Swann H.264 manual Device: HDD, Device: S.M.A.R.T, English, Advanced Configuration

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Device: HDD

Typically, there will be one entry here, and it will be the hard drive that came with the DVR (if one was included) - you’ll get many years of usage out of the included hard drive.

The drive connected to the internal SATA port will be listed here. A drive connected via eSATA will appear on this list, and be useable in the same manner as an internal HDD.

External drives connected via USB will not appear on this list, and can’t be used to record footage - USB lacks the bandwidth to write multiple streams simultaneously. External USB drives can only be used for backing up footage.

Device: S.M.A.R.T.

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - gotta love a good acronym) is your hard drive’s way of telling the DVR how it’s going.

Status: The current condition of the hard drive. It should say “Good”. If it says anything else, this indicates there’s a problem with your hard drive.

If there’s no problem, there’s little else to do here, unless reading the output of the dozens of self-tests the hard drive performs on itself is of interest to you.

If you have been confronted with a HDD Error, or the Status entry doesn’t read “Good” then you can use the S.M.A.R.T. information to attempt to diagnose the problem. The information presented in the S.M.A.R.T. report is practically identical to what you’d see on a desktop PC while using Administrator Tools, or a similar service.

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