Lorex NVR hard drive size limit

[hunternm]

I am wondering if anyone has experience with Lorex NR900 series NVR. It is part of a 4K varifocal camera kit.

4K Ultra HD 16 Channel Security NVR, 3TB Hard Drive, POE, Records 4K (4 x 1080p) at 30FPS, with Audio Recording

A 4K (8 megapixel) NVR with 8 channels, 2 terabyte surveillance hard drive and Lorex Cloud remote connectivity.

www.lorextechnology.com

It has two bays and I tried to find out the single hard drive size limit and total limit but got different results from Lorex website.

In the Q&A section it mentioned the hard drive size limit is 2x6TB. However, in a Lorex table it says 2x8TB. I am wondering if anyone has experience on putting additional hard drives in this NVR. The limit is 2x6TB or 2X8TB? or is it even greater than that?

Thanks,

 

[mat200]

I am wondering if anyone has experience with Lorex NR900 series NVR. It is part of a 4K varifocal camera kit.

4K Ultra HD 16 Channel Security NVR, 3TB Hard Drive, POE, Records 4K (4 x 1080p) at 30FPS, with Audio Recording

A 4K (8 megapixel) NVR with 8 channels, 2 terabyte surveillance hard drive and Lorex Cloud remote connectivity.

www.lorextechnology.com

It has two bays and I tried to find out the single hard drive size limit and total limit but got different results from Lorex website.

In the Q&A section it mentioned the hard drive size limit is 2x6TB. However, in a Lorex table it says 2x8TB. I am wondering if anyone has experience on putting additional hard drives in this NVR. The limit is 2x6TB or 2X8TB? or is it even greater than that?

Thanks,

Hi @hunternm

I have seen people post that they were successful adding 8TB HDDs into many of the nicer Lorex ( Dahua OEM ) NVRs. So imho it is worth testing out.

 

[fergenheimer]

Hi @hunternm , I have an Amcrest NVR, again Dahua OEM. It says 6TB maximum and would not recognize an 8TB external drive. I did not pursue work arounds but if that is all you have, partitioning it into a 6TB and 2TB might work. Since they use a Linux system. There is no reason you could not use higher. I guess they only recognize hda1 and hdb1 but have not tried to get around the limit.

 

[mat200]

Hi @hunternm , I have an Amcrest NVR, again Dahua OEM. It says 6TB maximum and would not recognize an 8TB external drive. I did not pursue work arounds but if that is all you have, partitioning it into a 6TB and 2TB might work. Since they use a Linux system. There is no reason you could not use higher. I guess they only recognize hda1 and hdb1 but have not tried to get around the limit.

Hi @fergenheimer

I believe the model you have would be equivalent to the Dahua OEM NVR4xxx series, and the on in the OP NVR5xxx

Thus I don't think the same applies for that model.

 

[fergenheimer]

You're right @mat200 Mine is an NVR4108. The spec at Lorex website shows 2x8TB which seems limited to me even in an embedded system.

 

[hunternm]

I just noticed another interesting thing, On the sticker on the NVR it say model NR9163-N ( or NR916-N i can not remember exactly), If i log into the web UI it says device model LNR616. Quite confusing.

Anyway, I think 8T hard drive should work fine with this NVR, It will be just even better if it supports 10T or 12T.

 

[hunternm]

Hi @hunternm

I have seen people post that they were successful adding 8TB HDDs into many of the nicer Lorex ( Dahua OEM ) NVRs. So imho it is worth testing out.

Thanks for confirming