Hard Drive Slave Question With Costco Swann System

[Ex-Roughneck 0]

I bought this 2 TB NVR system from COSTCO. NVR is a Swann CONVR-B83mp

 

http://www.costco.com/Swann-8-Channel-HD-NVR-Security-System-with-2TB-HDD-and-8-3MP-HD-IP-Cameras.product.100146087.html

 

I want to expand/slave the existing drive to record more. I am looking at WD at their Purple Drives. I see they have 6,5,4,3 TB Drives. With the 2 TB drive that came with the system can I buy any size WD drive and slave with no issues?

 

Bottom Line. I don't want to buy a large drive if they system won't recognize the full value of TB the HDD actually is. Could this possibly be an issue?

[Billy_ICU 0]

Note that surveillance system disk drives are different from regular computer disk drives in that they are designed to run 24/7 as well as other things like record sequentially - they are specially designed for CCTV.

 

Google the words cctv disk drives

[Boogieman 1]

Note that surveillance system disk drives are different from regular computer disk drives in that they are designed to run 24/7 as well as other things like record sequentially - they are specially designed for CCTV.

 

Google the words cctv disk drives

He knows and wants to use a wd purple which is a surveillance grade drive...his question was what is the maximum size the unit will allow...

OP, just call swann and ask. It should at least handle 4tb.

[Ex-Roughneck 0]

Thanks. I have emailed Swann a couple times...No reply. I will attempt again. Thanks for the reply.

 

Their Cameras are good. There Customer Support....Not so Good.

 

Merry Christmas.

[iSpy Security 0]

My friend sorry to hear that, the thing i that the NVR only holds 4TB hard drive and you have 4 IP cameras recording, how you have the cameras set up, meaning the cameras are set up to record in motion? what frame rate do you have set up on the NVR ? all this can affect the space on you hard drive, WD is a good product i have been using them on all on my installations, never have a problem and i been in business for 5 years,

 

another thing is my friend, the tech support of Swann or any others brands out there are not reliable, in my quote i always offer the customers 3 years of warranty and Services calls are 60 per visit, depending on the services call for example if I have to reconfigured the NVR/DVR or re do the port forwarding on the router things of that nature that is not a system fail, take a look in your website www.ispysecuritysystem.net

 

iSpy Security

[Ex-Roughneck 0]

I got a hold of Swann Tech Support on the Telephone. I did not see that option earlier I thought I was limited to emailing my questions. Swann picked up right away and had a good session.

 

My NVR system 3MP - 8ea cameras I bought at COSTCO came with a 2 TB SATA2 hard drive came with a Slave cable. No where in the documentation did it state max size I could expand or add to.

 

I saw looking at Western Digital Purple drives and they go up to 6 TB. Anyway. Swann told me that keeping the existing drive I can add a 3 TB drive (2+3) and increase my capacity to 5 TB total slaved.

 

They also told me that I need to add a SATA 2 drive. Of course the WD PURPLE drive I bought from WD was a better SATA version than that because they don't sell SATA 2, I am assuming ....2 is older technology. I hope it is backward compatible and will reveal the true size of the drive when I slave it. My fear was say if I slave a 6TB drive to the 2 TB drive it would not recognize the true size of the slaved drive. I will post the outcome later once I receive and install the drive.

 

Happy New year to all.

[Ex-Roughneck 0]

I put in the 3TB system with no issues. It actually had a seperate slot to plug in on the motherboard. Swann came with @TB Western Digital HD and I was able to add the 3TB drive. Very simple process. Just Install and initialize. It was plug and play.