaCie Biggest S2S contains no user serviceable parts If it appears to be malfunctioning have it inspected by a qualified LaCie Technical Support representative e Never expose your device to rain or use it near water or in damp or wet con ditions Never place objects containing liquids on the LaCie Biggest 525 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 La Cie Biggest 525 are electrically ground ed If the devices are not grounded there is an increased risk of electrical shock Power requirements 100 240 V 4 2 A 60 50 Hz Supply voltage fluctua tions not
47. d from Hilgraeve Software at 1 Select Specify Firmware from the Edit menu of the http www hilgraeve com htpe Status window 2 The firmware selection dialog shows all of the Big DL Q enm d TOGE SALT n A ATA 2777703 lip IC Revision Firmwar Copyright l gest S2Ss attached to the PC the current firmware vlocalhost i BiggestS25 Manager 0001448 Polaris rev 1 0 4726 1 1987 Copyright 2006 Silit for each Storage Appliance and the circuit board re vision for each Biggest S2S i Y lt ril 3 Select The Biggest S2S requiring an update l 4 Enter the name of the new firmware you would like ee OMAS ES to use in the Update firmware from file text box or click Browse to find the file on a CD or hard disk anna a V a a 5 Click Install Firmware to begin the upgrade LaCie Biggest S2S Maintaining Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 56 5 3 Configure Safe Volume Rebuild Storage Policy This LaCie Biggest S2S feature is provided to man age rebuilds of Safe volumes When is a rebuild necessary A rebuild is initiated to restore data redundancy for a Safe volume that has entered a vulnerable state In a vulnerable state one of the two mirrored disks goes of fline or is inaccessible Although the Safe volume re mains available during the rebuild process the volume is susceptible to data loss through damage of the remain ing disk until data redundancy is restore
48. d through a re build The rebuild feature also applies to other policies such as Safe Big and Safe Fast What happens during a rebuild The rebuild process restores data redundancy by first utilizing space allocated for a Hot Spare In case Hot Spare space does not exist or has already been rebuilt the Biggest S25 processor rebuilds to empty space on a hard disk drive other than the one containing vulnerable data Following a rebuild it is not necessary to designate ee ee es 1 licy Specificatio space to a Hot Spare for a subsequent rebuild to occur 666 olicyapecinication Rebuild Policy With Automatic Rebuild and Immediate Rebuild Manual Rebuild options selected the daemon module of the Biggest S25 Automatic Rebuild Manager automatically initiates an immediate rebuild Alternatively the daemon may be configured to delay _ Automatic Rebuild Options rebuild until the first write to the Safe volume and the Immediate Rebuild rebuild is absolutely necessary by selecting the Rebuild O Rebuild Only If Needed Only If Needed option The latter setup allows tempo rary removal of a hard disk drive without requiring a rebuild To minimize the possibility of data loss the re build process should be set up to launch immediately With Manual Rebuild selected the user decides when to initiate rebuild following a rebuild prompt ransition program Browse Unless the Biggest S2S Manager is actively moni
49. e Norway Contact us at http www lacie com no contact LaCie Sweden Contact us at http www lacie com se contact LaCie United Kingdom Contact us at http www lacie com uk support request LaCie USA Contact us at http www lacie com contact page 4 LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 12 Warranty LaCie warrants your LaCie Biggest S2S and Drive Bays against any defect 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 Big gest S2S and or Drive Bay s This warranty is void if The LaCie Biggest S2S was operated stored in ab normal use or maintenance conditions The LaCie Biggest S2S is repaired modified or al tered unless such repair modification or alteration is expressly authorized in writing by LaCie The LaCie Biggest 52S was subjected to abuse ne glect lightning strike electrical fault improper pack aging or accident The LaCie Biggest S2S was installed improperly The serial number of the LaCie Biggest S2S or an individual Drive Bay is defaced or missing The broken part is a replacement part such as a pick up tray etc The tamper seal on the LaCie Biggest S2S or an in dividual Drive Bay casing is broken A hard disk from one of the Drive Ba
50. e Password from the File Menu 2 Enter the current password or use admin if you have not changed the default password 3 Enter the new password within the provided fields 4 The entered password must be a combination of 5 or more characters 5 Click OK to implement the new password LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S25 page 29 4 3 A look at the LaCie Biggest S2S Status Window The LaCie Biggest S25 Status window provides a systems summary Take a moment to review the Status window System Status Capacity Information Siac JBOD 232 886 GB _ For each LaCie Biggest 52S attached to the PC the Status window presents a separate tab Each connected PC is identified by its serial number S N on the tab Upper Table Column Tabs The Temp column indicates the current temperature of the LaCie Biggest 525 Storage Appliance 32 C 90 F See 6 Monitor the LaCie Biggest S25 Storage Ap plication for details The Fan Speed column indicates the current RPMs for the system fan The Fan Speed value and system tem perature can be read to diagnose malfunctions See 6 Monitor the LaCie Biggest S2S Storage Application e Columns 3 7 identify the five disk drives PS WD WCANK111WD WCANK111WD WCANK11 1 WD WCANK 1 1 1 WD WCANK1 1 1 WD WCANK111WD WCANK111 Drive Status T eoo 23288668 232886G8M Na EE 32 886 GB _ _________ 232 886 GB a E 23288668
51. e disc drives LED1 remains off for one or more disk drives Rear fan is not running or power supply fan is not spinning Solution Confirm the outlet to be powered verify power connection and try alternate power cable Power cycle LaCie Biggest S25 update the LaCie Biggest 525 firmware Verify the OK LED status to confirm power verify eSATA connection and try an alternate eSATA cable LED1 will flash during a Safe volume rebuild If the LED flashes while the LaCie Biggest S2S is not rebuilding verify eSATA connection and try an alternate eSATA cable Swap disk drives to ensure that this is not an LED problem If the LED off state is specific to a disk drive evaluate disk drive for failure Confirm the outlet to be powered verify power connection and try alternate power cable LaCie Biggest S2S Troubleshooting User Manual page 7 10 2 LaCie Biggest S2S connection to LaCie SATA PCI X PCI Express Card Problem Solution Biggest 525 is not recognized by Verify the OK LED status to confirm power HBA BIOS Verify the eSATA connection and try an alternate eSATA cable Verify recognition of empty Biggest S2S by LaCie PCI X PCI Express BIOS Turn off PCI X PCI Express bus power save mode in the host BIOS Troubleshoot the HBA Alternate SATA port e Connect an alternate device to the HBA Remove all other PCI peripherals to rule out interference Move the HBA to an alternate PCI X PCI
