Hard Drive To Use With Dvr

[starsatuk]

Hi,

can i use any hard drive with any DVR is there a type of Hard drive i have to use with certain DVR's if someone can give me some information over this it will help alot as i dont wana try and damaged anything?

[Cubit]

Hi,

can i use any hard drive with any DVR is there a type of Hard drive i have to use with certain DVR's if someone can give me some information over this it will help alot as i dont wana try and damaged anything?

Try the one that came with it.

[satsuma01]

Try the one that came with it.

[jnealon]

Try the Seagate SV35 or the Hitachi DeathStar. I use the Seagates but have seen the hitachi used before

[sjonley]

Yo need to use a hard disk designed for a longer duty cycle than the standard 20-30% normally associated with PC's.

for a starter, see : Seagate HDD designed for Video Surveillance

If you use a standard hdd, it may fail sooner than you think.

[CompostCORNER]

I would have thought that the answer would be, 'it depends on what DVR you have.'

I'm under the impression that the majority of DVRs, have their operating software on a rom chip. So the hard drive is used exclusively for storing images. In that sense, I would presume the hard drive could easily be swapped for a replacement one.

On the otherhand, there are some DVR's out there that store their operating software within a small partition on the hard drive. Similar to PC's that have Windows XP pre-installed and come with recovery disks rather than a legitimate disk of Windows XP. I'm under the impression that DM Sprites source information from the primary drive on boot-up. The 'bootloader' as the Sprite calls it.

I'm sure someone will put me right if I'm mis-informed.