Storage settings are user selectable. If you are not using point of sale or alarm aspects you can turn those off. Or, leave them on since it does not seem to impact anything other than scheduling. The orange "holiday" line is a good example. Probably would work for a business that has a holiday schedule different than routine recordings. Generally, not so much for home use though. Scheduling gives the ability to select different storage actions for different hours of the day, or everything all the time. It will only do those actions during the timeframes set. Maybe a business would only want POS recordings during business hours, rather than 24/7. Or, alarm warnings after closing. Or, motion detection turned off in a lobby during business hours so that it does not create MD related events, using general recording for the business hours instead. This allows you to tweak the recording to your needs. During a playback, if you only check "general" it will not show recordings identified as "motion detection". There will be blank spots. Same for "MD", if you only check that, it will not show the general recording in-between. If you check "all" during playback, you should see a line with different color blocks on the bottom of the screen matching the type of recording. This ties back to the storage scheduling. Don't want motion detection in the backyard 8am-4pm because spouse runs an in-home day care? Turn that period off. It will record as a general recording without the MD detection blocks. Only want MD/IVS recordings to save storage space rather than 24/7 recording of a camera? Turn off "general", or give it a schedule. DO make sure that you have sufficient pre and post recording set up though if you do to cover time before and after the MD is sensed.
