I recently got a DS-2CD2135F-IS and set it up with a Windows share and everything seems to work nicely. I made my drive size less than 200 GB to avoid the issue that crops up with larger volumes. It's been running for a couple of weeks on my desk as a test, and my question is, what happens once that drive fills up? Does the camera start deleting old files? I don't see any settings and don't see any reference to it in the manual.
I have 2042's and a 2632. I had problems with the 2042's filling quota and not deleting old stuff. The camera, however, *is* supposed to overwrite the oldest files for the new stuff. It just didn't. I recently upgraded my firmware to 5.4 and had to reformat my NetHDDs so it will be a few weeks before I know for sure.
In your firmware, there is a setting for "overwrite". Mine is on "Storage -> Schedule Settings -> Record Schedule -> Advanced". I have a checkbox "Overwrite", which is checked on.
The implementation Hikvision uses for NetHDD, however, sucks (to put it simple). They seem to have a needlessly complex file structure with a series of index files. When it gets FUBAR, it really gets FUBAR.
Things would be so much easier if there were a way to simply cull old data based upon age. Even though I have 1TB allocated per camera, I really only need 2 weeks of data. Sure would be nice to have a way to simply tell the camera to automatically remove anything over a certain # of days old.
