Storage; Hard Disk (Hdd) Manager; Grouping - Q-See QC SERIES User Manual

4.4 STORAGE

This window helps you manage your NVR's internal hard drive(s).

HARD DISK (HDD) MANAGER

This window shows the status of your hard drives, including free space, and allows you to (re)format
them if needed.
• An installed and functioning hard drive will be represented by a line (-).
• A missing hard drive will be represented by an empty circle ( ).
• You can switch the status of a drive between Read/Write and Read Only if needed to preserve records.
If this is the only drive in the NVR, all recording will stop and you will receive Full Disk alerts, if you have
set those up in the Events window.
• It is better to lock important files in the Search and Playback window and to back them up as well.
• Click Apply to test your settings.
• Click OK before exiting this window to preserve your changes.
Format
Your NVR will automatically format newly installed hard drives. The Format button is used to reformat a
hard drive.
IMPORTANT! Reformatting the hard drive will erase ALL records, including
locked files!
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GROUPING

On systems with more than one internal hard drive, you can group multiple hard drives into a group that
will act as a larger, single hard drive and different types of recordings can be assigned to that group.
HDD
Short for Hard Disk Drive, this is the tab where you assign drives to a group.
Main Stream
• The Main Stream video is the larger data stream
used by the NVR and viewed when you play
back the video at the NVR.
• Use this tab to assign specific channels to the
desired disk group.
Sub Stream
• The Sub Stream video is the lower quality, lower
bandwidth video that is sent to your mobile
device.
• This tab works exactly the same as Main
Stream, above.
Snap Shots
• The still images captured by the Snapshot feature can be saved on a separate drive group, if you want.
• This tab works exactly the same as Main Stream, above.
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