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The original was posted on /r/ubiquiti by /u/mcmanigle on 2023-09-07 20:53:57+00:00.

I have a UDMP running Network and Protect, with a 1 TB hard drive (WD Purple). Total cameras are 5x G4 Pro, 1x G4 Instant, 1x G4 Doorbell, and 1x AI Theta. All are recording continuously except the AI Theta, which records about 12 hours/day. This system has been running for almost a year now without any issues.

Up until a couple of days ago, I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 hours of storage. Somehow, magically in the last day or two, I seem to only have 6 hours of storage recorded. This is listed appropriately in the Protect interface. There are no bad sectors listed on the Unifi OS storage overview.

The only other odd thing I notice is that the “Storage Overview” on the sidebar of the Protect home screen lists 25% of my storage used by “Timelapse.” I have no idea what that is; I can’t see anywhere that allows me to create, review, or delete timelapses, and googling “Unifi protect timelapse” is not helpful. Even so, the decrease in recording time is more like 75% than 25%.

The other thought that crossed my mind was some update that significantly increased camera bitrate / storage size. The UDMP is going on 40 days of uptime since last update, so that part’s not it, and all the camera uptimes list as “about 1 month.”

I’m happy to restart the UDMP, reformat the HDD, buy a bigger HDD, or whatever. And will probably try those things in that order if I don’t get anything useful here. It’s just a little frustrating to figure out what’s going on without much data.