LaCie Little Big Disk Health and Safety Precautions, General Use Precautions, User Manual, page

LaCie Little Disk • Design by Sam Hecht	Foreword
User Manual	page 3

Health and Safety

Precautions

✦✦ Only qualified persons are authorized to carry out maintenance on this device.

✦✦ Read this user manual carefully and fol- low the correct procedure when setting up the device.

✦✦ Do not open your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive 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 danger- ous emissions. Your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive contains no user-serviceable parts. If it appears to be malfunctioning, have it inspected by a qualified LaCie Technical Support representative.

✦✦ Never expose your device to rain, or use it near water, or in damp or wet conditions. Never place objects containing liquids on the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive, as they may spill into its openings. Doing so increases the risk of electrical shock, short-circuit- ing, fire or personal injury.

✦✦ Make sure that the computer and La- Cie Mobile Hard Drive are electrically grounded. If the devices are not ground- ed, there is an increased risk of electrical shock. Power requirements 100-240 V~,

1.5A, 60- 50 Hz, (Supply voltage fluctua- tions not exceeding ± 10% of the nomi- nal, transient over-voltages according to over-voltage category II).

General Use Precautions

✦✦ Do not expose the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive to temperatures outside the range of 5° C to 35° C (41° F to 95° F); or to op- erational humidity beyond 5-80%, non- condensing, or non-operating humidity beyond 10-90%, non-condensing. Doing so may damage the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive or disfigure its casing. Avoid plac- ing your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive near a source of heat or exposing it to sun- light (even through a window). Inversely, placing your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive in an environment that is too cold or humid may damage the unit.

✦✦ Always unplug the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive from the electrical outlet if there is a risk of lightning or if it will be unused for an extended period of time. Other-

wise, there is an increased risk of elec- trical shock, short-circuiting or fire.

✦✦ Use only the power supply shipped with the device.

✦✦ Do not use the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive near other electrical appliances such as televisions or radios. Doing so may cause interference which will adversely affect the operation of the other products.

✦✦ Do not place the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive near sources of magnetic interfer- ence, such as computer displays, televi- sions or speakers. Magnetic interference can affect the operation and stability of your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive.

✦✦ Do not place heavy objects on top of the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive or use ex- cessive force on it.

✦✦ Never use excessive force on your LaCie Mobile Hard Drive. If you detect a prob- lem, see the Troubleshooting section in this manual.

CAUTION: This LaCie Little Disk’s warranty may be void as a result of the failure to re- spect the precautions listed above.

IMPORTANT INFO: Any loss, corruption or destruction of data while using 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. To help prevent the loss of your data, LaCie highly rec- ommends that you keep TWO copies of your data; one copy on your external hard disk, for instance, and a second copy either on your in- ternal hard disk, another external hard disk or some other form of removable storage media. LaCie offers a complete line of CD and DVD drives. If you would like more information on backup, please refer to our website.

IMPORTANTINFO:1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on operating envi- ronment (typically 5-10% less).