What do I look for when purchasing my dvr to go with WD my 2tb My Book Storage with auto back up? Or what space am I lookin for in the dvr HD or space
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Just make sure that your DVR has a eSATA hook up on it as well as a USB. On almost all of the DVR's I've seen or used. The eSATA hook up works best and fastest. The USB is OK but a lot of the newer dvr's must be hooked up by the eSATA only. And will only work by that particular hook up. So make sure yours have it. As for space on your dvr, almost any size will do, as you are adding an entire 2 tb . Unless you do an extraordinary large amount of recording all in HD. The 2tb will work fine with any size dvr you buy. But some have said that the 2tb slows the dvr playback down and makes it skip. I myself have not yet had this problem. Hope this answers some of your questions. Happy New Year. And enjoy your movie watching.
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B. Meerdink, neither of the two information you brought are backed by the links you posted.I've been searching the internet for the same info D. Wong wants, I'm about sure there is no document on WD's website that will state which is the internal drive interface of "My Passport Essential" products. This is something only reviewers who have opened their "My Passport Essential" drives can tell us. Do you happen to own one of those? Have you opened it up?? Has anyone out there?
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From past experiences with WD I stopped using them several years ago. Seagate or Hitachi would be a better choice in my opinion.
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And to answer your question the dvr can record 24/7 for about 8 months before you run out. 500gigs is a lot bro
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I have used a 4TB WD MyBook successfully. I made the mistake of connecting that 4TB drive to an old Windows computer which mangled it, then even after a reformat, the DVR crashes every time I connect the drive. Somehow only the original factory format could work.The DVR can use a large FAT32 drive but formatting a 2TB+ HD as FAT32 results in 1.6TB capacity.
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WD always uses their "Green" series of drives (5400 RPM) in the MyBook. I buy them just for the drive inside, because the Green drive is about 20% cheaper if purchased as an external MyBook. I have several 1TB drives that I bought in 2006 and they are still running great, showing between 90-100% health in 2 different diagnostics programs. That's why I went back to the MyBook whenever I needed more drive space... I now have 3 of the 4TB's and so far so good.
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Just comes with 4 cameras and 4 cables. They 600 TVL. No DVR included. Hard Drive space depends on how many cameras, what resolution it records, compression, and how many days you want to store, before they get written over. You can also use a motion detect feature, to reduce drive usage.
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i would call wd customer support if you want to get a quick answer to this question. don't waste your time searching all of the forums as it is faster to call the company directly. want to get a system that really screams speed wise. buy two velociraptors up to 1tb size and put them in one build in raid configuration which is really easy to do. just ask your local computer repair shop to help you out if you do not want to try this build yourself.
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Use the USB and a USB external hard drive. WD has one with 2TB I picked up during Black Friday sales.
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Sorry, I run Windows, don't do "I" products, the actual available storage is slightly less than 500GB's, so if you need 500 I'd go bigger, there is a 750 & a 1TB on Amazon
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To be honest, I am not really sure. I put a WD 1TB Green Drive, which other people had issues with in other DVR's & I did not have any problems.
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If you are asking how to use this drive as a backup device for your computer, completely independent of any use for a DVR, then all you would need is an e-sata cable and an e-sata port on your computer. Plug the cables in, turn it on, and Windows should recognize the drive and allow you to format it/use as you see fit.
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According to product instruction: "It is possible to expand the available storage using an external hard drive. The hard disk must either be formatted with NTFS or FAT 16/32. Connect the hard drive through the USB port, and the DVR will automatically recognize it. To set the DVR to record onto the external hard drive , access the menu. Under REC tab, select REC device and choose USB....." Seems to me you can do what you seek.
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I'm told that there are limits as to how big a drive you can hook to a DVR. I found one post that said 500GB is it for the 8300HD; I've got a friend with a different brand of DVR and his instructions say his maxes out at 750GB. I'd want to be sure the 8300HD will support a 2TB before I dropped $500 on it!
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Confusing right? They sell just the hardware and shell. You have to buy the drives. I went with WD Red series. I would recommend you buy two drives ; one to make a mirror backup of the main drive. If yuh have a lot of home videos, buy two 3 TB drives or higher. My analysis suggests that this is the best price point. It is, overall, a $500 investment. But, it's worth it for pictures, phones and computer backup.
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.