gatorguy

That's a very helpful reply and gives me some good direction to continue my reading and research. Thank you for taking the time to post that info!

I read the OP and am in a VERY similar situation, so I didn't want to start a new thread. In fact, I'd say take exactly what the OP said and change only following items. My three main questions are in bold below: I only need one camera (maybe 1 more in the future). I don't care to store offsite. I would like to store to my 12TB NAS running the unRAID OS (http://lime-technology.com). I can do FTP, NFS or SMB. I have no problem hard wiring camera (and prefer to versus wifi). I'm more a quality over quantitiy guy, but obviously, I want to pay only what is necessary to do the listed tasks. I would hope to keep it under, say $200-250 for one camera. I guess after my many hours of reading/research, I'm leaning towards the Hikvision DS-2CD2032. Is there an obviously better choice I'm overlooking? Are these Swanns from Costco the exact same model (obviously re-branded)? https://www.costco.com/Swann-HD-1080p-NVR-IP-Add-on-Bullet-Camera-2-pk.product.100039914.html Finally, if the linked Swanns are in fact the same as the DS-2CD2032, will the interface look the same as seen on blogs such as buellwinkle's? Thanks in advance for your patience, answers and constructive advice!