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CONFIGURING DISK USAGE
To decide which disk drives MasterControl can record to, go to the Setup page and
click the Disk tab (see Figure 14). By default, MasterControl records to all hard
drives in the DVXi system—except for the system drive. On the Disk tab, each
disk drive is represented by a blue bar that indicates how much of the disk is full.
MasterControl saves a one-minute segment of data to the first available drive, then
the next, then the next, and then back to the first drive after all disks have received
a segment of data.
You can choose which disk drives MasterControl saves data to by selecting or
deselecting it from the Enable Drive box. Only selected drives are indicated in the
bar graph.
MasterControl runs in circular record mode, in which it saves video to disks up to
a capacity specified by the user, and then it begins writing over the oldest video on
the disk. To adjust how much of the disks can be filled before old video is elimi-
nated, adjust the Disk Threshold slider bar on the Disk tab.
Below the chart is a table that indicates how much free space is on the enabled
drives and the average amount of space filled on all disks. In Figure 14, only the E:
drive is selected. This drive has 58500MB of available space; 92 percent of the
drive is full.
See the “Viewing Disk Usage” section of the “MasterControl Operation” chapter
for more information about purging video and other functions performed on the
Disk tab.
Figure 14
The Disk tab
allows you to
configure which
disks MasterControl
saves video to.
