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That is solid advice. All of my NVMe drives have full-drive Bitlocker enabled, so I'm more willing to return them for warranty service. I was able to go with 256-AES and not take much of a performance hit on the MP600 due to the PCIe 4.0 interface. I have some drives that do not have FDE...

The endurance is advertised as 3600 TBW. If my drive craps out 2 years into the 5 year warranty at only 1000 TBW (with a 3600 TBW advertised endurance), then why would they not honor the warranty?

I am at 245 TBW on my 2TB MP600, and CrystalDiskInfo is reporting 77% remaining life. Kind of disappointing, but the upside is that if it continues to maintain this trajectory, it will easily burn out before the 5 year mark and Corsair will just send me a new one under warranty. Win/Win. ETA...

An NVMe drive blows away a spinner in every category except for write endurance (and capacity to $$$ ratio). Exponentially more IOPS, and near zero latency. I had 40+ streams writing to a single NVMe drive and the disk queue length was something like 0.09. Basically a rounding error in terms of...

If you don't care about resiliency, use Windows Storage Spaces and create a simple storage space with your two drives. I don't believe the disk management spanning feature supports TRIM, but Storage Spaces does. You can also enable bitlocker on a storage space if you so choose, something else I...

Forgot that some of them have 3 year warranties and some of them have 5 year ones. All of my Skyhawk AI and Exos drives came in plain brown boxes. They were OEM/bulk drives. As long as they show up valid in the Seagate warranty checker, you're good. One other way to see if it is a return is to...

From my research, the ST16000VE002 and ST16000VE000 are the same drive, just different release years. The VE002 appears to be older (circa 2020). If you look at the release years for the corresponding drive datasheets, you will see they have different timestamps, but the specs are largely the...

Got my NVMe drives installed, restructured my storage strategy, and was able to put my setup through the wringer. Went with two of the Corsair MP600 NVMe drives (to help level the wear from writes) which offload to their own RAID 10 arrays when they fill up. I get about 2 days worth of footage...

NVMe drives have come a long way, endurance-wise. I have a 2TB NVMe drive with a 3600 TBW endurance rating. The warranty will expire before it hits the guaranteed TBW for me. New clips are written to the NVMe drive, then offloaded to spinners for retention purposes. As bp2008 mentioned in a...

This. You typically want VPN traffic to terminate at your network perimeter. Additionally, most routers are usually inherently more stable (linux-based, and don't have a lot going on, complexity-wise, in relation to a PC). I usually bring my router offline every couple of months in order to do...

Pretty much. I have been using ASUS routers with Merlin FW for a long time now. My router can support 2 simultaneous OpenVPN servers. Whatever you get, be sure to get one that has AES-NI to speed up the crypto. This link will guide you through setting up your own CA and generating certs...

This is the way. Especially if you want to use PKI. If you have a router that can support an OpenVPN server, it should be pretty straightforward. An advantage over using a 'secure' port forwarding setup exclusive to the BI web server, is that not only can you check your cameras while you are...

Glad I stumbled upon this. My timeline view has been pathetically slow. Thanks for the great idea! Consumer-grade SSD's have been greatly increasing in write endurance. I just ordered a brand new 2 TB Corsair Force MP600 PCIe 4.0 SSD for $200. 3600 TBW endurance and a 5 year warranty. If the...

26 cams in total. Most are Dahua 4k cams. My throughput used to be higher, but I had to lower the FPS and bitrate on them because something wasn't playing nice between the cams, BI, and Deepstack. I was getting constant crashes in BI. After toning it down some on the camera settings, everything...

You are definitely right. I took that into account when upgrading my primary switch. My aggregate IP camera throughput is about 250 Mbps, but the IP cameras are pretty evenly spread out amongst the smaller access switches that are throughout the house, which are all gigabit (so figure about ~50...

Thank you for the clarity. I have a managed switch as my home distribution switch, but a bunch of smaller 4-8 port PoE unmanaged switches spread throughout. I'll eventually get around to upgrading everything to have proper VLAN separation, but I figured logically everything should still be...

Can someone smarter than me explain why a separate, isolated switch is needed for the cameras? On a flat L2 network, if the isolated NIC has no default gateway (and is on a separate subnet), and all of the cameras follow suit, how would traffic be able to escape? When the isolated NIC and IP...

You are having kind of the opposite problem that I am. I had 64 GB RAM (3600 MHz, non-ECC) for the past 2 years, and BI would hover somewhere around 20-25 GB memory utilization. I upgraded to 128 GB ECC RAM (3200 MHz), and now it only uses 3-5 GB. Double the memory, and the the utilization is a...

One of the temp files Deepstack generated on my BI PC (AppData\Local\Temp\Deepstack) was marked as severe, and was automatically removed by Windows Defender, tagging it as Trojan:Script/Oneeva.A!ml Don't see how it could have been anything other than a false positive. It says the affected item...

I tried running Deepstack in Docker Desktop (in tandem with Deepstack GPU for Windows) with the "--gpus X" option to force it to use the other GPU, and it just launches on the GPU that the Windows version uses.

No worries. I had problems with the differentiation until my 30's. Hah. Thanks for the feedback. Adding an RTX 3080 to supplement the RTX 2060 that is in there. Will be interesting to see how they work together.

I am about to add a second NVIDIA GPU to my Blue Iris Windows 10 PC. The GPU that is currently in there is handling Deepstack. How does Deepstack treat a PC that has two discrete GPU's? Does it share the load? Is there a way to specify which GPU (or both) for Deepstack to utilize?

Is there any way to make the blue title bar smaller on 5.5.x.x? I upgraded from 5.4.9.18 and they are at least twice as thick with the new version. I like having the names and status on each camera with the bar, but those huge ones on 25+ cameras are obnoxious.

Running 4x4TB WD Purples in a Raid 0 for the indoor/less important cameras where it wouldn't hurt much to lose footage. 6x12 TB Seagate Skyhawk AI's in a RAID 10 for the important stuff. Continuous recording. The Purples have been going strong for many years now (I think about 5 years?) with no...

For the first time since I've built my new BI PC, I had to convert/export a large clip. I noticed that it takes forever, but none of my components are being taxed at all. I have a Threadripper 3970x, 64 GB DDR4 quad-channel RAM, and dual RTX 2060's. I tried playing around with the settings (HW...

I have been encountering the same issue. BI Support says this: "Please disable hardware encoding on the camera settings / record / format / recording 0 page. Either it's not compatible or you've exceeded the number of streams it can handle." I am using direct to disk for everything. I didn't...

Thank you for this! I have a bunch of Dahua cams that would always be a PITA to reset bitrate after taking a power hit. After reading your post, I made a python script and have it executing daily via task scheduler. Works like a charm.

As a 3970x owner who just got substreams configured, I can unfortunately vouch to this. Kind of a waste of a build now.

Andy got me all taken care of. Another reason why the overwhelming majority of my cams are from Andy. Great support, as usual!

I have two of them, and I bought both of them from Andy. One of them is the Dahua branded one, the other one is a 'Loryta' model. I just checked the older Dahua branded one, and it doesn't have it either. Ironically enough, the Amazon page for the 'Loryta' camera has a step by step configuration...