HDD space needed for recordings?

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JimS
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HDD space needed for recordings?

Post by JimS »

Needing to increase my storage and looking to get some estimate of what is appropriate. I have 3 network cams now and don't want to be too tight so entered 4 in the calculator here:
https://www.seagate.com/video-storage-calculator/
Other entries:
Frames/sec: 8
Hours per day: 4
Number of days: 21
Resolution: 1080p
Wasn't sure what to put for video quality so selected medium
Result was much different for mjpg than H.264
MJPG: 2.5 TB
H.264: 121 GB

Don't really understand the details or which I should be looking at. I will be doing motion detection and only recording motion events although I still need to do some tuning to get that working better.
Magic919
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Re: HDD space needed for recordings?

Post by Magic919 »

I expect you'll be storing H.264 in MP4 and maybe some analysis JPEGs.

I'm presuming you have some idea of what it's currently consuming. Otherwise just go for at least 1TB.
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dougmccrary
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Location: San Diego

Re: HDD space needed for recordings?

Post by dougmccrary »

Or even 500GiB. Those are really cheap.
A lot depends on what frame rate you use.
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