How storage works

The 12-hour quota

The storage card on the device settings page shows the quota as a bar:

• Purple: stored footage inside the 12 hours.
• Amber: protected footage. The cloud never removes a protected clip to free space.
• Red: over quota. The bar clears as the oldest unlocked footage rotates out.

When new footage needs room, the cloud drops the oldest unlocked clips first: clips that don’t belong to a drive (the least useful, they have no map or timing), then the oldest drives’ clips. Some further rules apply:

• Your latest drive is safe. Clips from drives uploaded in the last 24 hours are never removed to make room for ordinary new footage. If the quota is full of footage this fresh, new uploads pause and resume once older footage rotates out. Protected footage from the camera’s incident folder is the one exception: it always gets in, because the camera keeps its protected files read-only.
• Removed clips are archived first. A drive’s clip only leaves storage once its archive has been saved. If the archive can’t be saved at that moment, the clip stays and the new upload waits.

The line “Oldest footage goes back to…” marks the oldest playable footage. When the bar is full, new uploads replace the oldest unlocked clips.

The archive

When the rolling window removes a clip, the drive it came from remains. The trip keeps its map, timing, and data, and plays from the archive. The archive keeps the drive until you delete it yourself.

See Protected and deleted clips for how to keep a clip in the high quality window.

The S3 mirror

A cloud device can also mirror uploads to your own S3-compatible bucket. The cloud stays the primary destination. The mirror only takes a copy. See S3 mirror storage for the setup and the dashkeep.dat rule.