Recent content by ipmania

If you're going to reuse old HDDs, it'd be wise to use them in this redundancy mode (RAID1). Hopefully, the NVR can alert you somehow that one of the HDDs had failed, otherwise, you won't be able to tell until the other drive fails and you'll still have data loss on your hands.

From my own anecdotal experience (which is woefully out of date), HDD failures are infrequent and have the highest chance (still very small) at the beginning of their lives. If they survive an initial period, they will likely survive for years. As they age, as with all mechanical things, the...

I have found that SD cards have come down in price so much over the years that, for me, they are a bargain even for the large ones. So in my photography hobby, I have settled on 256GB cards. I have a variety of them split between 2 brands: Samsung and Sandisk and so far, they have held up...

Will do. I've learned lots already. I started out with a 6-camera NVR system from a big-box store and returned it because of how unimpressive it was. (It had all the buzzwords, like 4K, face recognition, email alerting, etc.) but at night, on our driveway, it couldn't realistically let me...

Thanks for that. Will investigate further. I'm fairly familiar with digital photography and what you've said here has links to what I am familiar with in that arena. In photography, many people have to wrestle with the dilemma of shutter speed vs ISO noise when light gets low. I'm in the...

I remember people disparaging the WD Green series as "low performance". And that was 12 years ago! I actually liked them as they, being low power, were also low-noise. They only ran at 5400 rpm and are nearly silent compared to enterprise 7200 and 10,000 rpm screamers. The greens were also...

Guilty as charged, though I've enjoyed reading lots on this forum. For a beginner, the help file starts quickly getting into the weeds and I'm not quite able to understand everything yet. Just having fun with all the cameras at the moment. Thanks for the note to change the algorithm to...

Thanks for the tips. I'm just a noob. I will investigate the use of smaller numbers for the object size and contrast, etc. Re: IVS. How much of a noob am I, you ask? I don't yet know what "IVS" stands for... :blankstare: But I do have a vague sense that it refers to crossing lines or...

I've been tormenting my wife with footage of her comings and goings, startling her at the door with a greeting using the intercom before she sticks in the key because I happened to see her on the live view, etc. I'm not sure whether I'm helping or hurting my cause!

I have been doing lots of reading here but I had not done a specific search on 24x7 recording. In fact, you were the person I referred to when I said that a kind member suggested 24x7 recording to capture data in case of missed camera events. I have seen some references to 24x7 in my travels...

I asked that question in another thread just now (I should have asked about that first). :) This thread was more about the philosophy of 24x7 recording and how people approach this.

So this morning when my neighbour slipped out of his house at an unholy hour (5:52am--I'm still sound asleep!), my 5442 IDENTIFY camera missed it. I know of it because my OBSERVATION (overview) 5442 caught him. I am thinking that this is because the path my neighbour takes to his car is on the...

Before I go down the wrong path on 24x7 recording, I'd like to ask what people's thoughts are on this topic. I was thinking of doing this but today I was spurred on because my front IDENTIFY camera didn't catch some motion and thus didn't catch my neighbor nor his car leaving, even though my...

Yes, this. I am glad I forked out the extra for the varifocal version of the Andy 5442. My IDENTIFY cam on the back gate is at max zoom because the camera is on the railing of my back porch, some distance from the gate.

Yes, I'm finding that the tiny little HP is holding its own with several cameras. As you say, I'm not pushing it very hard, having learned many valuable lessons here on the forum (e.g. I'm running my cameras at only 10fps and I feel it's good enough). Currently, no AI usage. So the PC is...