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Digger2001
Feb 02, 2021Aspirant
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2 questions relating to this please if anyone can help me... 1 ! wanted to use 1 if the spare bays I have for CCTV and i bought a CCTV drive, placed it in the bay, and its used it automatically a...
- Feb 02, 2021
If you are using XRAID, then when you insert a new drive it is normally added to the existing volume. If you don't want that to happen, then you need to switch to FlexRaid.
Netgear no longer offers any surveillance app, so you are on your own there. Hopefully other users will chime in. I believe Sandshark uses Blue Iris - running it on a PC, but using the NAS for storage.
StephenB
Feb 02, 2021Guru - Experienced User
If you are using XRAID, then when you insert a new drive it is normally added to the existing volume. If you don't want that to happen, then you need to switch to FlexRaid.
Netgear no longer offers any surveillance app, so you are on your own there. Hopefully other users will chime in. I believe Sandshark uses Blue Iris - running it on a PC, but using the NAS for storage.
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