which is the recommended hard drive to the NVR ?
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You can use any SATA drive, I think. I would recommend a drive intended for continuous use, such as a NAS drive. I picked a WD Red, 4TB,
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Yes, it definitely matters. CIB sent me a list of comapatible SATA HDDs. They are ALL 7200 RPM. I bought the Western Digital WD10EADS, 1 teraByte drive. This will hold about 1 month of video from four 700TVL cameras at 60IPS. You may have to format the hard drive before installation. The electronic store where you buy the HDD can help you with that. Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi also make 7200 RPM compatible HDD. Don't be shy about contacting CIB Customer Service at 408-736-3070. They have been most helpful to me on other things, like setting up internet access.
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According to product instruction: "It is possible to expand the available storage using an external hard drive. The hard disk must either be formatted with NTFS or FAT 16/32. Connect the hard drive through the USB port, and the DVR will automatically recognize it. To set the DVR to record onto the external hard drive , access the menu. Under REC tab, select REC device and choose USB....." Seems to me you can do what you seek.
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Yes, it will default cover the old files after the hard drive is full, but you can change the setting from the NVR, thanks.
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what kind the dvr should i use. do i need the hard drive to recorder or internet to do the recorder. thanks.
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Assuming you are looking for a desktop hard drive, you should be able to use any Serial-ATA drive that will fit in a 3.5" bay compartment. Right now, the "sweet spot" for getting the most bang for the buck is a 2TB drive - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1403804113&sr=1-7
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Any internal SATA drive will work fine. DVD or BLU-RAY. If you are using multiple drives, it's best to get the same brand and model for best results.
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It does not need an external hard drive... but it does need an internal drive... it a great DVR. Google search the Sunluxy and find the specs for the particular hard drive required.
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day.
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I'm honestly not sure. My son ordered it and we ended up returning it because it turns out it wasn't what we needed. I don't think I even touched the hard drive. Sorry.
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I have been asking that same question for the past three months or so. what I came up with is the following : 1- you can buy a NVR from QNAP at qnapsecurity.com depending on what specs you need you will find lots of different products. I personal liked the specs of the VS-4112 Pro+ compared to its price. 2- most recently TrendNet themselves released a NVR system TV-NVR104K (supports only 4 channels) that i am waiting for it to reach the market. Id rather buy a product that should most certainly be compatible with my camera compared to other vendors. This is just my conclusion after three months of research, and by the way I did not have the chance to test either of the above mention devices.
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There is plenty of room for normal Backups using Blue rays. Also the restore from Blue ray is also dependable. Normally I use a large removable Hard drive for this process because I can Back up and restore whole drives or clone them. I hope this helps.
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You can add an external hard drive if you have a compatible receiver which will give you DVR capabilities. I don't think you can use a DVR.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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http://www.synology.com/support/hd.php#94Here is a list of the recommended hard drives. I went by price, but any of them should work well for you. Doug
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You can buy a blank hard drive like I did. Then put in the new drive I put in a Seagate 7200 rpm 2 gig SATA drive. If you go on YouTube you can see the 4 clips that you need to move to take the top off and disconnect the old drive install the new drive close the DVR and hook it up power it on and the unit will configure the new drive and you are all done very simple.
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I bought these: Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420ASThey're fast and work great so far after daily abuse with external Final Cut Pro, Aperture, Photoshop, and iTunes libraries. Connected via Thunderbolt it seems just as fast as an internal drive. At the time, earlier in 2013, these were the biggest, fastest drives available. There are bigger drives now with larger caches.