Swann SWDVK-834254S-US Owner's Manual

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Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of hard drives connected to the DVR.
External drives connected via eSATA will be listed here, and will behave like a standard 

hard drive. They will be labeled as eSATA.
External drives connected via USB will not appear on this list, and can’t be used to record 

footage - USB lacks the bandwidth to write multiple streams simultaneously. External 
USB drives can only be used for backing up footage.

 Initializes the hard drive. You’ll only need to do this for drives once, assuming that 

it’s not already initialized. If the Mount column reads “No”, select the hard drive and then 
choose Init. to initialize the drive.

Warning!  Don’t initialize a drive that already has data on it, as the 

initialization process will erase any information on the drive.

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is your hard drive’s way 

of telling the DVR how it’s going.

 The current condition of the hard drive. It should say “Good”. If it says anything 

else, this indicates there’s a problem with your hard drive.
If there’s no problem, there’s little else to do here, unless reading the output of the doz-

ens of self-tests the hard drive performs on itself is of interest to you.
If you have been confronted with a HDD Error, or the Status entry doesn’t read “Good” 

then you can use the S.M.A.R.T. information to attempt to diagnose the problem. The 

information presented in the S.M.A.R.T. report is practically identical to what you’d see 

on a desktop PC while using Administrator Tools, or a similar service.