antonylord 0 Posted April 30, 2014 Time to put in a new system at work. We've got 29 analogue (non IP) cameras here and have been asked to keep a year's worth of footage (10fps, motion detect). The two options we're looking at are building a server chassis (probably running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials) with 10+ 4Tb drives (non-RAID SATA) and a couple of (Geovision*) cards in it. Other option is a smaller box with the cards in it storing to a (Synology) NAS unit. Former will obviously be a lot cheaper (especially if bays are not hot swap) and have a certain level of upgradability to it. Probably a nicer platform to export footage from. Latter will be marginally easier to increase capacity. Anything else I should be considering here? Thanks in advance! * We've had some Geovision systems in the past. Happy to use again unless someone can suggest why Aver might be a better option. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ssnapier 0 Posted April 30, 2014 I think you have a decent idea going there, but I would also look at something like Exacq (https://exacq.com/index.php). You could also look at maybe using Axis, Indigovision or Avigilon encoders to prep for an eventual IP transition but I have no idea what your budget is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
