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Good deal if you're looking for a slim BI machine. i7 CPU, 8GB Ram, 250gb Boot Drive. Replace with a bigger drive it take out the CD drive and add a 4TB+ drive. Dell Optiplex 790 DT Desktop i7-2600 3.4Ghz Quad 8GB DDR3 250gb Windows 10 | eBay

Go Purple if you can. Hardware is the same but the firmware is better tuned for multiple recording streams and to ignore most single bit errors.

Blue Iris is a full featured NVR software, but if you enable direct-to-disk recording and just use continuous recording mode it should use very little in the way of resources.

Greens were discontinued because the market segment for those drives just don't exists any more. Greens made sense in the earlier days when you'd have a modest collection of local music, movies and media. Now, you have pressures on both ends. Most of our media has moved on to the cloud for...

Xeon version of the Proliant server went on sale for $285 if you need a bit more oomph. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=2NS-0006-0J3V0&Tpk=2NS-0006-0J3V0

Just a couple things to clear up coming from a WD employee. The WD/Hitachi merger was on hold fora few years due to China regulations and it wasn't until a few months ago that both companies got the go-ahead to begin the merger process. Hitachi has and still makes all their own drives (and...

If you're building a system you can also look into the S and T series of CPUs. Slightly lower clock speeds but improved power consumption. http://www.anandtech.com/show/8774/intel-haswell-low-power-cpu-review-core-i3-4130t-i5-4570s-and-i7-4790s-tested

Newegg has two desktop server that would make a great NVR for BI or any other NVR software you want. Just add hard drives HP ProLiant ML10 v2 Tower Server System i3-4150 3.5 GHz 4 GB RAM - $189 Intel Core i3-4150 4 GB 2Rx8 PC3-12800E-11 Kit 4 x LFF NHP Drive Cage 350W Power Supply Good for...

Did a ton of troubleshooting this weekend. Took the camera down, messed with the cabling, tried a bunch of different things, still stuttering under certain conditions. I had another Hikvision dome that I planned on hooking up this weekend and decided to do a comparison. Put the Hikvision in...

Thanks fenderman. I've reset the camera multiple times already and dropped framerates all the way to 10 and I just can't get this stuttering to go away. I've done landscape too and it's the same thing. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's the camera somehow. I bought it used from eBay and I'm...

Nevermind, it's still happening, I give up

I finally fixed it. Unfortunately, I did 3 things at once so I'm not positive what was the actual fix. Uninstalled and reinstalled BI Replaced drive pool with a new, dedicated WD Purple drive Changed the camera profile in BI from "Dahua" to "Generic" I don't think reinstalling BI fixed it...

No, no stuttering when viewing live. Also no stuttering when using the SmartPSS/PC-NVR software to record (just tried it last night). It seems to exclusively be a BI issue with this single camera. I don't use IR because I have enough light at night to run in color all the time.

Recording to AVI.

Spoke too soon, still happening on .mp4 files as well. :( No snapshots, tried multiple internal drives. None of the other cameras have issues, even with snapshots enabled (they're disabled for now) I read your second link earlier, there's no real information in there that applies to my case...