Hi there everyone
It has been suggested the perfect BI PC needs an SSD
However ?
BP2008's suggestion in another post makes sense to me.
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You don't need an SSD for the clips. Mechanical hard drives are a lot more cost-effective. Seagate SkyHawk or Western Digital Purple are designed specifically for surveillance video recording workloads.
You don't need an SSD for the OS either. SSDs mostly help with boot times and application start times, but that is inconsequential for an always-on Blue Iris server.
Blue Iris recommends putting its clip database on your fastest drive (e.g. SSD), but if I'm being honest I never notice a difference.
If you decide to put the OS + BI's clip database on an SSD anyway, 128GB will be more than large enough.
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so will 1 purple hd do the trick?
Thanks
Adam
It has been suggested the perfect BI PC needs an SSD
However ?
BP2008's suggestion in another post makes sense to me.
__________________________
You don't need an SSD for the clips. Mechanical hard drives are a lot more cost-effective. Seagate SkyHawk or Western Digital Purple are designed specifically for surveillance video recording workloads.
You don't need an SSD for the OS either. SSDs mostly help with boot times and application start times, but that is inconsequential for an always-on Blue Iris server.
Blue Iris recommends putting its clip database on your fastest drive (e.g. SSD), but if I'm being honest I never notice a difference.
If you decide to put the OS + BI's clip database on an SSD anyway, 128GB will be more than large enough.
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so will 1 purple hd do the trick?
Thanks
Adam