Instruction Manual

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MENU FUNCTIONS
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MENU FUNCTIONS
Typically, there will be one entry here, and
it will be the hard drive that came with the
DVR - you’ll get many years of usage out of
the included hard drive.
The drive connected to the internal SATA
port will be listed here. A drive connected
via eSATA will appear on this list, and be
useable in the same manner as an internal
HDD.
External drives connected via USB will
not appear on this list, and can’t be used to
record footage - USB lacks the bandwidth
to write multiple streams simultaneously.
External USB drives can only be used for
backing up footage.
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - gotta love a good acronym) is your hard drive’s way of telling
the DVR how it’s going.
Status: The current condition of the hard drive. It should say “Good”. If it says anything else, this indicates there’s a problem with
your hard drive.
If there’s no problem, there’s little else to do here, unless reading the output of the dozens of self-tests the hard drive performs
on itself is of interest to you.
If you have been confronted with a HDD Error, or the Status entry doesn’t read “Good” then you can use the S.M.A.R.T.
information to attempt to diagnose the problem. The information presented in the S.M.A.R.T. report is practically identical to
what you’d see on a desktop PC while using Administrator Tools, or a similar service.
Device: HDD
Device: S.M.A.R.T.