52. econfiguring the Biggest S25 delete previously O sae l defined partitions See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol A ae ume for details CMe ee meu mao Ssa i w l To create a Safe Big volume Total cars Let 57 1 To open the Configuration Mode select Configure gt l Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in ae gt the Status window S TECHNICAL NOTE The volumes table below the Storage Policy frame lists the volume label 2 Select the Safe Big radio button from the Con figuration Mode frame one Simfllemented storage policy and size 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con BiggestS2S Manager figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con Specifying a basic configuration will result in all figuration change may result in total data loss Click previous volumes being deleted Thus some data Yes to complete the configuration u hele 4 Select Save to Config File from the File menu or click the button in the toolbar to save the configura tion WANT 1 TWO WCANR 1 1 TWO WCANK1 1 1WO WCANK1 1 TWE WCANK 1 11 5 Click OK to build the configuration and close Con aaa DEEA ee eee ee figuration Mode window This configures the drives using the Safe Big storage policy Within a minute the Status window will reflect the implemented Safe Big storage policy configuration Drive 4 is designated as the Hot S
53. ed Context sensitive Message Codes T gt Current Temperature SF gt System Fan OK Flag PSF gt Power Supply Fan OK Flag B gt Box serial number DS gt Drive serial number ISDN gt Drive id slot v gt Current Volume LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual d If there is information that the end user would like included in the error message s he can enter it themselves by typing in a selected message code listed above For instance to put in the Box Serial Number type in the descriptive text followed by the message code as demonstrated below e Click on Accept to complete the change 4 4 6 2 Receiving an Email Notification When one of the conditions situations occurs a pop up appears on the host computer stating that a email has been sent The email received from the Biggest S2S will look like this Using Your Biggest S25 page 54 1 Email Message for Drive Unplugged N Biggest S2S Drive Slot DN Temperature T System Fan Speed SF Power Supply Fan Speed PSF The drive was unplugged ontext sensitive Message Codes B gt Box serial number T gt Current Temperature DS gt Drive serial number SF gt System Fan OK Flag SDN gt Drive id slot PSF gt Power Supply Fan OK Flag l l I l l l l l l l l l l l V gt Current Volume l 7 R auti 8 BeaS oa C You forwarded this message on 2 28 06 Sho
54. from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help Modifications to this product not authorized by LaCie could void the FCC amp Industry Canada regulations and negate your authority to operate the product Canada Compliance Statement This Class B digital apparatus com plies with Canadian ICES 003 for CE Certification We LaCie solemnly declare Manufacturers Declaration that this product conforms to the fol lowing European standards Class B EN60950 1 2003 EN55022 1998 EN55024 1998 A1 EN61000 3 2 2000 EN61000 3 3 2001 With reference to the following conditions 73 23 EEC Low Voltage Directive 89 336 EEC EMC Directive This symbol on the product or on its packaging indi cates that this product must not be disposed of with your other household waste Instead it is your responsibility to dispose of your waste equipment by handing it over to a collection point for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment The collection and recycling of your waste equipment at the time of disposal will help to conserve resources and ensure LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Forward page 5 that it is recycled in a way that pro tects health and the environment For information about where you can drop off your equipment for recycling please contact your city waste disposal service CAUTION Modifications not authorize
55. fully completed the New Partition Wizard You selected the following settings Partition type Primary partition Disk selected Disk 1 Partition size 156155 MB Drive letter or path F File system NTFS Allocation unit size Default Yolume label New Volume Quick format Yes To close this wizard click Finish i ea LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S25 User Manual 10 Note the properties selected for the logical partition in the Disk Manager s G pady tree ED New Vou Partition Bask NIFS Healy 152 5 152 4348 CIOWINSP E Partition Rack NIFS Heatly Boot 77a 1 0568 WT IT Battie Ree NTPC Hee B hme I Saat era N aA SHR l lt gt 11 Repeat the procedures 1 9 to partition any of the remaining disks 4 4 3 2 Partition configured volume Mac OS X 1 Review the Configure JBOD Bypass section This example uses the JBOD storage policy to directly ex pose each hard disk drive Rs PUB Os NOI MOON WO WCANK 1 1 1WD WCANK 1 1 TWO WCANK 1 1 TWO WCANK 1 1WD WCANK 1 11 WD WCANK 1WD WCAMK 1 TWO WCANK 1 TWD WCANK TWD WCANK1 11 2 Launch Disk Utility from Application Utilities fold er to view the disk drives P AirPort Set te of Snow ibe labeler H J Aria Text Extras fF Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange Q Bluetooth Serial Urility KZ Sivetooth p Assistant Y ColorSyme Utility Console DigitalColor Meter
56. h the specification supports all ATA and ATAPI devices i e CD DVD tape drives etc and delivers superior performance than both Hi Speed USB 2 0 and FireWire IEEE 1394 external Serial ATA con nectors are intended for storage devices Serial ATA works best in storage environments that require high data throughput to deliver large files quickly and efh ciently maximizing the storage systems utilization and enhancing overall productivity 8 4 Host support Port multiplier Options The LaCie Biggest 52S will only function with the LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI 4E Card or PCI Express Card as the host controller which provides port mul tiplier capability The card will support other external Tech Tips page S Due to its performance reliability scalability and cost effectiveness Serial ATA can be implemented in a wide range of settings from desktop usage to network storage applications Seamless integration Serial ATA maintains register and software compatibility with Parallel ATA and should be transparent to both the BIOS and oper ating system Simply add more Serial ATA links to increase the number of connectivity points in your system devices Please consult the User Manual for the LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI 4E Card or PCI Express Card in cluded with your Biggest S25 LaCie Biggest S2S Understanding RAID User Manual page 66 9 Understanding RAID and Biggest S2S Storage Policies Your LaCie Biggest S2S
