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    what's the best storage option for BI ZFS vs ISCSI vs same pc

    hello, im currently running BI on windows with 35 cams up to 50 soon, mostly 2mp IR. 8x 12tb drives, 6 cams per drive. was thinking of installing windows and truenas on VM like proxmox. ZFS raid of those 8x 12tb with some optane drives for fast metadata. (192BG ram system) would this setup make...
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    New BI PC Build w HDDs in RAID 1 (mirror) Redundancy

    After years of frustration with kludgy LTS/Hik NVRs, I'm finally abandoning ship for Blue Iris. Currently spec'ing out a high end PC for a build in early Jan. Will likely be Intel Core i7-14700K 3.4 GHz 20-Core based. I will probably 20 cams in total (mix of 8MP and 4MP). It will likely be in...
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    Refurbished old i5-2400 System for BI, Have HDD Questions

    I just refurbished an old i5-2400 system with the following spare parts i had and planning on 2-4 2MP PoE Cameras. Intel Core i5-2400 16GB of RAM 180GB SSD 2TB Storage (3x 1TB HDD of a iRST Raid 5) Win10 Pro 64bit RAID Supported MB Basically an old system I had laying around and spare 1TB...
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    Direct to disk questions

    I'm curious about the real world experience of those using this configuration since I've seen more than a few recommendations of using this to bring down CPU usage. What kind of I/O throughput didn't work for you and what did you do to fix it? Increase spindle count? Change raid type? Assuming...