So far, after swapping the Tenda switch with the Netgear I have had zero drops!! Thanks so much for your help in this! I feel pretty good that this issue is finally solved.
Ok, I just now swapped out the Tenda switch with a Netgear ProSafe 8 Port Gigabit Switch Model GS108. I will check it again in a few hours and see if that did the trick or not.
Most of the cameras are 5MP, a couple are 8MP. They only record high rez during motion. I do have sub-streams running...
about 1/2 the cameras are directly plugged into a 48 port POE Gigabit switch Cisco (claims 800W) WS-C3750E-48PD-SF
the other 1/2 are plugged directly into a Mokerlink 24 Port POE Gigabit Switch (claims 400W)...
I have 54 cameras on my Blue Iris setup. I have been fighting "network retry" and "signal restore" on all 54 cameras (multiple brands and models) for a year or more. Averaging just under 3,000 "Signal: network retry" in the log each day which averages out to about 55 times per camera per day)...
I am fine with rebuilding the storage pool with resiliency. That would take care of the concern of a drive failing. But I don't want to do that if Blue Iris is still going to report storage usage incorrectly.
Ok, so I have changed my settings as follows:
1 - Verified system restore is turned off on storage drive, but remains on for drive C: only.
2 - Changed the Blue Iris NEW folder to 47TB and the setting to "Delete".
3 - Changed the Blue IRIS SAVED folder to 1GB since I won't be using it anyway...
Does Blue Iris have a limit on how big of a hard drive you can allocate?
I am saving my clips to a drive that has 52.7TB total capacity.
I am doing this using Microsoft Windows' built-in storage pool feature.
I want to keep 30TB in the NEW folder and 25TB in the SAVED folder.
Version: Release...
I am thinking this many 5MP cameras will be a bit much for a PC and Blue Iris. But maybe I am wrong.
There will be at least 3 or 4 separate people remote viewing the cameras most of the time.
We have access to a currently unused dual XEON E5-2678 v3 server with 80GB RAM. I guess we could use...