Never did get the external drive to work. I ended up installing a 6TB internal drive and then ran into another problem-you're unable to review more than 30 days of recordings.
Ended up calling Lorex "tech" support, and yeah, not helpful at all. I'm going to do what you suggested and see if they are all right with reformatting the hard drive and going from there.
When I installed the 6 TB hard drive it formatted it-as far as I remember there are no options for...
OK, got the hard drive and mounted it on my PC (need Dahua Disk Manager to read it). Today is October 31st, and the oldest recording is September 30th. There must be a software limitation, because there is NO WAY that takes up 6 TB of storage.
Sorry for going off, I'm getting frazzled trying to figure this out, and I took it personally. My bad. I'm pretty sure that this is a limitation of the NVR at this point, but I'll try to pull the hard drive and see what's on it.
That's pretty much impossible. 8 cameras recording with a bitrate of 768 should use (very) roughly 60 GB per 24 hours. That gives me almost 100 days of recording (without accounting for filesystem overhead), so the 89 days estimate it gives me is correct.
How does no one find it odd that it...
If you're being sarcastic, I'm not amused.
If you're not, sorry, reading @Flintstone61 comments first thing this morning put me in a sour mood.
Bit rate is at 768 (lowered it to 500 this morning to see if that makes a difference). Storage estimator now says 100 days instead of 89. So why...