If i have all 6 camera run 24/7, how many day to fill up the 2tb memory HD? Can it add on additional hard drive?
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Tony, There are actually 8 cameras. The vendor states that if you were to have all 8 cameras running 24/7, the memory would last you 12-30 days, depending on the photo quality setting you choose. The higher the quality of photo, the more memory is needed, the less days of filming. The lower the quality of photo, the less memory is needed, the closer you will get to the 30 days of film. In Q-See's opinion, the "lower" quality of photo is still very good and is satisfactory to most of their customers. I hope this helps you!
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a 500Gb for only 4 cameras only record for 24 hours continual and it will write over automatic every day if you want longer record time you have to change the hard drive to a bigger one a 1 tb will record 4 cameras for 45 days it says but I haven't had a chance to test my system for that time yet.You will get longer record time if you change the settings to motion only.The new hard drive runs about 100.00 I was alittle upset that they didn't let me know that before I bought the system and you have to have a special hard drive that works with this system.You can not use a usb hard drive it has to bea internal drive not a external drive.Hope this helps and answers your question. a 500Gb for only 4 cameras only record for 24 hours continual and it will write over automatic every day if you want longer record time you have to change the hard drive to a bigger one a 1 tb will record 4 cameras for 45 days it says but I haven't had a chance to test my system for that time yet.You will get longer record time if you change the settings to motion only.The new hard drive runs about 100.00 I was alittle upset that they didn't let me know that before I bought the system and you have to have a special hard drive that works with this system.You can not use a usb hard drive it... » Read More a 500Gb for only 4 cameras only record for 24 hours continual and it will write over automatic every day if you want longer record time you have to change the hard drive to a bigger one a 1 tb will record 4 cameras for 45 days it says but I haven't had a chance to test my system for that time yet.You will get longer record time if you change the settings to motion only.The new hard drive runs about 100.00 I was alittle upset that they didn't let me know that before I bought the system and you have to have a special hard drive that works with this system.You can not use a usb hard drive it has to bea internal drive not a external drive.Hope this helps and answers your question. « Show Less
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I don't think you will run out. I have the 15 camera system so I have 500MB but when I had the 5 camera system I never came close to using all the storage. I usually look at everything once our twice a day and delete it all. I usually look at a motion event when it happens and I get the email, then delete later. You will need to have the sensitivity set high to pick up motion from the cats. I have outside cameras too and if I have them set over 50% they will pick up cars going bi up to 100 yards away, and also on a partly cloudy day will react to the shadow of a cloud.
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Two hours at a time, just like with any other digital camera. Upload and start over. There is no external memory card and so you cannot increase the storage. I just use it for pictures since the audio is so bad.
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It depends on how long you wish to save the footage. Generally the hard drive is adequate since once there is not an incident there is no need to save the footage and it can be written over. You can download footage of interest to the through the USB onto a flash drive, etc. The drive space can also be extended using the motion sensor feature in that only if there is motion the footage is recorded. I don't use this feature and the drive can store almost 30 days of footage. The only limitation is when it begins to record over old footage it erases the entire drive and begins again so old footage is lost.
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if you set it up with the utility software it can be set to over write older data. about 8 hours with 32gb
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Wow, at 2terrabyte why is that even an issue?? I have no idea.. Just use a huge external hard drive and it should be almost limitless. All I know is that 2tb seems like plenty, at least for me. In four years of many photos, I didn't even fill 250gig on my laptop that was my main computer at the time. I do like this all in one, tho it isn't quite as fast as I had hoped it would be. And I prefer the Windows seven side to the childish eight side. Love the large screen. Overall..I would recommend it..the storage should be plenty especially for a home computer.
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2to 3 days,then the memory will get full,its best to set it on motion detection record,that way you only record when it detects motion,that way you don't use a lot of memory up for nothing.
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It depends upon the size of the chip you are using. The larger say 32 gig the longer. It also depends upon the amount of motion activity in the camera area. Ours have handled 20 plus days with room to spare.
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I have two of these camera but I have no idea how much built in memory they have. They are designed to use the mini dv tapes or onto a memory chip that does not come with the camera. I use the mini dv tapes that I guy from amazon really cheap and they will have 1 hour per tape if you use the regular settings.
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1 TB with continuous non-stop recording will hold about 3 weeks. You'll need a 3.5 SATA hard drive with a maximum of 3TB. So lets say you want a 3TB HDD, well you'll have about 9 week of non-stop recordings. However, you can set your DVR to motion detection, that way it'll record when it is triggered by motion in order to have optimum storage. Also, the DVR has automatic override, so when your HD is full, you'll system will override itself and keep recording. Hope this helped!
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IF ITS 1tb hdd, and you deployed all the 16 cameras, it will take you approximately 2 weeks of saved video footage, if you deploy 8 cameras , it will save like a month. But if the hdd is 500gb, 16 cameras will be like 1 week and 8 cameras is 2 weeks
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Depends on the size of the hard drive but at least 14 day of continuous recording
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This is a 500gb hard drive.based on the set up (continue record or motion detect 3 to 6 months with 4 cameras. It will auto delete old or overwrite the drive. If you need section saved put on thumb drive or disk for storage and just let the system continue.
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At least 1 month , but you can increase that buying 2 terabyte extrernal hard drive and transfer previous recording on that thus it can unlimited if you back with external drive.
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Actually, there's something in the manual about a video limit (NOT card limit) of 2GB (Video recording) at a time, but I am unclear about what happens then. Does one simply start recording again or is the max 2GB size just inaccurate; at that point. In any case, I don't think I'll be doing 2GB clips; without pause anyway, so no big deal.BTW, I like a 4GB (or bigger) SDHC (extreme III and reader) because I can take a bunch of pictures and still have room for video clips. I have extra 4GB cards not yet open.
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Hi! I actually never run out on build in 32gb. Photo works for sd. I was able to copy video from main drive to a card... I didn't tried to film on sd card. If I will try, I will consider to get some fastest card possible, because regular cards can be not able to process so much data. But I really like that camera!