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10tb setup help

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GerardoC

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i love reading up on yalls forum but never took the time to sign up untill now(help this poor fella out). I have a have a ip camera security system that im cookin up for my employer. We would like to have 10tb of storage to begin with and maybe add some more later on.

My questions are whats the best card to go with since it will be set up as JBOD.
Also we would like to use XP or win serv 2003 but can win xp handle that many hd's? or will i have to move on up to win serv 03? any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

case: rpc-3116ff
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OS: ?tbd?
HD: WD 1tb green
 
Supermicro SAT2
I would not recommend green drives for a business and I would recommend 2003 as your operating system, not XP.
 
what drives should i use? anything 1tb or more what would you suggest? thank you for your knowledge and support and quick reply!
 
more than 1tb you are pretty much limited with Seagate unless if you focus on the 2tb drives.



I would recommend the Seagate NS series or the WD RE series.
 
If you want more future expandability I would definitely go with the norco RPC-4020 especially since its basically the same price.
 
it will be a NVR that we test IP based megapixel cameras on. I have no real reason on why or why not to use a raid and never really thought of it.
 
with JOBD if one fails all the data is gone...

i would just have them as individual drives..... (maybe that is what you meant)


how many cameras and of what quality... 10TBs seem to be a lot
 
5MP res cameras made by arecont we will be testing a total of 16 cams and 5mp rez runnin @ 15 to 30fps and we will be adding more on as we go. These cams eat TB's for dinner if not tamed.....................and yes your right indiv drives sorry should have made myself clear:eek:
 
1. Consider a raid card for RAID5/6
2. Go with a server OS (Win2k3R2)
3. For video storage for your cameras I would suggest going with Enterprise level green drives.
 
GerardoC said:
5MP res cameras made by arecont we will be testing a total of 16 cams and 5mp rez runnin @ 15 to 30fps and we will be adding more on as we go. These cams eat TB's for dinner if not tamed.....................and yes your right indiv drives sorry should have made myself clear:eek:
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You will indeed get the best performance as individual drives.
A RAID 5 should be able to handle the 16 cam streams just fine, but I am not sure how it will scale as you add more cams past 50 or so.
 
100 cam setups are not as common but we do get one here and there and we want to benchmark some migh rez multi cam setups. Id like to thank yall for yalls input and answers! much appreciated.
 
Better security camera SW will do motion detection. therefore if no motion, very low storage rate (maybe 2 images per second)...if action, run at full speed. This saves a ton of space but does require a bit more CPU power.
 
Adidas4275 said:
with JOBD if one fails all the data is gone...

i would just have them as individual drives..... (maybe that is what you meant)
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That is what JBOD (just a bunch of disks...individuals) is. Striping (RAID 0) is what you're thinking of.

I'd recommend the WD RE3 drives and usage of a parity raid (I'd likely use 6 for that much data) if it's important to hold onto that much data (assuming it is).
 
You might want to take a look at unRAID as well, though it might not give the amount of performance that you need, it sure as hell offers a lot of flexibility for you to reach the coveted 10TB.
 
You're also going to need to take into consideration how long you want your footage to be online for, are you going to archive older footage, does it need to be color or bw. How many cameras you're going to need to scale to eventually, what codec you'll be using and so on. The nice thing about IP cams and a NVR setup is that it's really easy and relatively cheap to get into. The problem is if you don't plan it right it'll be an expensive upgrade if you want to add more cameras. You'll also want to consider getting high quality NICs as well to be able to handle the incoming streams. Getting good quality cameras can help alleviate storage needs. I would look for cameras that have a good quality while using H264 as their codec. This will help to alleviate some space and bandwidth requirements.
 
for the ppl who know about security cam software....this machine will be using aimetis software. We will be expirmenting with the H264 codec. As far as archive goes we will be setting the machine to only do a few weeks saved. The set up is really made for benchmarking all sorts of high res security cams @ diff compressions and frame rates. By the way we upgraded to theNORCO RPC-4020 4U for later expansion;).
 
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