I plan to have around 10 security cameras running 24/7 720p - 3mp currently. I already have I believe 6 cameras.
I was thinking of 2 things:
1- Motion sense only. BUT, we live rural and have tall trees so any wind = recording.
2- Recording and keeping 36 hours of 'records' or up to 25% of HD space.
Questions/Concerns
0. Has anyone done #1 or #2 above, experiences? Data generated per-day from 10x 3mp cameras? (Assuming I upgrade)
1. Do I want to be recording constantly to my storage/media streaming RAID-z2 pool?
Probably not... probably should record to a mirrored set of smaller drives so I'm not streaming, and recording 6+ streams to the same pool.
1b. With that said; would I be better off doing 2x1TB for 3 cameras, 2x1TB for 3 Cameras, etc, or just 1 'stream/camera recording pool'? (Those #s were random, I'm not sure the bandwidth req. yet I haven't checked.)
2. Has anyone done a 2ndary network for their security cameras? I'm going to guess if you're not recording ALL 10 3mp cameras at once at 30fps it won't matter.
H.264 6 Cameras 10FPS Recording 24Hours 3MP each 64KB Frame Size 2 Day of Storage
Bandwidth: 30.7 Mbps
AVG Per-Camera: 5.1
Storage Per-Day: 331.8 GB
10 cameras:
Bandwidth: 51.2 Mbps
Storage Per-Day: 1.1TB
Probably just use 2TB RE x 2 in RAID1 as I don't think it will actually record 24/7, and the file sizes should shrink when it's pitch black with no IR illumination.
I was thinking of 2 things:
1- Motion sense only. BUT, we live rural and have tall trees so any wind = recording.
2- Recording and keeping 36 hours of 'records' or up to 25% of HD space.
Questions/Concerns
0. Has anyone done #1 or #2 above, experiences? Data generated per-day from 10x 3mp cameras? (Assuming I upgrade)
1. Do I want to be recording constantly to my storage/media streaming RAID-z2 pool?
Probably not... probably should record to a mirrored set of smaller drives so I'm not streaming, and recording 6+ streams to the same pool.
1b. With that said; would I be better off doing 2x1TB for 3 cameras, 2x1TB for 3 Cameras, etc, or just 1 'stream/camera recording pool'? (Those #s were random, I'm not sure the bandwidth req. yet I haven't checked.)
2. Has anyone done a 2ndary network for their security cameras? I'm going to guess if you're not recording ALL 10 3mp cameras at once at 30fps it won't matter.
H.264 6 Cameras 10FPS Recording 24Hours 3MP each 64KB Frame Size 2 Day of Storage
Bandwidth: 30.7 Mbps
AVG Per-Camera: 5.1
Storage Per-Day: 331.8 GB
10 cameras:
Bandwidth: 51.2 Mbps
Storage Per-Day: 1.1TB
Probably just use 2TB RE x 2 in RAID1 as I don't think it will actually record 24/7, and the file sizes should shrink when it's pitch black with no IR illumination.