57. iate the daemon the launch sequence will require that you provide the administrator user s password 1 Launch the Finder and locate the Biggest S2S pro gram within the Applications Utilities Biggest 52S folder Click the Biggest 525 icon to launch the Big gest S2S Manager LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 28 2 The launch sequence will search for an active daemon Va If the search fails a warning appears Click OK The daemon is not running To launch the daemon you will be prompted for the administrator s password l 3 The Biggest S25 daemon requires administrative 7 privileges Enter the administrator password and Authentication Required I click OK i l I i Please enter your password L I I _ 72 02207707 2 2270 76 700 022 777 00 02907 2200 Re TT Tere R e A r 9 Rr r Ree T e r rO ee E e 4 A notice appears as the launch sequence attempts to iranian start the daemon Click OK In case the attempt fails g Starting daemon Launching GUI This two additional retries occur vill take R Aman 5 Should the daemon fail to start an error message ap pears lt 4 2 Customize Password The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager limits configura tion access with a password prompt The password in formation is stored locally on the server running the daemon The default password is admin To change the password 1 Select Chang
58. ie Biggest S25 Storage Appliance LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 14 3 1 Storage Policies Before you use the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager to mapping the physical to the virtual drives You ll choose configure the Storage Appliance take a minute to study from these policies during the configuration process the following terms The terms represent The LaCie Your choice is important and impacts how best you can Biggest 525 configuration options or storage policies for use the Storage Appliance JBOD A storage policy that grants the host PC direct access to a physical disk drive With JBOD just a bunch of disks the number of available drives is equal to the number of physical drives JBOD is also called the bypass mode as the host bypasses the LaCie virtualization engine to directly access the disk Safe A storage policy configuration in which all data is stored in duplicate on separate disks to protect against data loss due to disk failure At least two drives mirror each other at all times equivalent to RAID 1 Each write goes to both disks Safe provides the highest level of data protection but halves the amount of stor age space since all data must be stored twice To implement the Safe storage policy the Basic Configura tion Mode creates two volumes Each volume consists of two hard disk drives that mirror each other The remaining hard disk drive is specified as a Hot Spare for both volumes Fast A s
59. ience AMPO RTANT INFO If you will be sharing the L fem drive between Mac and Windows operating environments you will want to follow these guide lines Mac OS X prefers that all partitions be the same format therefore only the first FAT 32 partition is guaranteed to mount Mac OS 10 1 x e Works reliably with FAT 32 partitions less than 32GB Mac OS 10 2 x e Works reliably with FAT 32 partitions less than 128GB Does not mount FAT 32 partitions greater than 128GB Mac OS 10 3 x e Mounts any FAT 32 drive of any size Mounts NTFS volumes as READ only TECHNICAL NOTE Mac OS 10 3 x Users Mac OS Extended Journaled Under Panther Apple introduced journaling to the Mac OS Ex tended file system which helps protect the file systems on Mac OS volumes When journaling is enabled file system transactions are maintained and recorded continuously in a separate file called a journal In the event of an unplanned shutdown the OS uses the journal to restore the file system Journaling is also backward compatible and all volumes with journaling enabled can be fully used by computers not running Mac OS 10 3 x For more information please visit Apple s Web site LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 8 2 2 Windows Users Since the LaCie Biggest S2S comes preformatted in HFS the Mac Operating system yu will need to reformat your drive in FAT 32 or NTFS The following information will hopefully
60. iggest S25 page 39 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 stor age policy and capacity allocations that you can create with the Advanced Configuration Mode Experiment with other combinations to allocate the total system ca pacity to meet your needs following page for a diagram identifying the Advanced Configuration Mode s Sections and toolbar buttons LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Using Your Biggest S25 page 40 4 4 2 2 Advanced Configuration Mode Sections fr S Ca a ee Tete Gira Lan ies Drie rne Gi 272 5 CA 232 408 WE aci il Q Storage Policy shows the available storage poli cies that you can assign to volumes The options are enabled after you create a new volume or se lect an existing volume to edit Drive Graph shows Volume Mode storage policy and Size details for currently configured volumes Select a volume to edit or delete it The Total GB s Left field beneath the volume list shows the remaining capacity in gigabytes for all the hard disk drives Volumes displays disk space for each hard disk drive All space allocated to the same volume ap pears in a matching color A hatch pattern indi cates a proposed configuration and a solid block indicates an existing volume
61. k the LaCie website for up dated software and manuals at www lacie com LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 17 3 4 Set Up the Biggest S2S 1 Power down the host PC 6 The LaCie Biggest S25 default configuration is in L E E ded 2 Attach the external Serial ATA cable to the external De ee Oe ea ene DRE OCC see sections 3 1 Storage policies 4 4 A Look at the SATA connector on your host computer The con Configuration Window and Chapter 9 Understand nector is keyed and can only be installed in one ori gt RAID d Beret GIS Store Policies entation Connect the other end of the cable to the LaCie Biggest S25 7 The disks shipped with the unit are formatted HFS 3 The LaCie Biggest S2S supports five drives which i are delivered inside it In case of drive failure do not _ try to replace the drive yourself your warranty will f MPORTANT INFO The disks shipped with become void Please contact your vendor the LaCie Biggest S25 are formatted HFS To use the drives with Windows operating systems or 4 Plug the AC cable into the LaCie Biggest S2S and fe platf between M d PC th the proper AC receptacle and then turn on the La ee Ene E ener see ee en ae the drives must be reformatted For more information 2 Bi s l Cie Biggest 525 using the switch on the back panel sete OD Vr rea N 5 Turn on the host computer and install the Configura tion User Interface soft
