Bosch Appliances 700 DVR User Manual


 
96 en | Advanced configuration Divar 700 Series
F.01U.246.471 | v3.6 | 2011.11 Installation and Operation manual Bosch Security Systems
6.10 Storage
The Storage menu gives access to information on the hard disk(s) and iSCSI storage LUNs.
Figure 6.24 Configuration menu - Storage - Disk set
6.10.1 Disk set
A disk set consists of 1 or more disk drives and/or iSCSI LUNs. It normally is associated with a
particular recorder unit. A recorder unit may recognise more than one such disk sets, but only
one is the active disk set.
Selection of active disk set
Should the unit detect more than one disk set during system boot, the user is prompted to
select the active disk set. Click on the disk set you want to use, and optionally check the read
only box to prevent recording on that disk set. Click OK to start normal operation.
If you let the timer expire in this panel, the disk set last used for recording in the unit becomes
the active disk set used in write mode. Once the active disk set is choosen, the other disk sets
are ignored. You can add the drives that belong to these other disk sets to the active disk set.
In this case the video on the drives is lost.
The Active disk set properties apply to the complete set of active hard disks:
Disks in set shows which hard disks are used.
Write protect disk set indicates if the disk set is used for reading and/or writing. Click
Change to set a different mode than displayed.
Internal RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) activates a redundant storage
mechanism (RAID 4) that ensures a higher reliability of recorded content. To activate the
RAID function, four harddisks must be installed and a RAID license activated. While