Recent content by mrc545

That is solid advice. All of my NVMe drives have full-drive Bitlocker enabled, so I'm more willing to return them for warranty service. I was able to go with 256-AES and not take much of a performance hit on the MP600 due to the PCIe 4.0 interface. I have some drives that do not have FDE...

The endurance is advertised as 3600 TBW. If my drive craps out 2 years into the 5 year warranty at only 1000 TBW (with a 3600 TBW advertised endurance), then why would they not honor the warranty?

I am at 245 TBW on my 2TB MP600, and CrystalDiskInfo is reporting 77% remaining life. Kind of disappointing, but the upside is that if it continues to maintain this trajectory, it will easily burn out before the 5 year mark and Corsair will just send me a new one under warranty. Win/Win. ETA...

An NVMe drive blows away a spinner in every category except for write endurance (and capacity to $$$ ratio). Exponentially more IOPS, and near zero latency. I had 40+ streams writing to a single NVMe drive and the disk queue length was something like 0.09. Basically a rounding error in terms of...

If you don't care about resiliency, use Windows Storage Spaces and create a simple storage space with your two drives. I don't believe the disk management spanning feature supports TRIM, but Storage Spaces does. You can also enable bitlocker on a storage space if you so choose, something else I...

Forgot that some of them have 3 year warranties and some of them have 5 year ones. All of my Skyhawk AI and Exos drives came in plain brown boxes. They were OEM/bulk drives. As long as they show up valid in the Seagate warranty checker, you're good. One other way to see if it is a return is to...

From my research, the ST16000VE002 and ST16000VE000 are the same drive, just different release years. The VE002 appears to be older (circa 2020). If you look at the release years for the corresponding drive datasheets, you will see they have different timestamps, but the specs are largely the...

Got my NVMe drives installed, restructured my storage strategy, and was able to put my setup through the wringer. Went with two of the Corsair MP600 NVMe drives (to help level the wear from writes) which offload to their own RAID 10 arrays when they fill up. I get about 2 days worth of footage...

NVMe drives have come a long way, endurance-wise. I have a 2TB NVMe drive with a 3600 TBW endurance rating. The warranty will expire before it hits the guaranteed TBW for me. New clips are written to the NVMe drive, then offloaded to spinners for retention purposes. As bp2008 mentioned in a...

This. You typically want VPN traffic to terminate at your network perimeter. Additionally, most routers are usually inherently more stable (linux-based, and don't have a lot going on, complexity-wise, in relation to a PC). I usually bring my router offline every couple of months in order to do...

Pretty much. I have been using ASUS routers with Merlin FW for a long time now. My router can support 2 simultaneous OpenVPN servers. Whatever you get, be sure to get one that has AES-NI to speed up the crypto. This link will guide you through setting up your own CA and generating certs...

This is the way. Especially if you want to use PKI. If you have a router that can support an OpenVPN server, it should be pretty straightforward. An advantage over using a 'secure' port forwarding setup exclusive to the BI web server, is that not only can you check your cameras while you are...

Glad I stumbled upon this. My timeline view has been pathetically slow. Thanks for the great idea! Consumer-grade SSD's have been greatly increasing in write endurance. I just ordered a brand new 2 TB Corsair Force MP600 PCIe 4.0 SSD for $200. 3600 TBW endurance and a 5 year warranty. If the...

26 cams in total. Most are Dahua 4k cams. My throughput used to be higher, but I had to lower the FPS and bitrate on them because something wasn't playing nice between the cams, BI, and Deepstack. I was getting constant crashes in BI. After toning it down some on the camera settings, everything...

You are definitely right. I took that into account when upgrading my primary switch. My aggregate IP camera throughput is about 250 Mbps, but the IP cameras are pretty evenly spread out amongst the smaller access switches that are throughout the house, which are all gigabit (so figure about ~50...