SVAT Electronics CLEARVU11 User Manual

now you can see

CLEARVU11

30

In HDD Setup display, press MODE 
to call up HDD Format/Clear screen 
as shown.

The HDD must be formatted before it can be used to record video/audio. The HDD Format/Clear screen allows 
the administrator to format and/or clear each HDD, and set the size for Alarm Record option and Normal Record option 
for each HDD. 

The general operations are as below:

•  MODE - Format

Press this button to format the HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on the screen, press ENTER to confirm, 
or ESC (MENU/ESC) to cancel. Please note that it will take a few minutes to format the HDD.

NOTE: If the HDD has not been formatted yet, it will be formatted and split up with default record size, 30% for 

Alarm record and 70% for Normal record. If it has been formatted before, it will be formatted according 

to the Alarm REC Size (%) and Normal REC Size (%) displayed on the screen, but the previously recorded 
contents within the new size won’t be cleared and will be accessible.

Press this button to clear the HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on the screen, press ENTER to confirm, or 
ESC (MENU/ESC) to cancel. 

Press this button to physically format the selected HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on the screen, 
press ENTER to confirm, or ESC (MENU/ESC) to cancel. Please note that the recording will be always optimized 
for performance & lifetime no matter if it’s the first time or the one hundredth time. The formatting of the HDD 
would only take about 1 minute. We strongly recommend that the user use this physical format function to 
format the HDD for the first time.

NOTE: The HDD will be physically formatted and split up with default record size, 30% for Alarm record and 70%
for Normal record. All the previously recorded will be erased.