Hello I'm new here. Since my house breakin a few months ago, I've been slowly building a camera system; learning as I go. I have 3 wireless cameras setup. Suffered the insanity of many software clients before exploring
Blue Iris Trial. So I've purchased a full license plus the Android app and all is going pretty smooth. But I need to secure my system better. Currently I am recording my clips to the pc hard drive. More specifically to Google drive. I did a test where I triggered a camera and it took near 5 min for google drive to transfer that 30 sec clip safely to the Cloud. That's not to secure. A thief could have my pc pulled offline by that time. So I was considering a NAS and hiding it in the crawl space. But today I was looking at upgrading my router and noticed you can get them with USB3 (or2) out the back. So I was considering buying a 1 Terabyte USB drive and cabling it through the wall from the router into the crawl space. USB 3 has a cable limit of 3 meters but if you think USB 2 is fast enough, it has a limit of 5 meters. Anyhow what do you think folks?
You need to give a little more information than that as to what brand cameras you have what.
What you are looking to achieve.
Are you wanting to record 24/7 or just motion
How long do you need storage for?
Are you set on the pc for the nvr or willing to go for a dedicated nvr
The best piece of advice I can give you is to stick to the same brand and nvr if that's the route you end up going.
Also I wouldn't trust my house security system on a wireless system there are too many risks and too many variables.
Hard wired everytime!!!
For the sake of a few hours work neatly running cables for the piece of mind is worth it for me.
Also keep it simple don't go to silly extremes you don't need.
There are some very good inexpensive cameras around
Hikvision and the Huisun cameras are a particular favourite and the Huisun cameras work seamlessly with hikvision equipment.
The bottom line is equipment however expensive or inexpensive will eventually fail at some point in life be it 10 years or 100 years so don't introduce that much equipment that makes even more points in the system it could fail.
Please please please research the products you intend to buy and ask as many questions as you can first hand experience and reviews are better than a tech sheet full of numbers