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IP Security Camera Server Hard Drives

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I have a question for the guru's here. We are putting in 16 IP camera's at a remote location, so I need to setup a server. The vendor quoted us a server from ExactQ, which appears really over priced. It also has a single WD Enterprise class 2 TB hard drive. I was thinking of putting in a 2 TB RAID array instead, and leave the OS on its own 250 GB hard drive. If I save data to the RAID instead of a single drive, is there anything I should be aware for read/write speeds? Any particular RAID configuration that you would recommend for this application?

Data is not super critical. We only keep 7-days of data at a time, and would only need to look at it in case of employee/customer injury, theft, vehicle accident in the yard, etc...
 
I think you need to know if the amount of data being recorded can be transmitted to the hard drive fast enough.

It may be possible to record 16 cameras to 1 hard drive or to set the system up to record 8 on each of 2 drives. Either might be a better situation than RAID. It makes it easier to pull out hard drives for evidence of activities.
 
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