ZMODO DVR-H9108V 8 Channel CCTV Security Surveillance Security DVR - 3G Mobile

I like this DVR as I can view all my cameras via my phone. The router needs set for the ports used but I can now view what is going on at home with my phone or computer. my 1.5tb drive gives me about 3 weeks record time using 4 cameras.

menus are unusable locks up video SUCKS something as simple as playback last nights recording take 11 clicks on remote to get to play the video no time on screen and video is so dark u can not see anything 15 feet out I purchased as a backup to the older unit that works correctly just has to many hours on it. but what should you expect for 90 bucks from china maybe I should whack myself each time I buy cheap Chinese electronics and then wonder why they don't work correctly.. QUICK UPDATE JUST INSTALLED THE 199.00 CIB DVR works great! awesome pic menus are great CIB J960N08 960H HDMI High Resolution 8 CH Network Security Surveillance DVR

Last year I bought this DVR with 8 Cams and 500Gb HD. It is a very good product, quality images, internet view. But after 1 year it stopped working. I just bought another one but I hope this time i have a more durable product.

The quality of this brand is really improving! Place a HD of 1TB, then connect the camera and the monitor VGA and ... voila! working all Remote access was instant, following the instruction manual (1 single page ... more than enough), scanning the OCR code located outside of the unit my cell, everything is setting up instantly. The new application Zsight is more efficient than the previous Zviewer (I think the images go through his server ... I hope they do not switch off in the future) I rate with 4 stars instead of 5 because the menu that was floating before, is now located at the bottom of the screen and is hidden on my TV. I can only access it intuitively In short, an efficient product with a low price.

Hard Drive Requirements: SATA II or SATA III interface Storage capacity of at least 250GB and no more than 2TB. See our Storage Calculator to determine exactly how much you need. Choose a hard drive with a physical size of 3.5". It may also be reffered to as a desktop sized hard drive. Choose a hard drive that spins at 5400RPMS, or "Intellipower" because these hard drives use less power and also produce less heat. Choose a hard drive that is rated as industrial/surveillance grade because a standard, PC grade hard drive will fail quickly in a DVR system. Use a hard drive with 16MB of cache or more. There are three hard drives that meet all of the requirements and recommendations and they are the Western Digital AV-GP line of hard drives and the Seagate Pipeline line of hard drives. There is also a newer hard drive that Western Digital manufactures solely for DVRs. This is the Western Digital Purple series. Warnings: Stay away from using Western Digital Caviar Black or the Western Digital Caviar Blue hard drives. They have higher power requirements and create much more heat. Do not use a Solid State drive (SSD) in the DVR. The constant writing of the drive will wear the drive out much faster than a traditional hard drive. Do not use an external hard drive that hooks up through USB. The USB interface does not allow live recording. http://kb.zmodo.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=1&id=3&artlang=en

Better than I had expected for such a low price. All information is straight forward to get it up and running. I had purchased my own DVR hard drive and installed it, went to format and clicked - done! Up and working in a very short time.

I recently got the 4 channel CIB DVR and wanted to upgrade to an 8 channel DVR. The ZMODO was lower price so I thought I would give it a try. Connecting the cameras was pretty straight forward but everything else afterwards was a mess. The configuration menu is horrible. You actually need the remote control to set the IP of the DVR. The password for admin and user don't work. Resetting it also doesn't work. The client software doesn't look like you can manage the DVR from a computer. I've setup quite a few surveillance DVRs and this is by far the most frustrating. What a piece of junk. Just pay for the CIB DVR and save yourself a lot of headaches.

For the price I paid, this DVR is worth every penny. It does what I wanted and more. I am so pleased with this purchase that I have recommended it to my friends, some of whom have already seen mine and then went and ordered the same thing. You should get it, you'll be very glad you did.