User`s manual
Hard disk installation
This unit is delivered without the hard disk by default. Please contact our local agent or regional
representative, so they provide qualified service personnel to install hard disk to suit for your storage
and video image retention requirement. The unit is not operational before installation of hard disk. The
maximum number of IDE hard disks, which can be installed in this unit is four. The size and number of
hard disks to be installed is to be determined by the video image quality and the online video retention
period requirement, please kindly refer to the storage calculation table below to determine the total size
of hard disks to be installed.
************Storage Table(720X480)
Standard High 1 High 2
Frame Rate
(Frame/Sec)
240GB 480GB 240GB 480GB 240GB 480GB
25 220hr 440hr 117.9hr 235.8hr 78.5hr 157hr
12.5 440hr 880hr 235.8hr 471.6hr 157hr 314hr
8.3 660hr 1,320hr 353.7hr 707.4hr 235.5hr 471hr
5 1,100hr 5,500hr 589.5hr 1,179hr 392.5hr 785hr
2.5 2,200hr 6,600hr 1,179hr 2,358hr 785hr 1,570hr
1 5,500hr 11,000hr 2,948hr 5,895hr 1,963hr 3,926hr
Installation Procedure :
1、 Unplug the unit from any power source. Once after the unit is connected to power supply
source, some part of this unit is already carrying high voltage, even without turning on the unit by
pressing the “Power” button on remote control and front panel. It is strongly recommended to
completely unplug the unit from power supply source, before opening up the unit for any kind of
servicing.
2、 Open the top of the unit case by undoing the screws. Identify the two hard disk holder (as
indicated in the figure above). Each hard disk holder can hold two IDE Hard Disks.
3、 Install the hard disk(s) on the hard disk rack, and use the screws (provided with this unit as
installation accessories) to fix the hard disk onto the rack securely.
4、Connect the IDE hard disk(s) onto the ribbon cable. If one IDE bus contain more than one hard
disk, then one should be set up as Master and the other as Slave, by setting the jumper on hard disks
respectively (please refer to the installation instruction of the IDE hard disk).
5、Connect the IDE ribbon cable to one of the IDE slot on the main board on the other end.
6、Connect the internal DC supply cable onto each hard disk.
7、Make sure there is no strained ribbon cable and DC supply cable inside, and then close the
casing top. Fasten the casing screws.。
8、Format the IDE hard disk according to the procedure as stated under “Hard Disk formatting”
section of this manual.
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