Format the hard disk drives [Format]

Hard disk drives will be formatted, and one of the normal recording area, event recording area or pre-event recording area will be assigned to each drive. It is necessary to format a hard disk drive on either of the following conditions.

When an hard disk drive installed in the recorder is removed or added

When an optional extension unit is connected and used for the first time

Important:

When the hard disk drive is formatted, all the recorded images will be deleted.

In the single mode, the capacity of each hard disk drive is configured and formatted. In the RAID 5/RAID 6 mode, the capaci- ty of each hard disk drive is configured and formatted by the unit.

Hard disk drives that have already been installed or unformatted drives that are newly installed will automatically be formatted as the normal recording area when they are recognized.

It is impossible to assign two or more recording areas to a hard disk drive.

Step 1

Select the [Format] button on the disk configuration page.

The [Format] tab will be displayed.

Step 2

Select the recording area to be assigned to each hard disk drive (to each unit in the RAID 5/RAID 6 mode).

Normal: Assigned to the normal recording area

Event: Assigned to the event recording area

–:Not formatted

Step 3

Select the [Format] button after setting the recording areas for the hard disk drives.

The confirmation window will be displayed.

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