62. l To Actvanced Mode ume Drive 0 Deive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 To create a JBOD volume sree SAFE and BIG 1 To open the Configuration Mode select Configure OSom ameca 2755ta rean i eee Mode Site Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window E 4 Total Cos Lett e Cap 232 5 GB Cap 232 5 CH Cap 232 5 GB Cap 232 5 GA 2 Select the JBOD radio button from the Configura tion Mode frame t an C Net Cancel CI NICAL NOTE The volumes table below e Storage Policy frame lists the volume label gt inplemented storage policy and size 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con Biggest525 Manager N figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con E p j j Specifying a basic configuration will result in all figuration change may result in total data loss Click previous volumes being deleted Thus some data Yes to complete the configuration could be lost Continue 4 Select Save to Config File from the File menu or click the button in the toolbar to save the configura tion Jong ee DAEAR o Tes ne DINE Aoa Otin AV Orne 4 en Pos Matus WO WCANK 1 1WD WCANK 1 1 1 WD WCANK 1 1 TWD WCANK 1 1 1WD WCANK 1 1 1 WD WCANK 1WD WCAMNK 1WD WCANK 1 1 1WD WCANK 1 1WD WGAMNK 1 5 Click the OK button to build the configuration in the Configuration
63. make choosing one or the other a little easier H FAT 32 FAT is an acronym for File Allocation Table which dates back to the beginnings of DOS programming Originally FAT was only 16 bits but after the second release of Windows 95 it was upgraded to 32 bits hence the name FAT 32 In theory FAT 32 volume sizes can range from less than 1MB all the way to 2TB It is the native file system of Windows 98 and Windows Me and is supported by Windows 2000 and XP When FAT 32 is used with Windows 2000 and XP though vol ume size is limited to 32GB by the Windows partition utility i e Disk Manager and the individual file size is limited to 4GB H NTFS This acronym stands for New Technology Filing System and it is the native file system for Windows NT Windows 2000 and XP NTFS offers several features that are not available with FAT 32 i e file compres sion encryption permissions and auditing as well as the ability to mirror drives and RAID 5 capabilities The minimum supported volume size for NTFS is 10MB with a maximum of 2TB with no limit to file size Volumes created in NTFS can only be directly ac cessed not through shares by Windows NT Windows Tech Tips page 3 2000 and XP without resorting to help from third party products Guidelines for Choosing FAT 32 Or NTFS H Use FAT 32 if You want to access your data on any Operating Sys tem FAT 32 is compatible with Windows 98 SE Me 2000 XP NT Mac
64. n White Temperature is normal Yellow Temperature is greater than 40 C 104 F Verify that there are no obstructions to airflow in the front and back of the LaCie Biggest 525 unit Red Temperature is greater than 45 C 113 F Ensure constant airflow at the back of the unit If there is no airflow replace the fan Identify the disk drive causing the temperature increase Replace the disk drive LaCie Biggest Ya User Manual Front Panel LED Indicators page 7 LaCie Biggest S2S Front Panel LED Indicators Each disk drive and the host connection have two LEDs to indicate drive status and or host communica tion status see Figure 2 LED 0 is on the left and is typically blue LED 1 is on the right and is typically green Additionally there are two error condition lights that are available for troubleshooting e When the LaCie Biggest 25 is powered on the host scans the disks in sequence as indicated by a brief flash of lights on LED 1 Once the host scan is complete LED 1 is lit for each drive present During disk operations LED 0 flashes as data is transferred to and from the drive and the host Ifa Safe volume is being rebuilt LED 1 blinks slowly on both mirrored disks LED O BIGGEST S2S Off On LED O Off Off OK On Error LED 1 Off On Blink Blink Description Startup or ON indication OK LED will flash during reset and will remain green in all othe
65. n the Big gest 52S power switch to ON You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read To continue 2 Attach the Storage Appliance to the LaCie SATA II with the disk inserted click Ignore Card with an eSATA cable CoE GZ 3 A warning appears Because the Biggest S25 ships with empty drives Mac OS X does not identify a recognizable file system Click Ignore 4 Launch Disk Utility from the Application Utilities folder to view the disk drives C Utilities ka local disks m W7F7tz gt BB Activity Monitor AirPort Admin Utility El AirPort Setup Assistant 3 Asia Text Extras M Audio MIDI Setup Internet Connect G iba g Interne Explorer B Library Fier iPhoto MAU 1 1 2 Update Log e a p r 4 Bluetooth File Exchange R Mail Mai Bluetooth Serial Utility 1 L System Folder l z Microsoft AutoUpdate i storage ie User Guide formation a MEETOD TectDrive Dr Bluetooth p Assistant i Users F Colorsync Utility px Applications 3 EE Omnitrarie c Consol 4 i Y OmniOutliner Documents Preview Disk Utility g d QuickBooks l E Kind Application as Di lity ize 7 6 MB on disk Hay Mavies i QuickTime Player ST Ae _ ast 6 360 222 bytes art amp Safari Erie j Created Thursday August d Sherlock 19 2004 2 26 PM Ca SteelVine Modified Thursday January 27 2005 6 29 AM Stickies ion Di
66. nt or faster CD ROM drive 64 MB of RAM minimum 250 MB of free hard disk space Super VGA 800 x 600 or higher resolution with 256 colors Mouse or compatible pointing device External SATA cable connection between the LaCie Biggest 525 LaCie SATA IT 3Gb s PCI X Card 4E or PCI Ex press Card included Software Windows Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP or Win dows Server 2003 OS with the latest Service Pack installed LaCie Biggest S2S utilities CD included LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI X Card 4E or PCI Ex press Card CD included Mac A Mac G4 500MHz or faster CD ROM drive 64 MB of RAM minimum 250 MB of free hard disk space Super VGA 800 x 600 or higher resolution with 256 colors Mouse or compatible pointing device External SATA cable connection between the LaCie Biggest S28 LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI X Card 4E or PCI Ex press Card included Mac Mac OS 10 3 9 with the latest set of patches in stalled LaCie Biggest S2S utilities CD included LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI X Card 4E or PCI Ex press Card CD included LaCie Biggest S2S Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 9 2 2 Package Content Your LaCie Biggest S2S should contain the following LaCie Biggest S2S RAID system tower and 5 Drive Bays with hard disks Accessories Box Content Biggest S2S Utilities 2 SATA 3Gb s external cable 2 meters LaCie Biggest 525 Utilities CD ROM includes User s Manual Quick Install
67. on Mode provides ad ditional volume management flexibility A 7 7 1040001448 Configuration To Advanced Mode Orive 4 Volume 4 232 886 CB Total Ces Loft s Cap 232 5 GB Cap 232 5 Gal Cap 232 5 ca Cap 232 5 GB Cap 232 5 GB Apply Cancel N e a 7 LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 32 The toolbar of the Configuration Mode consists of these buttons Button Function Reads the saved volume configuration See chapter 4 4 4 1 To import a file for details Writes the saved volume configuration See chapter 4 4 4 1 To import a file for details O Cancels proposed changes Three buttons at the bottom of the Configuration Mode control the affected change s Apply causes the Mode to download the changes to the LaCie Biggest S2S e OK submits configuration changes to the LaCie Biggest S2S and closes the Configuration Mode e Cancel aborts the changes and closes the Configuration Mode The toolbar of the Basic Configuration Mode win dow includes icons that enable functions of the Advance Configuration Mode Please see chapter 4 4 2 The Ad vance Configuration Mode for details LaCie Biggest S2S Using Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 33 4 4 1 1 Configure JBOD Bypass 10 00001448 Configuration a In a JBOD configuration each physical disk is in dependent and is mapped completely to its logical vo
