High disk usage

[Raylo32]

Not really troubleshooting, just a PC tech question. I have 6 cams recording to a WD Purple 24/7, CPU typically sits at 25% but disk sits at 85%. I am not planning to add more cams soon but if I did I might be maxing out the disc data path. Besides reducing resolution and frame rates is there another solution?

 

[Mike]

Are you using direct-to-disk? Check out the wiki article by @bp2008 Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage | IP Cam Talk

 

[gwminor48]

@Raylo32 are you talking about the percent of disk being written shown in task manager?

 

[crw030]

Unless that’s your Disk Idle % I don’t understand why it would be so high. Are you capturing 6 cams at high frames per second (say 15-20+)?

I want to say my purple HDs were testing 187 MB/s and direct to disk seems to consume about 1% (but my max FPS is 15), 85% sure seems high to me.

 

[looney2ns]

Make certain you have excluded Blue Iris from any antivirus software as per the BI help file.

 

[Raylo32]

Thanks for the replies... I'll look into this after the hellidays. BTW the disk usage % I am talking about is from the BI app or web UI. I haven't looked on the server PC task manager to see if it reports similar.

 

[Raylo32]

I just realized something by looking deeper into the UI3 settings. Disk usage here means space allocation, not disk read/write usage. D'ooohhh. That makes more sense.