Today I logged into my daughter's BI system and noticed yellow exclamations on half of her cams. After further research I figured out one of her 4TB drives failed completely. Fortunately I have 1/2 of her cams continuous record to one 4TB drive and the other half to another 4TB drive. So I remotely connected to her BI machine and changed the cams on the failed drive to record to the other.
Which gave me this idea. Currently I only use 2 of the profiles available on BI (default & 7) So I plan on using profile 4 and 5 now to set up a emergency plan to quickly change ether 1/2 of her cams to the other drive in case this ever happens again. So, all cams record to drive C: on profile 4 and all cams record to drive F: on profile 5. This will give me the option to quickly fix the BI setup in case of a drive failure by simply selecting that profile anywhere with out having to log in and change each cams properties. Not sure how the database will like this but it's better than nothing until I get the drive replaced.
Just another good reason to have 2 drives.....just in case. This was my first Purple drive to go bad and it was only 3 months old
Which gave me this idea. Currently I only use 2 of the profiles available on BI (default & 7) So I plan on using profile 4 and 5 now to set up a emergency plan to quickly change ether 1/2 of her cams to the other drive in case this ever happens again. So, all cams record to drive C: on profile 4 and all cams record to drive F: on profile 5. This will give me the option to quickly fix the BI setup in case of a drive failure by simply selecting that profile anywhere with out having to log in and change each cams properties. Not sure how the database will like this but it's better than nothing until I get the drive replaced.
Just another good reason to have 2 drives.....just in case. This was my first Purple drive to go bad and it was only 3 months old
