Hi guys its Hik Guru here in todays video I'm going to be showing you how to install
a surveillance hard drive into your HikVision NVR. First things first lets make sure we've
got all of the parts necessary for the install, so in your HikVision NVR box you should have
a pack of screws for the hard drive, power cable and a data transfer cable,
you'll need a screwdriver, and of course the hard drive itself, and we recommend you use a
specific surveillance hard drive so we're using a Seagate SkyHawk drive that's 1TB
we can also use a WD Purple drive if you use any other drive it will likely fail
very quickly such as a desktop hard drive they are not meant to be ran 24/7 like these are.
So first things first lets open up our NVR so this is a HikVision DS-7604NI-K1/4P
we've got 6 screws to undo this one here this one here on the back
this one here this one here and the other side here and here so lets get those undone.
Right so now that all 6 screws are off we can take our cover off the NVR so it simply just slides off
bit tight in this case take it off put it to one side so we've now got our motherboard so our hard
drive is going to go in this section here, here is our power connector and our data transfer
connector that's where those 2 cables are going to plug into so now lets get our hard drive here
you've got the connections on this side here so these want to be going facing in this direction
here pop our drive on you've got your screw holes here so try to match them up roughly
now I'm going to open our screw packet
these are small and fiddly make sure you keep them safe don't lose any
does help if you've got smaller fingers so what I do is I hold onto my drive turn the box upside
down and you can see our screw holes just line up you can put the screws in the hard drive first
loosely and then just slide the drive on but I tend sometimes they don't always fit in properly
or you end up losing a screw or it falls out. I'm going to pop a screw in get my screwdriver
and start screwing don't overtighten it just yet next screw I'm going to do the opposite corner
screw that in now I'm just going to push the hard drive down so it goes nice and
tight so it's not going to move around like this it's nice and at the bottom and now I'm
going to tighten these up then we're just going to put our last 2 in. After
putting all 4 screws in we're going to grab our power cable
so here it is a specific way you've got to put it in you've got a little
ridge here at the bottom which will go in this way into the drive you can match it up
on the drive itself you'll be able to see the little ridge so it's the connector on the left,
just going to click in make sure it actually clicks into the slot rather than underneath
the slot sometimes if you're not careful the connector will actually go under rather than
on the connector. Now going to grab my data transfer cable
do the same thing so the connector just next to it
clicks in silver clip on top and you're going to hear it click quite quietly make sure that's in
so now lets pop these cables into the corresponding ports so blue cable is going to here
and then our power cable so this clip here needs to be on the top side just like so
and that's it we can get our cover back on now so what I do is I'd bend these out
slightly when you are putting it on just so that it wraps around this frame here
and then just pull it towards you making sure that that little ridge here goes underneath like so
and now we can pop our 6 black screws
back into these holes just start them off by hand seeing as they are quite large
and then do them with the screwdriver
and that's it hard drive installed one last little tip on here there's a little piece of plastic film
that you can just peel off so it reveals a nice polished finish lots of people do forget that
and never knew it was there in the first place but yeah that is it guys that's how to install
a surveillance hard drive in a HikVision NVR for full setup instructions see our other video
the link will be somewhere on the screen here but yeah that's it guys you take care bye bye