No Re/Write on Series M? - using WD Purple HDDs

[John A]

Good morning all,

I've been trying to work out why my Drives just fill and not R/W or Overwrite once all are filled. I think the settings on the Series M are correct?
I had to reformat in the middle of the night to stop the bleeping so the photo shows free space.
Am I missing something or maybe the disks are missing a jumper>?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks
John

 

[John A]

Good morning all,

I've been trying to work out why my Drives just fill and not R/W or Overwrite once all are filled. I think the settings on the Series M are correct?
I had to reformat in the middle of the night to stop the bleeping so the photo shows free space.
Am I missing something or maybe the disks are missing a jumper>?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks
John

I think it's a HD problem, I have 4 WD purple 6TB. They were already used drives and I'm seeing errors on two - Any suggestions on the latest and greatest?

 

[Kyle]

Hi @John A

You'll need to set the "Keep Videos/Pictures for" field in your Advanced Recording Schedule settings to "0" for the NVR to overwrite the oldest footage when the hard drives fill up:

It's worth running the S.M.A.R.T and Bad Sector Detection hard drive tests in Storage>Schedule Settings>Advanced in a web browser to verify if these are the problem.

We still recommend the WD Purple and Toshiba S300 Surveillance drives:

Hard Drives | Western Digital Purple Hard Drives from a UK supplier

Hard drives purpose built to cope with the specific demands of CCTV security systems. Available to purchase from www.use-ip.co.uk.

www.use-ip.co.uk

The Seagate Skyhawk drives are also very popular

 

[John A]

Thank you for this info Kyle, running through some tests this week end. Best regards