LaCie Databank user manual Cables and Connectors, Views Of The Drive

LaCie Data Bank Hi-Speed USB 2.0	2. Your LaCie Drive
User’s Manual	page 8

2.2.2. Views Of The Drive

1Activity LED – This light shows you that the drive is powered on and also shows when the disk is being accessed for read-write operations.

2Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Port – This is where you plug in the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable shipped with your drive. Please see section 3.1. Connecting The Drive To Your Computer for more information.

3Optional Power Supply Port – This is where you plug in the optional USB Power

Sharing Cable. Please see section 3.2. Connecting The Optional Power Sharing

Cable for more information. (This cable is sold separately)

2.3. Cables and Connectors

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USB

USB is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 is the latest implementation of this standard, and it provides the necessary bandwidth and data transfer rates to support high- speed devices such as hard drives, CD/DVD drives and digital cameras.

Benefits of the USB standard include:

•Backwards compatibility: Hi-Speed USB 2.0 works with the original USB specifications.

•Hot-swappable: no need to shut down or restart your computer when adding or removing devices.

Please see USB Questions And Answers for a more detailed discussion of USB’s uses and capabilities.

USB Icons

These icons will help you easily identify the USB interfaces. They appear on USB cables and next to the USB port connectors on certain computers.

USB 1.1 icon USB 2.0 icon

USB Cables

Your LaCie drive is shipped with a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable, to ensure maximum data transfer performance when connected to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. The cable will also work when connected to a USB port, but drive performance will be limited to USB 1.1 transfer rates.

Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable: Connects USB devices to USB ports.