We don't do anything related to streaming video. I would be interested
in anything you find out. We do have close circuit video security, but
it is outsourced and is expensive.
In case it is important, the external 4TB drives are Seagate. We only
buy things like this from Costco because we can get an instant cash back
in case of any issues without having to be concerned about the
manufacturer warranty and paying for return postage and hoping for a
solution. Costco is great for purchases like this. I don't have any
stock in Costco but I wish I did.
On 4/8/2014 2:10 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
We have 6 external 4TB drives on a Win7 computer that has 24gb
memory. No problem at all. Of course this creates 6 separate drives -
not sure about the NAS you are looking at. We find they run as fast
as the internal drive, at least for what we do - primary a backup for
all the computers on our network and 4 cloud servers. We got the
drives at Costco for about $149.95 each. If you don't have 6 USB3
ports you can use USB2 or get an expansion port device. For backing
up, we don't see a difference in USB2 vs USB3.
Thanks Kam!
I don't have the inside-the-box tech specs, but my guess is that these
video cameras open a file and write to it continuously until it
reaches a certain size, then they start writing over the beginning of
the file in a loop. As long as the starting point byte offset is kept
track of, you'd be able to climb in your "way back" machine and watch
video from whatever camera starting 30 days ago (which is my client's
goal.) So, I'm thinking they'll want one large image, via RAID array.
What makes this dicey is that they want to do this with 18
high-definition video streams. They're using a fairly aggressive
compression algorithm, but thirty days of 24x7 video stream x 18
cameras is still a lot of data!
Anyway, I put the entire system on its own subnet, both logically and
hardware, so I don't really care what they do with their electricity.
The company owner wants to be able to use it to deal with problems of
theft and employee malfeasance...although in past situations the video
capture has provided zilch benefit. (He had streaming video of an
employee carrying 5 60" TVs out of the warehouse after hours, and the
employee, although terminated, was able to win back pay for the time
between her termination and the trial date, and never paid a penny of
restitution. They even found the pawn shop the TVs were sold to and
got most of the TVs back, albeit damaged pretty bad. Ended up costing
him $50k in lawyer fees and other expenses, while the employee just
moved to another state and even used my client for a reference.)
Mike C
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