A 2-3TB HD should be all you need for over 30 days of storage with motion-based recording... Put the triggers to be sensitive, there is no reason to be recording when absolutely nothing changes on screen.
------Original Message------ From: Nate Burke Sender: Af To: Animal Farm ReplyTo: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Large Single Volume Data Storage Options Sent: Jul 14, 2015 12:27 PM I'm getting ready to install a 20+ camera system for a customer that want's 9-5 Full Time Recording with 30 days storage. So he can go back and check work comp cases to see if employees were really hurt on the job. My Calcs come in at needing around 4-5tb of storage to accomplish this, so I'd like the server to have 6-8tb of storage for some overhead. Rather than building out a server with a bunch of drive bays, RAID Card and mirroring/striping drives etc, I was wondering if anyone has used an External JBOD enclosure for this? I'm thinking like a DROBO unit or similar. Any Caveats to watch out for? Is there too much disk IO to have this work well over a LAN, USB 3.0, or Thunderbolt connection? What other (Affordable) options am I missing to get a bunch of storage in a single volume for the NVR? Nate
