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The HDD Menu
General
You can initialize the hard drive(s) in the DVR. Don’t initialize a drive that already has
data on it, as the initialization process will erase any information on the drive. You
also have the option of adding up to eight Network-attached storage (NAS) drives or
one IP based storage area network (IP SAN) disk that you can record to.
Option
Description
Add
Set up and configure details for your NAS drive / IP SAN.
Init
If you install a new hard drive in the DVR, it must be
initialized
before it can be used.
How to add a NAS device or IP SAN?
1. Click
Add
.
2. In the
Type
list, select the type of network storage: NAS or IP SAN
3. Configure the NAS or IP SAN settings.
For NAS:
a. In the
NetHDD IP Address
field, enter the IP address.
b. Click
Search
to search for available NAS drives based on the IP entered.
c. Select the NAS drive from the list of NAS drives found. For example,
d. Click
OK
to finish adding the configured NAS drive.
The HDD Menu
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