Toshiba Surveillix ESV16, User Manual

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ESV16 User’s Manual 185
Disk
Go to the Internal page and select a desired Disk action from the
drop-down menu.
Once you install a new hard disk to the recorder, it will be listed in this
page and shown status "offline. You would need to initialize it so that it
can be ready for recording. You can obtain basic information about the
disk you installed in this page.
To initialize it, simply click the “Format” button.
*This page will list the Internal disks (or RAID volumes), and the E-
SATA disk only. The HDD will be formatted in EXT3 file system.
*The USB HDDs will only be listed in the "USB Backup" page. The USB
HDDs have to be formatted in advance in FAT16/FAT32 or EXT3 file
system. (FAT32 is recommended)
* The internal disks that are formatted in EXT3 or FAT32 elsewhere
will be listed in this page and shown as "Online" after they are installed
to the NVR. It's highly recommended that it's formatted by the NVR,
which will be formatted to EXT3 file system to ensure best
performance. FAT32 can be used but will result in a performance
slowdown.
* HDDs formatted in file systems other than EXT2/3, or FAT32 will not
be listed, and therefore cannot be used.