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    Western Digital 'thumper' disks - PWL

    Recently switched to a 14TB WD white label (black/red?) drive for NVR storage in PC case, first time experiencing the thumping style drives. It appears the noise is the result of Premature Wear Levelling (PWL) which WD have seen fit to add on these units. Nice not to have the usual higher...
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    Internal SSDs Files not being moved - What am i missing?

    I've been using Blueiris for 10 years and just in the past month I've run into a strange issue where files are not moving down the drive cascade correctly. This causes me to manually move files in order to ensure that the New doesn't fill up which would then fail to create new recordings, I...
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    Hikvision DS 7732 NI-SP - Upgrading Hard Disk

    Our NVR has two hard disks, 1 x 2TB and 1 x 4TB. I'd like to replace the 2TB with a second 4TB but don't want to lose the data that's on it. If I move the 2TB disk to an external eSata drive enclosure will the recordings on it still be accessible? Or is there a better way to do this? Thanks in...
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    Migrated to new box, now clips dont record.

    Hi, I recently migrated an existing license to a new PC, the old box died. I was able to import the configuration, it all came up quickly, everything I working except for actual recording. To be more specific, the clip recording is working very sporadically with no pattern I can discern...
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    Dahua NVR rewrites WAY before the disk is full

    Hello, I have a Dahua NVR 36 channel with 23 cams and 2 x 4TR hard drives and from some time now the NVR records only 2 days and rewrites. I can see that the first hard drive is not close to full and the second is completely empty. The integrated disk check in the NVR says that's nothing wrong...
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    Clips on Disk but not on Calendar

    Hi guys, For some reason, clips older than a week are no longer showing up in the calendar. When selecting a date that should be there, it returns 'Empty list.' The clips are stored in the Stored folder, and there is 1.5TB free. I ran Repair/Regenerate and run maintenance on the database, but...
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    Specifiing disk quotas on HIKVISION DS-7204/7208/16HQHI-F1/N/A does nothing

    I have setup disk quotas on HIKVISION DS-7204/7208/16HQHI-F1/N/A DVR on IP Camera channel as follows: (Edited picture to illustrate the problem) No matter if I do it before or after formatting the disk, the quota is being ignored and recordings have the size of 10 GB and growing. Is this an...