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    How to keep an 'always on' BI PC safe

    Hi all, A small concern I have with the PC with BI setup is the fact that it obviously needs to be on 24/7. Some people will have this PC on a desk in the house somewhere, others will have it stored in a dedicated cabinet/storage space where other equipment and cables live. I'm just wondering...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    OK thanks. Glad I asked about the additional HD bay otherwise I was close to plumping for one of the Optiplex PCs!
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    Apart from the HP EliteDesk and Dell Optiplex PCs are there any others ppl have had good experiences with?
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    OK thanks. I'll do some research...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    So any EliteDesk or ProDesk PC will have two? Or do I need to look for tower variants? The ones I've been watching on eBay are small form factor EliteDesk PCs.
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    Hmm, I've been looking at the business class desktops like the HP EliteDesk and Dell Optiplex suggested in the wiki. Not sure about the Optiplex but the EliteDesk 800 G2 which has all the right specs can only hold one HD. Are there tower versions of these PCs I need to be looking at instead?
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    Oh OK. Yea I felt 2 weeks would be fine for me so no issues with not being able to keep recordings farther back than that. And actually, I was estimating based on continuous recording previously because I was going down the NVR route. Now that I'm going down the PC route, I understand the...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    When I did the calculations I based them on each camera using about 5 Mbps (H.265 compression) and having 4 cameras. That was giving me about 2.5 weeks worth of recordings per camera on a 4TB hard drive. So when you say 4tb won't be enough do you mean I don't really have much room to increase...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    One other thing - with the PC, I'm planning to buy a 4TB WD Purple hard drive. Based on all the posts I've read here and calculations, that capacity should suffice (at least initially) with 4 cameras recording at a sensible frame rate and bitrate. If in future I want to add another 4TB hard...
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    What do I need to do for a proper install?

    Thanks. I think that makes sense. So the camera has some holes I can use to fix it to the junction box? Or do I need to drill them myself?
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    What do I need to do for a proper install?

    OK this makes sense because I'll be running the cable along the wall to the camera location. So the way I see it, the cable runs to the camera location/junction box in a conduit. I then roll up all the extra cable into the junction box and the junction box will have a hole for me to feed the end...
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    What do I need to do for a proper install?

    So I do still need the wall mount for the camera I'm going to buy? Just that I'd mount that on the junction box instead of the wall and fix the junction box to the wall?
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    What do I need to do for a proper install?

    I still need to buy the wall mount for the Dahua camera right? Would the wall mount fix on top of the junction box or would the junction box go near the csemra?
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    Thank you! I'll have a look for those YouTube tutorials and the Android app...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    I've pretty much decided I'm going to go down the PC with BI route. Although I wasn't keen on it initially its just got so much more going for it over the NVR option. But yea, I'll probably borrow a keyboard, mouse and screen for setup and then remote onto it for management once everything is...
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    This has been a really useful thread. Don't know what I would do without all the guidance! Out of interest, if I want to get the cameras setup before I've got the PC going, how would I view their live streams to determine their best position and lens settings?
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    What do I need to do for a proper install?

    Gotcha. I will also likely have extra cable after I've run it to the camera location so I'll need to use one of those boxes. What are they called?
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    NVR vs dedicated PC

    Thanks.
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