Written by When using a NAS for storage of video from Hikvision surveillance cameras, you may encounter a situation where the HDD keeps returning to the uninitialized state.
The reason for this is that the camera can’t cope with large drives. I tried to attach a 33 Terra-byte share to the camera and that didn’t work.
Only when I put a quota on the share of 150 Gigabyte, the format succeeded and the status stayed normal
I guess 150 GB is not the limit, try 200 or 300.. see what works.
My drive is 250GB, but I created a 5GB partition for testing. Same thing happening.
Awesome! Thanks! That was exactly my issue!
2 Hikvision cameras (DS-2CD2Txxxxx series) and 3TB CIFS share worked like a charm!
50/50 space assigned via user quota, each camera own user …
…. until NAS has crashed and reported free space changed when cameras were offline during offline filesystem scan.
Now it shows again: uninitialized.
How to recover recordings?