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A switch is a switch folks. I have a pile of old Cisco catalyst 2960 fast ethernet boxes that will not handle H264 / H265 any better / worse than a $25 Trend Net. Switches don't give a damn about doing anything other than switching packets, and layer 2/3 doesn't apply to anything were discussing...

A local non profit has asked me to help with one or two IP cam installs, and given the president is a bit impulsive bought a couple 3mp hikvisions before even asking about how they were being installed. So, I'm a nice guy and offered to help out. Problem is they really have no PC on site to...

That's a nice machine that even used would costs more than $800 with that card. Xeon ES-1620 v3 is roughly equivelant to i7 4700, which is a pretty respectable CPU and overkill for Blue Iris. I run Blue Iris on a lot older Xeons, and while they lack Intel HA and CPU consumption/power...

You must be running one of those new fangled WD fuschia drives :-) Honestly, the worst USB2 externals I've run across could write at about 25MBps....quite adequate for handling 10mbps streams. Even a cheap USB3 enclosure should be able to to sustain at least 100MBps with a decent drive. Also...

Please provide me with evidence that using a WD drive of a specific color will die sooner if use in a particular iOPS scenario. Otherwise I'm going to take the side of most storage engineers on this matter and consider the power ranger color scheme as a bunch of marketing fluff designed to draw...

Back the NVR's up to the cloud since they are already connected via broadband and cut your losses (provided the NVR's have the capability to do this). This is how all the gated community security firms do it in my area. Backblaze and the like provide pretty cheap and reliable online storage. If...

I also use Meinberg - easy to set up and runs flawlessly. I installed on my 2008 server, pointed my cams at it, and done. Haven't worried about time in years. There's no way in hell I'm going to open my cams to the internet, even for time, and having a generic time server is useful for other...

Yeah...this...except I prefer small towers because they handle heat better than minis and are much easier to throw extra drives in. What I've learned about refurbs is to stick to corporate class desktops like Optiplex's, Precisions and HP's Prodesks etc because these are almost always bought...

250 is great....120 also works if the box is only running BI. One of my Win 8.1 BI machines consumes only like 21GB on the system drive after running a couple of years with service pack bloat as well. Picked up a 120GB Crucial at Best Buy for like $37 bucks on sale. Cloned the OS drive over in...

What's rather amusing is from Win7 onward Windows Desktop OS's make pretty good ad hoc servers. I've set up a lot of 2008 and 2012 servers and see zero difference in resources or performance with things like BI. Technically you aren't supposed to run Windows desktop OS's as servers because of...

I've got a dozen cams running off a friend's Xeon 1225 running pretty much constant recording. Maybe uses that old clunky processor at 25%. So, that i7-3770k is over kill...which is 'guy speak' means run and not walk to get it :-) A bit if a side bar here, but one reason I got out of consulting...

I'v used a lot of AMD production servers over the years, and from a relative standpoint I've found benchmark sites like CPUbenchmark to pretty darn close when it comes to determining relative value between the chips. Some specific tasks like H264 and SQL or gaming might lean more towards one vs...

RAID 0 will increase write speed by increasing spindles. However, if you lose either drive it's all gone. IMO if you're hitting a wall with a single spinner you might likely be hitting a wall with other resources. Onboard RAID controllers aren't exactly high performance anyways. I've worked in...

I have a mix of older axis and HVs, and audio only works on Axis...and badly. Doesn't work at all on the HVs, and my assumption was it was due to firmware not working on non US versions as per discussed in these forums. If I'm just stupid please tell me what options on the HVs need to be enabled...

I don't mind an external mic if they work better than integrated. Being able to hear conversations 10-15 feet away with good clarity is key. Still, specific model advice is needed.

While I don't specialize in security cameras I increasingly get IT clients wanting good audio capabilities for customer service areas. To add to the confusion we have different versions of Hikvision firmware, etc that have working/non working audio. I don't have time for that. I need suggestions...

Worked great. Slackers can't hide when I'm offsite now.

First server I ran BI on was a stock 1225, which is a slight step up from yours. I drank a few beers one night, got curious, and decided to stress the server. I found the Xeon 1225 could run about 15 cams at 1280x720x15 before the processors all started running over 80%. This is with encoding...

Oh, I have no problem paying $10. It's just with all the apps out there I wanted to get something that is verified 'works' and not pay a troll. I do get what you are saying though :-)

Currently running BI full and paid for at my warehouse and business. Works great! Got a dozen cams on it and my employees have never worked harder - haha! Problem is, mobile access, and I *HAVE* to get this working good on my mobile or I have to look at a different product. Oh, I can access it...