Add A Hard Disk Drive - Panasonic WJ-HD616/1000 Installation Manual

Add a hard disk drive

Hard disk drives will be locally procured.
When adding an HDD unit, proceed as follows.
It is possible to add an HDD unit without stopping operation.
When a hard disk drive is
not formatted
Start auto format
The hard disk drive is installed as a record-
able disk.
The hard disk drives can be installed/removed from the HDD slots covered by the front cover.
Contact your dealer for purchasing, installing, and replacing the hard disk drives.
Important:
• Hard disk drives are precise devices. Handle with care while keeping the following in mind.
• Do not subject the hard disk drive to any vibration or impact.
• Before touching the hard disk drive, eliminate static electricity by touching a steel locker, etc. When holding the hard disk
drive, hold the both sides of the hard disk drive.
• Do not touch the circuit board or the connectors to prevent the hard disk drive from damaging by static electricity.
• Contact your dealer for hard disk drives that works on the recorder. Please be forewarned that operation with any hard disk
drive other than the specified models is not guaranteed under any circumstances.
• When using multiple hard disk drives, use the same model.
If different models are used together, even when the capacities of them are the same, the available capacity may be a few
percent smaller.
• Install the hard disk drives one by one in order starting from HDD1.
(The leftmost slot of the HDD slots is HDD1 and the rightmost one is HDD4.)
• Once the operation has started in the RAID 5 or RAID 6 mode, do not change the positions of the HDD units. If they are
changed, it may become impossible to read recorded data.
Install an HDD unit in the recorder
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Hard disk drive auto recognition
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The hard disk drive is installed as a playback-
Add a hard disk drive to the system.
The hard disk drive is installed as a recordable
When a hard disk drive is
formatted
only disk.
When recording on the newly
installed hard disk drive
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