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    Hikvision NVR Harddrive

    Perfect. Thank you! I wanted to make sure there is a difference between these and not only a marketing difference. Looking online, I failed to notice they're only $10 difference...
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    Hikvision NVR Harddrive

    My understanding is that the PURPLE drives are no different than the GREEN drives except the "firmware" that "optimizes" the hard drive for 24/7 surveillance. Only difference is support for better cache. Since I will be using this only to record motion, I am kind of skeptical about using more...
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    Hikvision NVR Harddrive

    What hard drive does everyone recommend? I am entertaining the Western Digital Blue or Green drives. I am unsure how the NVR works, does it keep the drives spinning constantly, or does it only spin up the drives when it senses motion and records? Obviously if I was recording 24/7 I would go with...
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    Hikvision Ds-78 and ivms4200 system

    I dug in a bit further and I found that there is a camera module for iRule. I connect it through a url admin:password@ip/channel/stream1 or something similar. I was under the impression that it's either NVR or the IVMS, but did not know IVMS can be used only as a client to set up the NVR. This...
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    Hikvision Ds-78 and ivms4200 system

    I am new here and starting looking around to build a system for my home. I am running into a few issues and I am not sure what is possible and what is not. First, I plan on using the 2CD2132 cameras around the house and the DS-78 or the DS-76 NVR with 8 POE ports for expandability. I read the...
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