Forced HDD Failure? - Burglary

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sho_presni

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Oct 16, 2024
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I have a Swann NVR and I was having HDD failures with no real explanation from Swann, other than the outlet being used - power issue.
I had it plugged directly to UPS, and I have since moved to it to a power strip which is plugged into the UPS. Since I did this, I have not had an HDD issue (+/- 2 months).
Last month we had a break in, motion sensors activated our alarm (no one in the house).
At almost the exact minute the motion sensors tripped, I got an HDD failure, which feels very odd.
Is it possible for someone to force an HDD failure on NVR?
Thanks in advance.
 
Anything is possible if the NVR is wifi or your network was compromised.

Or it could just coincidence of failure with consumer grade stuff and the system getting taxed at once.
 
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wittaj said:
Anything is possible if the NVR is wifi or your network was compromised.

Or it could just coincidence of failure with consumer grade stuff and the system getting taxed at once.
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NVR is on the network, where the network does have wifi. I have triggered the alarm and does not seem to impact the NVR by itself. Coincidence or other....
 
I would look at your Power supply, If the HDD has some issues on an event and there could be many factors going on at the time of the event that your HDD had an issue. 1, Motion event. Camera encoding and recording to the HDD.. If there is an issue with power supply you can have issues with HDD.. 2, HDD starting to fail. Gets to area of data that system starts to suffer.. Then you have an event and could be a double wammy have both HDD starting to fail and power supply issue and that could be really hard on the system. If your NVR is POE, That has a Brick for power the NVR requires 12v and about 1.24 to 2amps of current. So when power supply starts to fail the NVR can stay powered but any Connected POE Cameras can suffer. Then as an event happens even if not on the POE side of the NVR that 12v it needs drops down to something lower when the HDD starts to get taxed..

Anyway.. How old is the HDD? How old is your machine? My guess is power supply issue. If HDD isn't to old and if HDD is quality like a WD Purple.. Anyother HDD can't speak for them mine last about 4.5 to 5 years.

Testing with a multi meter will not help. With no load it can show 48v without a problem. Would need to test on board level with a scope..
 
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