68. on top of LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual the LaCie Biggest 525 or use exces sive force on it Never use excessive force on your LaCie Biggest S25 If you detect a problem consult the Troubleshoot ing section in this manual Protect your LaCie Biggest S28 from excessive exposure to dust dur ing use or storage Dust can build up inside the device increasing the risk of damage or malfunction Never use benzene paint thinners detergent or other chemical products to clean the outside of the LaCie Big gest S25 Such products will disfigure and discolor the casing Instead use a soft dry cloth to wipe the device e Do not attempt to remove a hard Forward page disk from a Drive Bay Removal of a hard disk by anyone other than an authorized LaCie Technical Support representative will void the warranty CAUTION Modifications not authorized by the manufacturer may void the user s authority to operate this device TMF ORTANT INFO Any loss corruption or destruction of data while using a LaCie drive is the sole responsibility of the a d under no circumstances will LaCie be held liable for the recovery or restoration of this data To help prevent the loss 5fYour data LaCie highly recommends that you keep TWO copies of your data one copy on your external hard drive for instance and a second copy either on your internal hard drive another external hard drive or some other form of removable
69. onnectivity Drives can be added upgraded or removed without having to power down the whole system Improved reliability Serial ATA also uses 32 bit cy clic redundancy checking CRC on all transfers to ensure correct data transmissions Due to this CRC capability Serial ATA performs protection and re covery features at multiple levels PHY layer link layer and transport and software layers Command optimization Serial ATA utilizes Na tive Command Queing NCQ and first party direct memory access DMA to intelligently order com mands in an internal queue within the drive with out having to involve the host CPU Judging its own drive head s angular and rotational position the drive selects a data transfer from the queue that will mini mize both its seek and rotational latencies Simplified structure Serial ATA utilizes a more ef ficient signaling voltage 250mV vs 5V for Parallel ATA and much smaller thinner and compact cables and connectors Due to the simplified cabling the reduction in the number of pins and wires the num ber of fault possibilities decreases Seamless integration Serial ATA maintains register and software compatibility with Parallel ATA and should be transparent to both the BIOS and oper ating system Simply add more Serial ATA links to increase the number of connectivity points in your system LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual H What are the ideal uses of Serial ATA Althoug
70. pare The remaining hard disk drives are allocated to the Safe Big volume 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 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 create a Safe Fast volume 1 To open the Configuration Mode select Configure Box in the Edit menu or the corresponding button in the Status window 2 Select the Safe Fast radio button from the Con figuration Mode frame 3 A confirmation box appears Because the Basic Con figuration Mode affects all hard disk drives a con figuration 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 configura tion 5 Click OK to build the configuration and close Con figuration 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 6 Partition the configured volume to complete the im plementation See 4 4 3 Partition Configured Vol ume for details Using Your Biggest S25
71. partition a volume 1 Review the Configure JBOD section configuration This example uses the JBOD storage policy for creat ing a volume for each hard disk drive 2 Right click your My Computer icon and select Man age from the pop up window From the Computer Management Window select Disk Management under Storage to open Windows Disk Manager 3 Right click on the configured disk s unallocated space and select New Partition If they new partition op tion is not available select the disk and initialize it first Using Your Biggest S25 page 46 taggest OS System RAID Condiguration LR t y OW el S A 001060 EE ECET Malke OCTA EE T TETA INE HHS S l Be seen ves trd m biie ts j 3 B jan HERAF 4 24 G MTPS piit Meaty EIA Corda Heakhey peal on lt ee lt ee NNS a m 2 Pes Nica ans led maliit EIWINXP E Partition Basic NTFS Healthy Boot 9 77 GB 1 05 GB CSI WIN2K C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy System 9 77 GB 5 14 GB Management Local h Tools ent Viewer lared Folders al Users and Groups formance Logs and Alerts vice Manager k movable Storage sk Defragmenter fk Management es and Applications lt EwDisk 0 Basic WIN 74 53 GB 19 77 Online Healt WIN 9 77 Healt so 3 91 199t 29 72 He Heal He Free p 0
72. r Setup will add program icons to the Program Folder listed below You may type a new folder name or select one from the existing folders list Click Next to continue Program Folders S25 Manage Existing Folders Adnasstraive Tools D RAM Games Java 2 Runtime Environment LaCie blue eye 2 LaCieT ools Lavasoft Ad Aware SE Personal Oxford Semiconductor x InstallShield LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 7 Click Next to begin the installation process 8 The install program will then copy and setup all files required for the LaCie Biggest S2S Manager When complete the following screen should appear 9 The LaCie Biggest S2S Manager is installed in the Programs section of the Start menu under S2S Man ager as shown below The installation creates a short cut Ihe S2S Manager application displays the infor mation captured by a daemon which monitors the S2S Storage Appliance The daemon is installed as a service during the installation 10 The daemon is launched every time Windows is started Setting Up Your Biggest S25 page 22 MnstallShield Wizard j E xy Start Copying Files Review settings before copying files Setup has enough information to start copying the program files If you want to review or change any settings click Back If you are satisfied with the settings click Next to begin copying files Current Settings 20 7 The InstallShield Wizard has su
