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13.4 CHECKING HDD STATUS
You may check the status of any of the installed HDDs on your DVR at anytime.
To check the status of a HDD:
1. Enter the HDD Management menu by clicking Menu > HDD.
2. The status of your HDD is listed under the Status column. If the status is listed as Normal or Hibernate, the
HDD is in working order. If it is listed as Abnormal and has already been initialized, the HDD needs to be
replaced. If the HDD is Uninitialized, you will need to initialize it before it can be use in your DVR. Please
refer to Initializing HDDs for further instructions.
You may also view the SMART information of installed HDDs. SMART, short for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology is a monitoring system for hard disk drives to detect and report on various indicators of reliability in the hopes of
anticipating failures.
To view SMART information of a HDD:
1. Enter the Log Search menu, shown in Figure 4 by clicking Menu > Maintenance > Log.
Figure 4. Log Search Menu
2. Set Major Type to Information.
3. Set Minor Type to HDD SMART.
4. Enter Start Time and End Time.
5. Click the Search button to begin log search. A result list, similar to that of Figure 5 will be returned.
Figure 5. Log Search Results