Digital Video Recorder User Manual
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Chapter 13 HDD Management
13.1 Initializing HDDs
Purpose
A newly installed hard disk drive (HDD) must be initialized before it can be used with your DVR.
Step 1 Go to Menu > HDD > General.
Figure 13-1 HDD Information Interface
You can view the Total Capacity, Free Space and Remaining Recording Time of the HDD. The
algorithm of the Remaining Recording Time is to use average bit rate for the channel
enabling smart encoding to raise accuracy.
Step 2 Select HDD to be initialized.
Step 3 Click the Init button.
Figure 13-2 Confirm Initialization
Step 4 Select the OK button to start initialization.