Operating instructions
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Motion – record mode (No, Video or Audio/Video) when motion is detected for certain camera.
Press +/- buttons to change the value.
Normal – normal record mode, including No, V (Video only) or A/V (Audio/Video). Press +/-
buttons to change the value.
6.6 HDD Setup
In Setup Menu display, press ▲▼ to change the highlighted option to HDD and then press ENTER
to call up HDD Setup as shown.
In the surveillance applications, alarm video/audio is much more important than normal video/audio.
So, this digital video/audio recorder is designed to allow the user to divide each HDD into alarm
partition and normal partition. Alarm video/audio will be recorded in alarm partition, normal
video/audio in normal partition.
The HDD Setup allows the administrator to format/clear each HDD, set Alarm Record size and
Normal Record size of each HDD and define the behaviors for Alarm Record and Normal Record if
it reaches the end of the last HDD in the system.
The general operations are as below:
▲▼◄►
Press these buttons to select the items.
MODE => Format/Clear
Press this button to format/clear the HDDs as described in Section 6.6.1.
ESC
Press this button to escape from this screen and return to Setup Menu display. If the Save dialog
is shown, press ENTER to exit and save, ESC to exit without saving.
Following is a brief description for each item and its specific operations:
Size (GB) – the total HDD storage in GB (Giga-Byte) for Alarm Record and Normal Record
respectively. This item is just for information. Please refer to Section 6.6.1 for more detailed
information and setup of each individual HDD.