Hikvision NAS Drive advice

[dappydan 0]

Hello,

I am new to this site so please forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong place,

I currently have a Hikvision DS-7208HFI-SH DVR and I am looking into installing a NAS drive.

First question is, do i need a specific NAS or will the WD my cloud i al;ready have work?

also can i use my NAS drive for storing pictures from my pc and my DVR use it, or have they got to be independant of each other?

 

Thanks

[Securame 0]

Have you even checked if the 7208HFI-SH supports recording to a networked drive?

 

I have not had any of these units for a long time so I can not check, but I doubt it, they are quite old.

[Daryl733 0]

Hello,

I am new to this site so please forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong place,

I currently have a Hikvision DS-7208HFI-SH DVR and I am looking into installing a NAS drive.

First question is, do i need a specific NAS or will the WD my cloud i al;ready have work?

also can i use my NAS drive for storing pictures from my pc and my DVR use it, or have they got to be independant of each other?

 

Thanks

 

By right, if the NAS support CIF/NFS, it should work with the newer HIKVISION DVR.

Some of them required a bit of trial and error before you are able to get it to work.

 

The DVR will FORMAT the whole partition it is assigned to for recording to it's own structure.

So in order for you to use your NAS as a storage device and also concurrently use it as an extended drive for your DVR, you'll have to create multiple partition on it and mapped accordingly. More tinkering. Some NAS doesn't allow you to split a single drive into multiple partition. Only assigned different partition to different drive in the NAS. So for those if you are using a single drive, you can either use it for the DVR or for your PC. Not both.

 

It's not a straight forward process though from my experience. No help's to be expected from the manufacturer unless you are using their NAS and their DVR from my experience.