Hard drive full? Hik DS-7616NI-E2 8P

[pbc]

Curious, just installed another 2 cameras today (now up to 6 Hikvision DS-2CD2142FWD-IS). When I go into my NVR and look at the Storage, it is telling me there is 0 free space in my hard drive.

I do plan on getting another drive shortly but am currently using just one 3TB WD Purple with all cameras on continuous recording. Occurred to me that I don't recall how the NVR manages storage. I.e., does it simply continue to record and rewrites old items. How do I know how many days of storage it takes before filling up and rewriting (if it is rewriting!), etc?

Thanks.

 

[GCoco]

See if you are set to overwrite. Also once you fill up a hard drive you will always have no free space even when you overwrite.

 

[pbc]

Thanks, have it set to "read/write", assume that is all I need to do. It's obviously writing as I can see recent playback, was curious if there was anything else I needed to do though.

When I add a second hard drive, if I set it to r/w, does it simply expand the number of days being recorded, vs setting it to redundancy which I assume just duplicates the footage on the first harddrive?

 

[GCoco]

If you do not have redundancy set, you will double your days of recordings