73. r cases The LED will light as a result of an EEPROM error during boot or following a run time error Description Power On No device at tached PHY communication estab lished Activity LEDO On Rebuild Error LaCie Biggest 2S Tech Tips User Manual page 61 8 Tech Tips 8 1 Available Storage Capacity Each disk drive and the host connection have two TECHNICAL NOTE Storage capacity of an hea tray depends on the RAID level The capacity of RAID array can be found by multiplying the ca LEDs to indicate drive status and or host communica tion status see Figure 2 LED 0 is on the left and is typically blue LED 1 is on the right and is typically pacity of the drives in the array by the number of reen g non redundant drives Additionally there are two error condition lights that are available for troubleshooting When the LaCie Biggest S2S is powered on the host scans the disks in sequence as indicated by a brief flash of lights on LED 1 Once the host scan is complete LED 1 is lit for each drive present e During disk operations LED 0 flashes as data is transferred to and from the drive and the host If a Safe volume is being rebuilt LED 1 blinks slowly on both mirrored disks LaCie Biggest S2S Tech Tips User Manual page 62 8 2 File System Formats 8 2 1 Mac Users You have the option of formatting the drive in one of four formats Mac OS Standard HFS
74. r more information about RAID lev els see chapter 9 Understanding RAID and Big gest S25 Storage Policies IMPORTANT INFO The disks shipped with the Le Cie Biggest S2S are formatted HFS To wse the drives with Windows operating systems or for cross platform use between Mac and PC the drives must be reformatted For more information see section 8 2 File System Formats this case is equivelent to that of a four drive vol ume Also refer to the note on the following page concerning the partition limitation for Windows users LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 16 In order to run the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager you must first install the LaCie SATA II Card and its asso ciated driver This setup allows a software and hardware link between the PC and the LaCie Biggest S25 3 2 Installation Prerequisites e Mac G4 500MHz or faster with Mac OS X with latest set of patches installed PC with Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 OS with latest service pack installed e 64MB RAM 250MB free hard disk space External SATA cable connection between the LaCie Biggest S2S Storage Appliance and the PC The LaCie Biggest S25 Installation CD 3 3 Installing the PCI X PCI Express Card and Drive Refer to your LaCie SATA Card Quick Install Guide included on your LaCie SATA II Card CD for information on card installation Please be sure to chec
75. rance rerea iil Z PE Sate Tost Heskthy Linkter Partition 1 00 G TT 1 ho On Event Viewer a aus Hetthy Linke Partian A G 7 91 2 0 Ne os Shared Fete Partition Base Hesthy inion Patio 100G4 Li 1a ho Cri FOOTON E Partition Gii Heathy nen ab E Site 100 ho 04 bates Partition Base Hewthy lndteenfebion 35168 39169 109 Ne pi x Ad reg Miba ___ RE frio Partian 3 74 mer i Rervervable Storage Basic Cwek WEEP f feck Defragmenter 74 53 08 977 G01 9 77 G01 fi a 1 112 94 G SRT 40038 ai kL Disk Management Onine Healing Haaki f Hest Hantha Haak Healthy Hips nigel Hoary Linadscate E3 Apek 1 lt 152 65 CE 152 66 GH Mot Drubigized Lnaglorsted Not j Unallocated Pa m aii i of eed om j ok 5 L brh y ace 152 66 GB 52 68 GB Not betaine Unalocated sk amp Licker TECHNICAL NOTE Windows recognizes five 152 50GB hard disk drives for an LaCie Biggest S25 in Bypass mode populated with five 160GB hard disk drives l l LI 7 l eu l l EE aie l l l l l l l LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 19 3 5 2 Mac Users The Biggest S2S Storage Appliance houses five con figurable disk drives 1 Plug the Biggest S25 into an outlet and tur
76. rd disk drive as a Hot Spare Safe Fast A volume configuration in which an array of stripes is created Each stripe consists of two mirrored drives Safe Fast provides the I O load balancing features of striping and the added reliability of mirrored data equivalent to RAID 1 0 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 LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 15 Hot Spare One or more disk drives are unused during normal operation and are configured to be a spare If an active drive in a Safe volume fails the data on the remaining disk is duplicated on to the Hot Spare to regain redundancy All Safe volumes can have a designated Hot Spare Safe Safe Fast and Safe Big Volume A virtual or logical disk comprised of one or more physical disks Once you create a volume the operating system uses and maintains the volume as if it were a single physical disk This allows software to overcome restrictions imposed by physical disk drives Daemon Component of the Biggest S25 Manager responsible for status tracking and Safe volume rebuilds See 4 4 5 Manage Client Connection to the Daemon for further details regarding the daemon 4 M PORTANT INFO Your LaCie Biggest S28S comes preconfigured in Fast mode similar to RAID 0 Fo
77. s so in the case of the LaCie Biggest 525 you Excellent design for those seeking high perfor would need to have four hard disks installed mance without achieving maximum reliability 7 Recommended Uses D E This diagram represents a ne RAID O 1 array consisting of 3 Imaging Ap P lications D four disks which are connected to the Controller General Fileserver The Controller creates two matching RAID O arrays on A the four disks LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual Understanding RAID page 69 9 4 JBOD Just a Bunch of Disks JBOD or Just a Bunch of Disks is not a numbered RAID level However it is similar because it is an Array of Inexpensive Disks The process takes multiple drives and combines them into a single virtual drive without redundancy The disks are strung together end to end JBOD is similar to the opposite of partitioning While partitioning creates two of more logical drives Daisy Chain Configuration CONTROLLER A JBOD B A JBOD B A JBOD B A JBOD B A JBOD B Hub Based Configuration NELE out of one physical drive JBOD uses two or more physi cal drives to make one logical drive Storage capacity of determined by adding the ca pacities of the individual physical drives Thus a JBOD array could combine a 3 GB 15 GB and 5 5 GB physi cal drives into a 23 5 GB logical drive A JBOD array can be figured using hubs or a daisy chain
78. supports several different plication The storage policies of the LaCie Biggest 25 RAID levels 0 1 0 1 and JBOD This section will Safe Fast Big and JBOD are combinations of these help you decide which RAID level is right for your ap RAID levels 9 1 RAID O Striped Disk Array Without Fault Tolerance E Characteristics and Advantages Also called striping this level offers high transfer rates and is ideal for large blocks of data where speed Data is broken down into blocks and each block is of the utmost importance RAID 0 implements a is written to a separate disk drive striped disk array where all of the hard ge are ae E n ei together to form one large aggregate hard disk In this i l across multiple drives configuration data is broken down into blocks and each block is written to a separate disk drive within the array Overhead is lowered due to no calculations for I O performance is greatly improved by spreading the I parity O load across several drives In this array however when CEU Aa al ae Simple design and easily implemente one disk fails all of the data on the array is lost 2 oe Storage capacity is determined by the smallest disk in the array and the smallest disk s capacity is applied to all of the other disks in the array So for instance if you This diagram represents a E RAID O array consisting of D four disks which are connected to the Controller Data blocks are distri
