Technical Manual

5.1 SYSTEM INFORMATION

Get information on the status and health of your hard drive(s) as well as the data load on your system

and network connection.

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HARD DISK DRIVE

This window shows all of the drives installed in your DVR along with the drive status (Read/Write or

Read Only), the size of the drive and how much free space is available. It also shows whether the drive is

operating normally.

S.M.A.R.T. Info

Clicking on the hard disk icon to the far right of a

drive’s name in the S.M.A.R.T column will show

more detailed information about that drive.

•S.M.A.R.T.standsforSelf-Monitoring,Analysis

and Reporting Technology

•Thedatashownherecanhelpyouanticipatea

drive failure, or identify the cause of one.

•Today’sharddrivesaremuchmorereliablethan

those in the past. Q-See uses A/V rated hard

drives that can meet the demands of constant

video recording and playback.

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