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I have a few questions. I have a CCTV system based on 11 IP cameras and a video recording software. currently the PC being used to record has 350Gb but I have the feeling that it is not enough. all cameras record on motion detection except two. what storage capacity would be optimum to have at least 2 weeks of recordings? What is the best medium to backup recordings. format recorded is .jmpeg What is the recomended frame rate, resolution and image quality? Thanks

Thanks VST_Man, some usefull information here.

Recently I was given the task to improve the CCTV system that is currently in place where I work (warehouse). It consists of 11 IP cameras and a Software suite for monitoring and recording purposes. The biggest issue I have at the moment is that all these cameras don't have any IR assistance for dark situations. Due to budget problems I am being forced to look for alternatives other than replacing the existing cameras with night enabled ones. The cameras are Trendware TV-IP100 and TV-IP100w. I know they are sensitive to some extent to IR light so my first thought for solving this is using IR illuminators to enable the cameras to "see" at night and enable them to recognize movement and stop them from recording all night long because of noisy dark images. Will the IR illuminators be enough or am I going in the wrong direction? Thanks for your help!!!

If I can't use IR, what other option do I have? The easy way is to leave the lights on, but this raises some concerns regarding electric bills. My issue here is that at night the cameras instead of producing a uniform (steady) dark image, they produce a blurry dark image full of "moving" noise, this causes the software to identify this as movement and spends all night recording useless images. If you have any suggestions I'd appreciate them very much.