Intellex is slowly dying-soon to build new pc based system

[MrBostn 0]

Hi,

 

New to the dvr world but experienced building systems. System is for apartment building.

 

Anyway-we're going to reuse the current 16 analog cameras-just replace the Intellex LT.

 

Looking for card that provides best quality (D1?) Can spend $1200-ish on card alone.

 

Motherboard will be Supermicro (CPU type TBD) maybe. sandy bridge.

16GB ram

2 AV-25 WD 160GB drives for the OS (win7 64)

5 WD Black 2GB drives in Raid 5 (need advice on raid for DVR's)

Hardware based raid card (TBD)

 

Geovision or Nuuo card -Advice needed.

 

Thank you,

 

Scott

[Go3Team 0]

Hi,

 

5 WD Black 2GB drives in Raid 5 (need advice on raid for DVR's)

 

I'm running 20 WD Black 1TB in RAID6 for a video server. It's a software RAID - MDADM. It's worked great for me, although, from what I understand, that depending on the type of RAID (software or hardware) you might have a problem with TLER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery) that the non RE drives dont have.

 

Check the reviews on for more info on the drive you eventually pick.