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Some Questions for Local Storage Users on Arlo Pro

johnny5lives — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:10:51 GMT

For local storage users on the Arlo Pro:

Do you see a need to pay for a subscription when you storing your videos locally?
Has the 7-day free cloud storage been sufficient for your needs (in case something happened to your local storage)?
Are you using a USB drive or external hard drive?
What is your recommendation on storage size?

Re: Some Questions for Local Storage Users on Arlo Pro

TomMac — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 18:44:17 GMT

1) No, On the PRO base, the videos go to the cloud and the local usb drive at the same time ( if prev set up )

2) The 7 days storage is rolling 7 days, On day #8, Day #1 is auto deleted ...there is no storage limit at this time and hasn't been for over a year.

You MUST download any thing you think important. As to the local usb drive a 32gb spped stick should be more than good for over 30 days as a 10 second video is aprox 1 MB

BTW, if going on vacation, you can always upgrade to a longer time/service level on a per month basis

3) You can use either, I use a 32 GB speed stick, cost me about $20 a while back...you can use an HD in the USB up to 2 TB in size...just that some external HDs require external power due to the limits on the usb output

4) low end about 5Gb, high end about 64GB... anything else is prob wasted... but use what ever you have as you have options to how it fills up.

Re: Some Questions for Local Storage Users on Arlo Pro

philipchua — Sat, 13 May 2017 05:52:57 GMT

does the base have enough power to accomdodate wifi usb storage?

Re: Some Questions for Local Storage Users on Arlo Pro

jguerdat — Sat, 13 May 2017 12:37:43 GMT

Define WiFi USB storage. I suspect but don't know for sure that the USB ports are .5A.

Re: Some Questions for Local Storage Users on Arlo Pro

philipchua — Sat, 13 May 2017 13:07:53 GMT

to be specific - sandisk wireless stick.

my base is located at not so easily accessible area

i want to be able to view the usb local storage without having to go through the hassle