Accessing MicroSD Card

Adelphia UK

I have an NVR 8 channel (RLN8-410) with 2 RLC-410-5MP attached. I have noticed that, after connecting my camera's to the NVR I am unable to access the cameras directly.[br][/br][br][/br]

In each camera I have installed a 128GB MicroSD card for 24 hour recording which runs in conjunction with motion recording on the NVR. How do I view the video on the MicroSD or have I wasted my money buying the cards and putting them in?[br][/br][br][/br]

The reason I ask is that we have recently had a theft on site and using the motion sensitive recording, the exact moment of the theft has been missed due to the recording not starting quick enough. I have therefore had to switch the NVR onto 24 hour recording which I didn't want to do given that the HDD has moving parts whereas the MicroSD doesn't and therefore more robust.[br][/br][br][/br]

I look forward to your reply.[br][/br][br][/br]

tinman

Just an opinion here but I believe an SD card has a limited number of write cycles whereas the HDD may not work forever it will surely outlive an SD card when considering write operations. Also, the HDD is spinning all the time anyway so not recording 24/7 will not extend its life significantly IMO. The major consideration with regard to recording 24/7 is how many total hours of recording will you have based on the capacity of your HDD.

tinman

I hope Reolink monitors this forum and will give a definitive answer about whether or not the HDD will spin down if not being accessed. I would be surprised if that were true. I saw another post here about the apparent inability to access a camera's SD card if the camera is attached to an NVR. I have 5 cameras in which I had installed 64Gb SD cards. I later connected them to an NVR. I'm actually hoping that the SD card is not written to at all once the camera is connected to the NVR. It would be a waste of the SD card's useful life. So far I haven't gone to the trouble of climbing up to my cameras and unmounting them to get access to the SD cards and removing them.
You can actually search for motion events on individual cameras using the NVR monitor - but it's pretty tedious. You can also search for events by connecting to the NVR using your computer and browser. I haven't really done any of that nor have I experimented much with motion sensitivity and masking settings in an attempt to make motion events more definitive. But it is something I will be investigating.