Thanks for the quick reply and I appreciate the advice, I'm familiar with networking, the networking part I should be ok with. Where I am confused is how the computer will accept the video, 26 cameras recording at 30fps at 3MP going into a single 10/1000 Nic, will it be sufficient, I'm assuming the server is also be compressing the video (am I correct) or does this compression take place at the camera? If the computer is doing the work is it the i5/i7 cpu? or do I need a card in the system to handle this compression. is a raid with redundancy normal practice for recording? Or do most systems setup with Raid0.
SO the router will be sending out ip addresses and connect my cameras to the internet for external viewing, is this commonly installed on a different subnet other than the office computers? Can this setup use Hikvision Cameras? If I were to use Blue Iris with motion detectors which you didn't suggest would this mean that in order to function correctly I would need (two) NVRS? possibly handling 13 cameras each? would the motion detection work then? Is this a good idea or better to create one powerful NVR?
Sorry I have so many questions but the answers are very helpful in pricing out the system, If Hikvision made an NVR to handle 26 cameras I would consider going that route but from what I see they don't unless you can stack 2 smaller systems together.
I'm waiting on a call back from their rep.
SO the router will be sending out ip addresses and connect my cameras to the internet for external viewing, is this commonly installed on a different subnet other than the office computers? Can this setup use Hikvision Cameras? If I were to use Blue Iris with motion detectors which you didn't suggest would this mean that in order to function correctly I would need (two) NVRS? possibly handling 13 cameras each? would the motion detection work then? Is this a good idea or better to create one powerful NVR?
Sorry I have so many questions but the answers are very helpful in pricing out the system, If Hikvision made an NVR to handle 26 cameras I would consider going that route but from what I see they don't unless you can stack 2 smaller systems together.
I'm waiting on a call back from their rep.