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Best Storage Solution For Video Surveillance System?

we have a surveillance system of 36 cameras that record on motion, the problem here that we want to have a copy of daily recorded videos, the size of a daily video is about 100 GB, what is the best solution to keep it, IE: tape drive, Big DVD,...?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I would say a 1000gig / 1TB hard drive

    Then also burn what you need on to a dual layer dvd disk.

    100gig a day is a lot. Is there no way you could compress the files or quality.

    Dvd quality usualy records at 4gig per 120mins.

    If you compressed it to vhs quality then you should fit more on any disk.

    On TV dvd recorders theres HQ SP LP ESP which compess the video quality without much loss in quality

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The only way you could realistically keep it these days is to have several terabytes of storage space. This is relatively cheap now though. Get yourself a good SAN solution and sleep peacefully.

    It entirely depends upon how much history you need to keep available.

    I have about the same number of cameras, though I only take one or two frames per second, 365 days a year. I do 24 frames a second only out of hours and only on motion. I have a few years worth of storage on a handful of 250 gigabyte hard drives.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    HD DVD

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