Prices
CCTV hard drive cost in Islamabad
PKR 12,000 to 15,000 buys a 1 TB surveillance-rated hard drive fitted in Islamabad; 2 TB typically runs PKR 20,000 to 26,000 and 4 TB around PKR 34,000 to 42,000. Size from retention, not budget: four 2MP cameras recording continuously fill roughly 1 TB every 15 to 20 days.
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Surveillance-rated is not a sales line
Drives built for CCTV are engineered for continuous writing, around the clock, for years. A desktop drive in the same slot works for a while and fails early — and swapping one in is a substitution some cheap quotes make silently. Ask for the drive model on the quotation; a surveillance series is easy to verify and the price difference is small.
Work the size backwards from the question
Decide how far back you will ever need to look — for most shops that is the monthly stock-take, so thirty days. Four 2MP cameras need about 2 TB for that; 4MP doubles it; adding cameras scales it again. Motion-only recording on quiet channels stretches any drive further. Buy the smallest drive the recorder accepts and you will meet a day-twenty discrepancy holding twelve days of history.
Drives are consumables, not fittings
Continuous writing wears a drive out in three to five years, and heat shortens that — a recorder shut in an unventilated cabinet through an Islamabad June ages its drive fast. Replacing on a planned maintenance visit costs the price of the drive; discovering the failure after an incident costs the incident.
How much is a CCTV hard drive in Islamabad?
Can you fit a new drive on one visit?
Yes — the PKR 3,000 repair call-out covers coming out and fitting it, and the recorder is reconfigured and verified recording before we leave.
How do I know my drive is dying?
Stuttering playback, gaps in the timeline and recorder health warnings are the usual signs. A maintenance visit reads the drive's own diagnostics and catches it earlier than any symptom does.
Rather have it done?
CCTV installation means a free survey of your shop, office or home, a camera plan that covers gates, counters and blind corners, cabling run through conduit, a recorder sized for the days of footage you want, and phone viewing working before handover. A four-camera 2MP package in Islamabad or Rawalpindi runs PKR 55,000 to 85,000 fitted.
CCTV installation in Islamabad — prices and scope