Pearl Mini Internal (SD) Storage incrementing when not recording

I updated the firmware to the latest version (4.12.0l) and have a 32GB SD card loaded and external USB drive set up to automatically offload files. I tested everything and all appears to work, but within 20 min of formatting internal SD card and without capturing additional recordings, internal storage is down to 91% (2.54GB) and incrementing consistently at about 0.2GB per min. As this will be on standby for long periods, this is undesirable. I will get a 512GB SD card, but does anyone know how to prevent this?

Question withdrawn. I am new to this interface and didn’t realize that it had automatically started recording a 2nd channel in the background. That is what was incrementing the internal SD storage.