Question on LaCie 1TB drive selection

I thought I was being smart by buying a USB 2.0 version of the 1 TB drive. $70 off the shelf instead or more expensive ones that also support Friewire or USB 3.0 (Macs do not do 3.0, as I understand).
But the drive comes with only an "Install LaCie" partition, which must be executed (according to the "Quick Install Guide") to setup for GUID.
Then the install app says it needs to install Rosetta. This is my first Mac-anything, so I have no PPC apps to be supported, and Lion drops Rosetta support so Rosetta seems pointless.
So ... my questions ...
Do I use DU to manually give the entire disk to GUID, under the assumption that the install application does this anyway?
Do I return the drive under the assumption it needs ITS install application and Rosetta-anything is only on the vintage 2008 design because of PPC prevalance back then? With Lion (eventually I will go, I guess, but only when it stabilizes) Rosetta is an anchor I do NOT need.

Too late.
Tried to 3-partiion-map under Apple Partition Map un case the drive had to be installed.
Killed the LaCie partition anyway.
Reformatted as GUID, one partition using all 1 TB (due to archiving files extending beyond the original 500 GB).
Cloning now. CCC seems happy with the drive.

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I've got a LaCie 1TB drive that I've had now for about 4 years… It's got a little space left on it ~36GB. I can copy files off of it fine but I can't copy files to it, nothing. Not even a single .jpg file without getting the following message
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Here are a few things I think I might have to do but just can't…
1: Buy a new 1TB drive and transfer everything then erase and copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
2: Back up 1TB to DVD-R erase then copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
3: Erase the drive and try to recover the deleted data. (Too risky as the data is needed)
4: Erase the drive and start over. (Unbelievable but…)
5: The drive is 4 years old and should die this year, retire it. (???)
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desioner wrote:
Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup.
I don't know if there's any particular "life expectancy" difference for RAID 0, but I do know that for every drive you add, you're that much more likely to lose all your data.
I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Right, because it puts little parts of the files on each drive. RAID 0 is all about speed (and living dangerously). When I was using a lot of RAID 0 drives, I only put stuff on them that I felt I could lose. And sometimes I did lose it.
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I was wondering if anyone here could advise me on a most dissapointing occurence...
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Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks very much
Take care
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Problem solved - I had deleted all the necessary preference files. I did not reinstall Quicktime, thanks for the suggestions, though. I called Apple Care. A very helpful person on the other end of the phone directed me to trash the preferences (again). No luck. He asked me to create a new user, which I had not done, the problem was still there. The fix was a reinstall of FCE HD. All's good now. Thanks, Apple Care!
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Hello,
I have two 1Tb drives in my Mini, the first is full and the second one empty. (I've been using the 2nd for Time Machine but the full source from dirve 1 soon has Time Machine complaining.) I am contemplating whether to form one 2Tb logical drive from the two 1Tb drives or segregate their use, i.e. use the first 1Tb drive to hold the system and applications while moving the /users directory tree to the second 1Tb drive?
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impact apps which might otherwise expect to see particulat fies and directories in specific user related locations on the system drive;
hinder backing up (by having to setup two separate Time Machine activities)?
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Thanks and sorry Allan,
The supplementary questions would arise should I NOT chose to combine the separate drives into a larger logical one but to keep one of the two drives for system/apps and the other for users data... I assumed that segregating drive usagel like this might reult in issues with apps which might expect to see some user directories/files on the same drive as the system/apps. similarly, with two physical drives, I'd be looking to managing separate Time Mchines. (I have a few 2Tb pocket drives for backups.)
Final question - if I do combine into a single logical drive (for system, apps, /users ... the whole lot), would I have any problem getting this logical one working from a Time Machine backup? I ask that this backup was taken from the 1Tb physical drive and now I'd be looking to put it back onto a 2Tb logicl drive.
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