fdan4817 0 Posted July 28, 2005 Recently our system with four cameras attached to a GeoVision 800-16 running version 6 software began crashing. We first did a Win2000 repair process, but it ran for less than a day. We thought the hard drive had cratered, but after disconnecting all cables and then reconnecting, the system once again booted up with no problems. I did chkdsk and found no problems. However, when I pulled up Windows Defrag, the drive was almost fully fragmented. The disk is 250GB and it was about 75% full. I don't remember the exact fragmentation percentage, but it had to be close to 75%, if not higher. Has anyone else experienced this problem with GV DVRs and/or is it common to other DVRs as well? If so, how have you resolved or worked through this issue? Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scottj 0 Posted July 28, 2005 Dan, Video data will be fragmented which is perfectly normal and common when dealing with DVR's. However, did you partition your drive to separate the video storage from the system software/OS? scottj Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fdan4817 0 Posted July 28, 2005 No. But I am guessing from your question that we should have. Should the GV Program be on the OS partition or the storage partition or can you even define the location of the video storage to be on a separate partition from the GV Software? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scottj 0 Posted July 28, 2005 We have had success installing the OS on a separate 5-10GB partition, then install the GV software on the same partition where you will store your video and audio data, and logs. You have the capability to map the storage location to anywhere so if you add additional single drives you can map the video to them. scottj Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wahloon 0 Posted July 29, 2005 you are asking for trouble when you don't do 2 partition because it just gets to crazy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeromephone 6 Posted July 30, 2005 another thing that you can do if you have your disks partioned if you are concerned about fragmentation is to run diskeeper i have done that and don't really see any improvement. I have also ( if I don't need the old files) just reformatted the partion and resetup the path. That seems to be the fastest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sentry360 0 Posted August 3, 2005 Recently our system with four cameras attached to a GeoVision 800-16 running version 6 software began crashing. We first did a Win2000 repair process, but it ran for less than a day. We thought the hard drive had cratered, but after disconnecting all cables and then reconnecting, the system once again booted up with no problems. I did chkdsk and found no problems. However, when I pulled up Windows Defrag, the drive was almost fully fragmented. The disk is 250GB and it was about 75% full. I don't remember the exact fragmentation percentage, but it had to be close to 75%, if not higher. Has anyone else experienced this problem with GV DVRs and/or is it common to other DVRs as well? If so, how have you resolved or worked through this issue? Thanks. Are you using Western Digital by any chance??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fdan4817 0 Posted August 3, 2005 I don't think so. I didn't set the systems up. They are "Rocket" drives, which I am almost certain are not Western Digital. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
a94cobra 0 Posted January 25, 2006 I set my DVR up with a 8gig drive for all the OS. ANd put in to 200gb in a raid for storage. If a crash ever occurs either on the raid or the OS drive. The other will still be intact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
