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My old CCTV DVR finally died after 12 years of service
Had my trusty old DVR from 2012 sitting in the garage running 4 bullet cams around the property. Last Thursday I went to pull up footage from the night before and the thing just showed a black screen. No power light, no hard drive clicks, nothing. Opened it up and the power supply board had a big burn mark near the capacitor. I spent the weekend swapping it out with a used unit I found on Facebook Marketplace for $40. Still need to figure out if I lost any saved footage from the old hard drive. Anyone here ever pulled a drive from a dead DVR and got it working in a PC?
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gibson.morgan10d ago
Can't believe that old thing made it 12 years without dying sooner.
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drew_jones3110d ago
Man that's rough, seriously feels bad when a piece of tech just gives up on you like that. Twelve years is a solid run though, most of that stuff barely makes it past five these days. Hope he can get those cat videos back somehow or find new ones.
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