LaCie d2 Quadra 1TB Raid 1 Firewire 800

How to connect 2 LaCie d2 Quadra drives in Raid 1 for extra security. I use this Raid array for storing anything I can't afford to lose. Lets hope they both don't die at the same time then...

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Science & Technology

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• LaCie
• d2
• Quadra
• 1TB
• Raid
• Firewire
• 800

[RichardDeClare]

Yes I don't see why not as time machine will backup to a location. So set up the RAID and then point time machine to that Logical drive... have fun

Hi re the using other hdd disks such as iomega, sure and this is probably a good idea to mix two manufactures drives over the logical drive, what I mean is 2 drives forming a RAID 1 logical drive...

The Lacie have a great aftersales and all their drives have worked really well since I set them up..

[RichardDeClare]

Yes I don't see why not as time machine will backup to a location. So set up the RAID and then point time machine to that Logical drive... have fun

[RichardDeClare]

Hi, the drives are daisy chained. The cable from the FireWire port on the iMac goes to drive 1 then there is a cable from drive 1 to drive 2 etc I have 3 drives using the FireWire port on the iMac

[RichardDeClare]

I use this configuration with final cut express and edit HD video and the speed seems fine

[yukikawaguchi]

can you tell me what it does???

[RichardDeClare]

I have alote of high resolution video which just eats storage space so I need at least 1TB of space. I have the 2 drives in a Raid Array so that they mirror each other. So if 1 drive fails I don't lose any data. Just replace the drive and rebuild the array. Its an industry standard on internal server drives but this is with external. Works really well and fast!

[wnet8]

I tried connecting my Lacie d2 Quadra 2TB drive to my iMac via Firewire 800 along with a Western Digital drive chained to the Lacie and my iMac started going haywire. Fan stopped working, iMac wouldn't boot up properly.

I finally disconnected everything, got the iMac running again and then connected the Lacie Quadra to my iMac via usb. Now it works. Go figure.

[Votantonio2000]

Is it possible to set a RAID like this for the Time Machine backup hard disk?

Thank You.

[gamefreakindustry1]

Can you set other hdd disks(iomega) as raid1?

[Arri84]

for wht the hell you didn't buy the 2T version as well as one unit at all??

[renatosamba]

Hi,

nice video!

my 1tb is burned... which 2tb should replace it with no problems?

I can guess too... so, do you know what would work FOR SURE ?

thanks!

[Chellyg]

Very informative video.

Thank you.²

[ricgarcas]

Hello! Nice tut. I have a question. How did you plug in the drives if the imac has only one Firewire input. Did you use an external FW card? Thanks!!