79. the SAFE volume click No In some configurations you may want the added redundancy of a Hot Spare The goal of this example is to use all available system capacity to deliberately avoid the Hot Spare 9 Click the Create a New Volume toolbar button Cross hatches identify allocated space for updated volumes not yet saved Light solid colors identify unallocated disk space A d f To Base wose 1 gt Orve 3 Driwe 4 war Bc FAST SAFI and BC l SAFE amt FA 232 5 C 232 5 232 5 CB 232 5 C3 232 5 a l srne Moce Hot Seve H 24 Sere Ha Spore bent Saare Use _ Wee Lee Use Lee e o gt o y all 9 o Q 0 menusa SS ee l N dopey j Cancel NICAL NOTE Click to the right or left e slider within the sliders channel to make J l Te Bate Mode i tI l Utnrage Povey Orve Orve 1 Orve 2 Drive 3 Orive 4 l D moo l SAFE ou J FAST SAFE and SG l3 SAFE and FAST l Es A a EEE 232 CB 232 5 CB 232 5 CA 212 5 Ch l e iS ea 0 l l Mass Spare wr Sew TI Hot Spare D Hat Saure T Hot Spare l A Une S Une 5 z i 3 0 0 o o Cap 20258 Cap SCH Cap 232500 Cp PSH Cap PSR resc rs ea Geese Gama Gems i l Update Volume or SD Od 7 fa Daus Moa l l mu Poslee y Dreve i Dit Taai Dire 4 moo nat Venera l G Sari Oca 53 Ca
80. thout reservation and without obligation to notify any person of such revisions and changes LaCie Biggest S25 Tested To Comply With FCC standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE FCC Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following conditions 1 The devices may not cause harmful interference 2 The devices must accept any interfer ence received including interference that may cause undesired operation NOTE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protec tion against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruc tions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful in terference to radio or television recep tion which can be determined by turn ing the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try and correct the inter ference by one or more of the following measures e Reorient or relocate the receiving an tenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an out let on a circuit different
81. tion Mode 39 4 4 2 2 Advanced Configuration Mode Sections 40 4 4 2 2 1 Toolbar buttons 41 4 4 2 2 2 Command buttons 41 4 4 2 3 Configuring Multiple Volumes 42 4 4 2 4 Managing Configuration Files 45 4 4 2 4 1 Importing a Configuration File 45 4 4 2 4 2 Saving a Configuration File 45 4 4 3 Partition Configured Volume 46 4 4 3 1 Windows Users 46 4 4 3 2 Partition configured volume Mac OS X 49 4 4 4 Manage Configuration Files 50 4 4 4 1 To Import a File 50 4 4 4 2 To Export a File 51 4 4 5 Manage Client Connection to the Daemon 51 4 4 6 Email Notification 52 4 4 6 1 Setting Up Email Notification 53 4 4 6 2 Receiving an Email Notification 54 5 Maintaining Your Biggest S2S 55 5 1 Removing Replacing a Drive 55 5 2 Install New Firmware Upgrade 55 5 3 Configure Safe Volume Rebuild Storage Policy 56 6 Monitor the LaCie Biggest S2S Storage Appliance 58 6 1 To Monitor Drive Status 58 6 2 To Monitor Temperature 52 7 LaCie Biggest S2S Front Panel LED Indicators 60 8 Tech Tips 61 8 1 Available Storage Capacity 61 8 2 File System Formats 62 8 2 1 Mac Users 62 8 2 2 Windows Users 63 8 3 Serial ATA II Questions and Answers 64 8 4 Host support Port multiplier Options 65 9 Understanding RAID and Biggest S2S Storage Policies 66 9 1 RAID 0 66 9 2 RAID 1 67 9 3 RAID 0 1 68 9 4 JBOD 69 10 Troubleshooting 70 10 1 LEDs and Fan 70 LaCie Biggest S2S Table of Contents User Manual page 3 10 2
82. torage policy configuration in which I O processing is balanced evenly to all disks in a method known as striping equivalent to RAID 0 Fast offers the best performance in terms of speed but no redundancy of data Striping increases storage operation speed by using several disk drives in parallel Each portion of data is divided into segments which are written to different disks simultaneously Striping provides im proved performance but does not enhance reliability because there is no way to retrieve or reconstruct data stored on a failed drive Please check the LaCie website for updates of the User s Manual reflecting product updates Big A storage policy configuration in which multiple physical drives are strung together concatenated and treated as one large volume Big provides the maximum amount of storage space but no additional perfor mance or data redundancy This configuration allows you to increase logical volume size beyond the capacity of individual drives The Basic Configuration Mode implements the Big storage policy by concatenating all the hard disk drives into a single volume Safe Big A storage policy configuration in which one half of the available storage space is concatenated The other half mirrors the first half to provide full data redundancy The Safe Big storage policy configuration mir rors the concatenated disks to create a volume consisting of four disk drives The Basic Configuration Mode designates the remaining ha
83. tored the Automatic rebuild should be set up to minimize the P Accept Cancel as nom I possibility of data loss LaCie Biggest S2S Maintaining Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 57 In case you select No in response to a rebuild prompt select Scan Devices from the File menu of the Status window to trigger a new prompt If a power failure in terrupts a rebuild the daemon will restart the rebuild Process To configure a rebuild 1 Select Specify Policy under the Edit menu of the Status window 2 Select one of the following policy options The Manual rebuild radio button requires a user to manually initiate a rebuild of the volume The Automatic rebuild option forces the daemon to initiate the rebuild process automatically and mini mize the possibility of data loss 3 If you select the automatic rebuild option you have the following choices within the Automatic Rebuild Options frame The daemon can be configured to perform an Im mediate Rebuild following detection of an offline hard disk drive The Rebuild Only If Needed option will delay the rebuild for a Safe volume with an offline hard disk drive until the write occurs to the Safe volume 4 Click the Accept button to commit the selected op tions i The Rebuild Policy information was successfully saved en ee The daemon uses the specified rebuild policy to maintain redundancy The Status window displays a re
