Adding Disks To An Empty Enclosure; Choose A Compatible Hard Drive; Select The Correct Disk Tray - LaCie d2 network 2 User Manual

ADDING DISKS TO AN EMPTY ENCLOSURE

Note: This section only applies to new, diskless LaCie NAS enclosures. When following the
directions below, please install one or more disks that have not been formatted and do not
contain system information. If you own a 2big Network 2 or 5big Network 2 with hard drives pre-installed
in one or more disk slots, please go to
connected to the network during this process. To reset your LaCie NAS to its factory default, go to
Factory Conditions.
Please follow the order of operations when adding hard drives to your diskless LaCie NAS enclosure:
1.

Choose a compatible hard drive

2.

Select the correct disk tray

3. Remove the empty disk tray
4. Secure the disk
5. Power on and initialize the LaCie NAS
6. Format the disk(s)
See the full explanations for each step below.
1. CHOOSE A COMPATIBLE HARD DRIVE
When adding a new drive to an empty slot, consider a
and optimized for use with LaCie NAS.
If you are installing non-LaCie disks, please check the list of supported
guarantee performance or functionality when using unsupported drives.
Only 3.5" SATA II drives may be used in the NAS enclosure.
LaCie recommends selecting drives that are equal in storage capacity. For example, if the first drive has a 1TB
disk, fill all the slots with 1TB drives.
2. SELECT THE CORRECT DISK TRAY
Please make certain to add new drives in the order of the numbered slots.
5big Network 2
The first disk should be inserted into Disk Slot 1 on the far left. If you have additional drives, insert the second
disk into Disk Slot 2, the third disk into Disk Slot 3, etc.
d2, 2big, and 5big Network 2 User Manual
Connect to the Network. Note that the product does not need to be
LaCie 5big Drive. LaCie drives are specially prepared
Network Hard Drives. LaCie cannot
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