4 / 8 Channel D1 Realtime H.264 DVR - Maplin Electronics

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Device: HDD
Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of
hard drives connected to the DVR.
Typically, there will be one entry here,
and it will probably be the hard drive
that came with the DVR. This is not a
problem, and you’ll probably get years
of usage out of the included hard drive.
Note that external drives connected
by either eSATA or USB will NOT be
displayed here.
Device: S.M.A.R.T.
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.
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