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13.3 SETTING HDD STATUS
You may change the behavior of your HDD by changing its status. The status of a HDD can be set to redundancy, read-only or
read/write (R/W).
13.3.1 SETTING HDD TO READ-ONLY
A HDD can be set to read-only to avoid important recorded files from being overwritten when the HDD becomes full.
To set a HDD to read-only:
1. Enter the HDD Management menu by clicking Menu > HDD.
2. Select HDD to protect.
3. Select the Property button to enter the Property Settings menu, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. HDD Property Settings Menu
4. Set HDD Status to Read-Only.
5. Select OK to save and exit menu.
Note: Once set to read-only, the HDD cannot be written to until it is set back to read/write (R/W). If the HDD that is
currently being written to is set to read-only, the data will be recorded to the next HDD. If there is only one HDD present,
setting it to read-only will cause the DVR to not record.
13.3.2 SETTING HDD TO REDUNDANCY
In order to use HDD redundancy on your DVR, you will need to have at least two disk installed. Setting up HDD redundancy will
allow your DVR to redundantly record a copy of the videos onto multiple drives as a safeguard against losing all your files in case of
disk failures.
To setup HDD redundancy:
1. Enter the HDD Management menu by clicking Menu > HDD.
2. Select HDD to setup redundancy on.
3. Select the Property button to enter the Property Settings menu, as shown in Figure 3.
4. Set HDD Status to Redundancy.
5. Select OK to save and exit menu.
Note: The HDD that is set to redundancy is used to store an extra copy of the recording. If a HDD is set to redundancy,
at least one HDD should be set to the R/W status.