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Channels Setting
Click the button named with “Channels Settings” at the top right corner of the Figure 5-100,
system will pop up an interface shown as in Figure 5-103.
You can set HDDs for main stream, extra stream and snap pictures respectively. The main stream
and extra stream of one channel can be saved to different groups.
Channel: It is to display the actual channel number of current NVR.
HDD Group: It is the SN of the HDD group management. For example, if you set two HDD groups
such as Group 1 and Group 2, you can see there are two options (1/2) of the HDD group
dropdown list.
Important
 Please make sure you have set HDD group for each channel, otherwise you can not save
current setup!
 Once you change the HDD Group settings, system will pack the records and then reboot!
Tips
There is an easy way for you to test whether the records from the corresponding channel is saved
in the specified HDD. You can remove the HDD and then check the channel can record or not.
You can see the channel does not record and you can not search the previous record now.
Figure 5-103
5.11.4 eSATA
For the HDD group setup operation, please note:
 Each channel’s records can be stored into the specified HDD Group.
 Each HDD Group is corresponding to several hard disks, while one hard disk is only
included in one HDD Group.
 Each channel is only corresponding with one HDD Group, while one HDD Group can
store records from several channels.
 HDD Group is only available for read-write HDD and self-defined disks, other types of
hard disks cannot be set as HDD Group.
Important:
 eSATA also supports this function, you can manage e-SATA hard disk as local hard disk.
 Current series software version can only set the HDD group operation of the read-write HDDs.
It is not for the redundancy HDD.