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Important: The installed hard disk drives have to be initialised before the device can
be used for recording. All data will be deleted from the hard disk drive during
initialisation.
Important: If only one hard disk drive is installed and this is set to "Read-only", the
device cannot be used for recording.
Number of hard disk drives installed / NAS drives added
Shows the storage space in GB
Shows the current status of the hard disk drives:
• Not initialised
• Normal
• Error
• Standby
Shows the access status of the hard disk drive:
• Read-only: write protection
• R/W: read and write
Shows the type of connection for the hard disk drive:
• Local: device hard disk drive
• NAS: Network hard disk drive (NHDD)
• IP SAN: iSCSI volume
Shows the free storage space
Shows which group the hard disk drive has been assigned to
You can change the group assignment and access status here
• HDD No.: Internal numbering system for the hard disk drives
• R/W: In this mode, video data is written onto the hard disk
drives and can also be read (default setting)
• Read-only: In this mode, no video data is written onto the
data storage device. This setting is useful if you want to stop
data from being overwritten after an event.
• Redundancy: In this mode, video data will be redundantly
stored on all data storage devices with the "Redundancy"
setting. For this purpose, the “Redundancy” button in the
“Recording → Parameter → More Settings” menu must be
pressed.
• Group: For allocating the hard disk drive to an HDD group
Enable/disable hard disk drive