lethanhtrung 0 Posted May 12, 2015 hi everyone, i have an issue with HDD for DVR, please help me when i use 2TB HDD for the DVR, it's ok but using larger HDD (3TB, 4TB...), it's not stabilze, after days the DVR could not recognize the HDD, i tested DVRs and many of them have this problem, i don't know what is the reason, when reading the HDD specs (seagate), the 4TB HDD power requirements even lower than the 2TB, so please help me to find out the reason, thank you verymuch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Securame 0 Posted May 12, 2015 What DVRs, and what HDs? I do not remember ever having a problem with 4Tb HDs, we only use WD Purple 4Tb now, with Hikvision and Dahua DVRs/NVRs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lethanhtrung 0 Posted May 12, 2015 we use Seagate HDD with DVRs (Dahua, iCatch, XiongMai...) and it seems that only dahua has less problem, other ones often can not recognize large HDD (>3TB) after a period time of using (about 2,3 months) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
secplus 0 Posted May 12, 2015 we use Seagate HDD with DVRs (Dahua, iCatch, XiongMai...) and it seems that only dahua has less problem, other ones often can not recognize large HDD (>3TB) after a period time of using (about 2,3 months) Seagate over 3TB is not good for surveillance, the only ones that will work properly are the WD purple drives, like Securame says. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lethanhtrung 0 Posted May 14, 2015 we use Seagate HDD with DVRs (Dahua, iCatch, XiongMai...) and it seems that only dahua has less problem, other ones often can not recognize large HDD (>3TB) after a period time of using (about 2,3 months) Seagate over 3TB is not good for surveillance, the only ones that will work properly are the WD purple drives, like Securame says. please tell me the reason why seagate over 3TB is not good for surveillance, it is what i need to know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
secplus 0 Posted May 15, 2015 we use Seagate HDD with DVRs (Dahua, iCatch, XiongMai...) and it seems that only dahua has less problem, other ones often can not recognize large HDD (>3TB) after a period time of using (about 2,3 months) Seagate over 3TB is not good for surveillance, the only ones that will work properly are the WD purple drives, like Securame says. please tell me the reason why seagate over 3TB is not good for surveillance, it is what i need to know Read this article so you have an idea: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1210 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites