Quadrox QGuard Installation Manual - Manual (Page 36)

GuardNVR Installation Manual 36
Version 4.4 Series
4 Advanced topics
4.1 Extending storage space
You are able to add new hard disks to your GuardNVR server to increase movie storage
capacity (this both inside or ouside the GuardNVR unit case). The following two sections
describe how to first physically and after that logically add new storage space. The example
focuses on adding one extra hard disk inside a GuardNVR Ser ver with an Windows XP OS.
Other configurations are similar.
4.1.1 Adding hard disk
In order to add a hard disk to the GuardNVR, follow the steps below:
1. Make sure the GuardNVR is turned off completely by removing the power cable from
the power supply at the back of the GuardNVR.
2. Remove the top cover.
3. Place the additional hard disk near the old one in the special tray.
4. Connect one side of a flat IDE cable to the second hard disk and the other side to the
second IDE slot on the motherboard. In case of SATA, the procedure is similar.
5. Connect power cable to the hard disk.
6. Check the proper setting of the hard disk jumper. Both hard disks have to be configured
as master when connected to two different IDE cables. If they are connected to the
same IDE slot the main hard disk is a Master, the additional hard disk should be Slave.
Please set the jumper to the Slave position. This step can be skipped if you use SATA.
To correctly configure the jumper settings, please visit the web site of the respective
Hard Disk manufacturer:
HITACHI: www.ghst.com
MAXTOR: www.maxtor.com
SAMSUNG: www.samsung.com
SEAGATE: www.seagate.com
WESTERN DIGITAL: www.westerndigital.com
7. Close the top cover.
8. Turn on the power of the GuardNVR and make sure that the message that a new hard
disk drive is detected appears. Normally you will be asked to save the new settings.