Yeah I'm going to test it out with the current build that I have and get one of the WD purples so I'm not just using the 4tb that's inside the NVR my cameras came with.
Most of the cost of the build is 4 14tb WD purple drives.
Plus with the cameras I have now it seems that it would already be close to what the 9900k can do since it's 10 4k cameras.
Okay okay. I think I understand it a lot more now. If I'm understanding this it seems like I might not need something more powerful than the 9900k or maybe if I'm lucky I won't need a 9900k at all.
I was sitting here while waiting for your replies and doing research on what you were telling me...
So with this "Blue Iris always records the main stream to the disk. No extra CPU is required for this as there is no decoding involved. "
If I'm not actively viewing the cameras than the cpu usage would not be much of an issue or do I misunderstand?
So, just to clerify. With the substream it wouldn't be recording at 4k until it detected motion and once it detected motion it would start recording in 4k? Or would it always be recording in 4k but just wouldn't show the 4k on the monitor unless motion is detected?
So I will need the I9-9900k than is what you are saying correct? If a 9900k ended up not being enough what would I want to go with? I can't seem to find anything that tells me roughly how much a CPU would be able to handle for cameras.
Also what does the substream do? I looked around a bit but...
Well currently I only have 8 of the cameras and the other two should be on their way. After looking around my house I am thinking I will only need 2 more cameras of the same type and one decentish one. So 12 of the 8mp ones.