34Ford 0 Posted May 16 I just received this dvr Tuesday and it was running fine with the Western Digital 3TB purple drive for 24 hours. This drive had worked fine in my old Dahua for 8 years. Now its alarming and shows a warning for health. I have formatted and even tried another drive. I even did a factory reset of the dvr. Getting close to getting my money back or upgrading. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 190 Posted May 16 4 hours ago, 34Ford said: I just received this dvr Tuesday and it was running fine with the Western Digital 3TB purple drive for 24 hours. This drive had worked fine in my old Dahua for 8 years. Now its alarming and shows a warning for health. I have formatted and even tried another drive. I even did a factory reset of the dvr. Getting close to getting my money back or upgrading. Hi. 34ford i think your problem is your hard drive…. If it’s been used for 8 years then it is at the end of its life with your new recorder …Ai -H265-audio-4K it’s a lot of data …. A hard drive of 8 years will look as if a format cleans it up we’re the fact is it does not ….. it only passes by the bad sectors and the more bad sectors make it hard to wright to. You can’t put a hard drive back to original it will always have data on it 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark_M 3 Posted May 19 8 years is remarkably good for a CCTV hard drive. Life expectancy of a CCTV hard drive is 5 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
