Recording to network PC

[Nicholas White]

I have two Hikvision DS-2CD2032F-I cameras (US Versions) recording to 64 Gig micro SD cards inside the cameras. I have a Windows 7 PC on the same network subnet that is used as a TV server (Windows Media Center). Can I make a partitiion on one of the two hard drives and record there? The storage settings only show "NAS." Thanks!

 

[alastairstevenson]

Can I make a partitiion on one of the two hard drives and record there?

Yes, you can.
You will see in the dropdown for Mounting Type there are 2 choices - NFS (usually a NAS box or Linux device) and SMB/CIFS (Usually a Windows box or NAS box).
So you can create a shareable volume for the camera to use under Windows with the SMB/CIFS choice.

But there is a caveat - depending on the camera firmware version there is a maximum volume size (not free space) that the camera will 'format'.
For the 5.2.5 firmware that ceiling is around 200GB.
I believe it's higher on newer firmware - but I'm not sure where it changes and by how much.
Hopefully others who have done this may comment.

 

[Nicholas White]

Yes, you can.
You will see in the dropdown for Mounting Type there are 2 choices - NFS (usually a NAS box or Linux device) and SMB/CIFS (Usually a Windows box or NAS box).
So you can create a shareable volume for the camera to use under Windows with the SMB/CIFS choice.

But there is a caveat - depending on the camera firmware version there is a maximum volume size (not free space) that the camera will 'format'.
For the 5.2.5 firmware that ceiling is around 200GB.
I believe it's higher on newer firmware - but I'm not sure where it changes and by how much.
Hopefully others who have done this may comment.

Thank you for the post! I am running firmware version 5.4.5 build 170123 on both cameras. I will probably try this when time permits. Current 64 gig micro SD cards are barely adequate, but I want to add a camera that does not have a micro SD slot - Hikvision DS-2CD2085FWD-I.