spudnz 0 Posted October 9, 2014 Hi, I'm new to this but very keen to learn and set up a home monitoring set-up with IP cameras. My question is this - with IP cameras do you need surveillance software running on your PC 24/7 or can you get the camera to write directly to a NAS drive, which I have in a remote location along with the modem/router. I'm thinking that if someone breaks in and steals or disables the PC it would be good to have the camera still capturing video. I have just got my hands on a hikvision ds-2cd2432f-iw indoor camera (whick looks great so far) Thanks Nick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyJoey 0 Posted October 9, 2014 It can be recorded both ways, both to a PC's software AND to a NAS. A hikvision NVR can be configured to store the data on both its internal HD and on an external NAS, which gives you redundancy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Digiscan 0 Posted October 9, 2014 I addressed this issue on my hikvisions by having them write to windows share drives on a PC that's on 24/7, but also drop files via FTP to a USB flash drive using the storage on my router via a USB extension that leads to a location hard to get to/find. The problem with those cameras is they stupidly deposit all files to the same directory, and thousands of files in one folder become very problematic, so I wrote a small windows utility on that primary PC that shuffles files around to different folders. If the PC shuts down, though, it doesn't much matter; the files are still being written to the flash drive in any case--just not in the subfolders I like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