84. ty consists of a daemon and a user interface installed by the setup program on the LaCie Biggest 52S installation CD 3 6 1 Windows Users 1 Insert the installation CD into your CD ROM drive 2 Open the installation CD and select the Windows folder as shown 3 Double click on the LaCie Biggest S2S Setup pro gram to begin the installation procedure LaCie Biggest S2S User Manual 4 The InstallShield Mode start screen will soon ap pear Click Next to continue 5 Next select the location on your computer to install the program If you do not have a preference click Next to use the default location 6 Next select the Program Folder into which the shortcuts should be placed If you do not have a pref erence click Next Setting Up Your Biggest S25 page 21 PnstallShield Wizard Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Biggest 525 Manager The InstallShield Wizard will install Biggest S25 Manager on your computer To continue click Next 7 EnstallShield Wizard l Choose Destination Location Select folder where Setup will install files Setup wil install Biggest S25 Manager in the following folder To install to this folder click Next To install to a different folder click Browse and select another folder Destination Folder C LaCie Group Biggest 25 Manager l l l l l l l l l l l l InstallShield l Select Program Folder Please select a program folde
85. unshielded internal cables in external ap plications TECHNICAL NOTE The Biggest S2S will A work with a LaCie SATA Card which uses Serial ATA Cable an eSATA cable TECHNICAL NOTE Performance can vary LA from one Mac or PC to another performance Nwe varies depending on the port used PCI X or PCI Express LaCie Biggest S2S Setting Up Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 13 3 Setting Up Your LaCie Biggest S2S This chapter covers the installation and configuration of your LaCie Biggest S28 A relatively easy process you will be guided through the five following steps Step 1 3 1 Storage Policies Terms to know before you configure the Storage Appliance The terms Page 14 represent LaCie Biggest 52S configuration options Step 2 3 2 Installation Prerequisites What you need to install the LaCie Biggest S25 Page 16 Step 3 3 3 Installing the PCI X PCI Express Card and Driver In order to run the LaCie Biggest Page 16 S25 Manager you must first install the LaCie SATA II 3Gb s PCI 4E Card or PCI Express Card and its associated driver This setup allows a software and hardware link between the PC and the LaCie Biggest 525 Step 4 3 4 Set up the LaCie Biggest S25 disk drives The Lacie Biggest S2S box houses five con Page 17 figurable disk drives Step 5 3 5 Install the LaCie Biggest S25 Manager The LaCie Biggest S25 Manager utility pro Page 17 gram configures and monitors the LaC
86. us window and allows volume management The Basic Configuration Wizrd defines volumes based on a selected storage policy and does not allow volume counts or capacities to be modified To protect against unintended changes the LaCie Biggest 525 Manager prompts for a password the first time the Mode is accessed see 4 2 Customize password for ad 4 4 1 Basic Configuration Mode Take a moment to review the LaCie Biggest S25 Basic Configuration Mode window Basic Configuration Mode Components The Storage Policy frame on the left consists of six radio buttons representing available storage policies See 3 1 Storage Policies The volumes table below the Storage Policy frame consists of a Volume Mode and Size columns to summarize the created volumes The Total GB s Left box in the lower left window shows the remaining capacity in GB for all the disk drives The remainder of the Configuration Mode graphically displays disk space All space allocated to the same vol ume appears in a matching color The Configuration Mode displays a hatch pattern to indicate a proposed configuration while a solid block indicates an existing volume ditional information on password management The Configuration Mode runs in one of two modes The Basic mode of the Configuration Mode defines vol umes based on a selected storage policy and does not allow volume counts or capacities to be modified In Advanced mode the Configurati
87. w Forward l l From 525 l Date Tuesday February 28 2006 7 48 AM l To csutton lacie com Cc eboila lacie com l Subject Biggest S2S Manager Test Event Message This is a test message to verify email notification LaCie Biggest S2S Maintaining Your Biggest S2S User Manual page 55 5 Maintaining Your Biggest S2S 5 1 Removing Replacing a Drive In the event that an individual hard disk fails in the CAUTION Do NOT attempt to replace a hard LaCie Biggest S25 please contact your LaCie reseller or disk yourself Removing a hard disk from a Drive LaCie Customer Support Additional spare Drive Bays Bay will void the warranty with pre installed hard disks may also be purchased sold separately 5 2 Install New Firmware Upgrade The LaCie Biggest S2S may periodically have re P IMPORTANT INFO Array configuration and leases of updated firmware Visit LaCie s Web site _ data are not affected by firmware updates Zin ae Sate www lacie com for the latest firmware update Ex perienced system administrators may want to install the latest firmware available for the LaCie Biggest 525 S TECHNICAL NOTE HyperTerminal is a standard bundle with the Microsoft Windows op erating system and is located in the Communica Storage Appliance and can reset the Biggest S2S should that become necessary tions folder If you do not have a version installed Install new firmware it may be downloade
88. ware from the supplied CD 3 5 Set Up the Biggest S2S Disk Drives 3 5 1 Windows Users 1 The LaCie Biggest 52S box houses five configurable disk drives PL My Computer Card with an external SATA cable Recycle Bin 2 Plug the LaCie Biggest 525 into an outlet and flip Open the LaCie Biggest S25 power switch to ON Explore 2 Search 3 Attach the Storage Appliance to the LaCie SATA II Manage gt idY Map Network Drive 4 To view the disk drives right click on the My Com puter icon and then select Manage L Disconnect Network Drive Create Shortcut Show Deskto Delete Rename Properties LaCie Biggest 2S User Manual Setting Up Your Biggest S25 4 Click Disk Management under Storage to view the disk drives In case an Initialize and Convert Disk Mode dialog appears click Cancel to abort it and proceed to Disk Management Notice that all five drives are visible in their pre configured and unallo 4 Computer Hanpemant page 18 cated state The Status window provides details of the volume allocation A sixth device appears without ca pacity in the list to represent the SteelVine processor This device will appear for all Biggest S2S configura tions Do not initialize or partition this drive ome Pee E Conpater Hanagemert Local sane Tuos tze Neste See O eap oe sce Pres Faut Tole
89. ys was removed or replaced by someone other than a LaCie techni Warranty page 5 cian or a repair technician authorized by LaCie 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 interrup tions Any loss corruption or destruction of data while us ing 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 Techni cal 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 Warr anty All drives returned to LaCie must be securely pack aged in their original box and shipped with postage pre paid IMPORTANT INFO Register online for free A ir ical support www lacie com register

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