Toshiba GSC-R30 Benutzerhandbuch

Preface

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This camera has its own built-in hard disk drive. Hard disk drive will also be referred to as 
“HDD” throughout this Owner's Manual. The hard disk drive is a precision component that 
is easily affected by impacts, vibration and environmental variations such as changes in 
temperature. Note the following when using the camera:

• Avoid striking, dropping, vibrating or waving the camera around while it is operating or 

while it is idle. Doing so could result in camera damage, malfunctions or loss of stored 
data.

• Do not turn the camera off while it is writing data to or reading data from the hard disk 

drive. Doing so could result in camera damage, malfunctions or loss of stored data.

• Before formatting the hard disk drive, check the data stored on the hard disk drive 

carefully.
Formatting the hard disk drive completely erases all the data saved on the hard disk 
drive. Data erased during formatting cannot be recovered.

• You should back up the data saved on the hard disk drive frequently in case of damage 

to the hard disk drive or any modification or erasing of the data.
Toshiba accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss or corruption of data stored on the 
hard disk drive.

• It is recommended that you make a trial recording before recording content that is 

important to you. Play back the trial recording to ensure that the video and audio were 
recorded properly.

• It is recommended that you periodically save the files on the hard disk drive to a PC, 

CD or DVD and format the hard disk drive.
The hard disk drive is a high precision component and there is always a risk of partial 
damage to the disk depending on how it is used. At worst, it may become impossible to 
read or write data to the hard disk drive.
Accordingly, the hard disk drive should not be regarded as a permanent storage 
location for recorded files, but rather as a temporary storage location for viewing images 
before they are to be erased or copied for permanent storage onto a PC, DVD recorder 
with DVR, CD or DVD, etc.

• When files are repeatedly recorded onto the hard disk drive and erased, file distribution 

on the hard disk drive becomes fragmented and the amount of continuous free space 
decreases.
When this occurs, files that cannot be saved into a single block of free space are split 
into 2 or more parts during saving.
Increasing numbers of split files will slow down normal camera operation and may in 
some cases prevent the allocation of sufficient free space to save new files even after 
stored images are erased.
In this situation, copy the files on the hard disk drive onto a PC, DVD recorder with DVR, 
CD or DVD, etc. and then format the built-in hard disk drive.