How to rename two external hdd's, that are exactly the same brand and model, in order to distinguish?

Hello again.
First of all excuse me if I mistype anything or fail to use some terms correctly. English is not my mother tongue and I am kind of new to MacBooks.
Here's my problem.
I've got a macbook pro (yosemite 10.10.1, retina, 15", late 2013, 8gb memory, 250gb ssd), and I am using an external hard drive which I found to be quite good for what I wanted (in case it matters it's the lacie porsche design 2TB USB3).
I wanted one more external hard drive, and since I was satisfied with the one I had bought before, I decided to go for that one again.
Now the thing is that, when I go to finder I see 2 disks with the same name (and their "share" partitions) and I don't know which is which.
I'll try to post a screenshot that might clear things out.
What I would like to do would be to somehow rename the second disk so it appears in the finder as (for example) Lacie1 and Lacie Share1.
Apparently, the system kinda thinks in a similar way as I do.
As you can see below, it has done exactly what I want to do in Lacie's manager (or however it's called), but that does not appear in finder.
(some words are in Greek, but you'll get the point)
So, is there any way I can do something that will make the disks appear like that in finder so I can differentiate among them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Connect the external HDD to the MBP. Click in the title below the icon two times. It should then allow you to change the name.
See this example:
Ciao.

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