My external hard drive keeps blinking orange and needs to reformat again?

[Deb-b3]

My external hard drive requires reformatting often. After reformatting, the local storage says READY. A few days later, the USB icon us blinking orange and needs reformatting again. Each time I am erasing my data...assuming it is actually backing up. Is anyone else having this problem?

[TomMac]

It for some reason may be the hard drive your using.... in the past some users had truoble with usb drives.

Because the USB backup must be ejected and transfered to a computer, most find a speed stick to be the best answer.

[Deb-b3]

Thank you.

I am using a SeaGate 640GB as I have 3 cameras and felt like I needed substantial space. It is not a new one but was emptied of all info before I used it. I will try a speed stick. I just searched them on Amazon. Do you know the amount of Alro information can be stored of 268MB for drive?

[TomMac]

I would recommend any size over 16 GB... Myself I run a sandisk 64 GB usb stick.  ( under $10  )

Just make sure it's a quality brand with good speed rating.

10 secs of recording is aprox ( Pro/Pro2 ) 1MB , so you'll have plenty of room...and can set for deleting older vids if desired