SureVision Storage Hard Drive Health Guide

SureVision Support Guide • Storage • Disk Management • HDD Health

SureVision Storage & HDD Health Guide

Your recorder’s hard drives are what keep your surveillance system useful. This guide explains how SureVision storage works, how to think about recording schedules and retention, and how to check the health of your NVR hard disks.

What SureVision Storage Covers

Recording Schedule

Set when cameras record and how long footage is kept based on your storage capacity and retention needs.

Snapshot Schedule

Configure image snapshots by schedule, motion, alarm, or event trigger, with adjustable image quality and intervals.

Disk Management

Manage disks, storage allocation, disk groups, and advanced settings, and review HDD status directly from the NVR.

How to Check HDD Health

SureVision includes built-in hard-drive health checks. Under maintenance, you can review HDD Status, run a S.M.A.R.T. Test, and start Bad Sector Detection to identify disk problems before they affect your recordings.

S.M.A.R.T. Test

Start the test and watch the live progress in the Status column. Results are reported as Healthy, Failure, or Bad Sectors.

Bad Sector Detection

SureVision can scan a drive in read-only mode to find damaged areas. Good sectors and damaged sectors are shown differently on the results screen.

When to Replace a Drive

If the system reports Failure or shows bad sectors, replace the disk as soon as possible to avoid losing recordings.

Storage Planning Tip

More cameras, higher resolution, higher frame rates, and longer retention periods all require more storage. If your retention target matters, choose recorder storage with room to grow.

Advanced Storage Features

The manual also covers RAID arrays, disk groups, space allocation, redundant recording, and redundant snapshot support on certain models. These features are useful for larger systems that need better data protection and organized storage management.