Recent content by wseaton

What's silly and usual are your trite replies, sir. I support 120 different companies, which include VMware Servers, Citrix, Exchange, AD, SQL, VDI, SAN, etc. Although I agree with you that needing more folders isn't really a practical requirement it's hardly a 'useless' requirement. I prefer...

Direct to disc is not viable in all situations. Your workflow may not be my workflow. I would think that AMD's sprawl with cores approach might yield more bang per buck with H264/H265, although it's an exception. Normally you are better off with fewer cores and more efficacy per core (Intel)...

End user is in his 60's and needs a bit of patience, so I'll work *around* his deficiencies.He likes a folder for each camera I'm assuming.

As I recall BI has a limited number of default 'clip' folders than can be created or edited from default. 8 or 9 as I recall. Am I wrong on this? Gentleman I installed BI for quite awhile ago E-mailed me and asked me if more could be added. Possible this can be extended to 12 or so, or is this...

I'm a data center guys that's had to deal with RAID for darn near 20 years. Avoid RAID 5 at all costs. RAID 6 much better, but is out of reach of most consumer storage devices, and requires 5 or more drives to be a benefit. RAID 1 (straight mirror) is preferred for consumer devices, and is...

Considering your Mac is using entirely PC parts (excluding the BIOS, which is the only difference ) that's a pretty stupid statement. Also, I can link you to Mac support forums of iMac users having the same SSD migration headaches. I support Mac and Apple end client devices in enterprise...

Fenderman beat me to it. Those micro PC's that people think are a deal are actually a rip off considering you can get much better performing full fledged i3 or i5 desktop PCs now for less than that price, and they have several orders better performance. i7s are also starting to trickle down to...

I realize this thread is a few months old, but just like Lockdown I went with a Lenovo Thinkserver TS140 and windows 8.1, and I know Server OS's and hardware quite well. From an OS perspective you gain little using a Server OS like 2012 over 8.1 *unless* you need the built in server roles like...

Yep...that was it. I had to reduce the contrast slider down to about half so ambient noise wouldn't set the motion trigger. I'm slowly going to be adding better cameras and replacing the older AXIS M1054's and 3005's with Hikvisions...testing a 2432 right now and the image quality is far and...

iSCSI is going to involve a bit less network over-head, but there's some additional packet controls inside iSCSI that give it an advantage over NFS because it's actually working at a layer underneath SMB , NFS (or CIFS). However, I don't think these controls matter when the application is...

Nah... they are running all night. Hold on, might have found something. Ok, one thing different about the three cameras running all night is our cleaning crew shut the lights off (like they should) in those areas when they were done. While this in itself isn't a problem, it does crank up the...

What Fenderman said. Try manually copying something to the NAS network share you set up from the BI computer with the same credentials. If that doesn't work, BI isn't going to be able to move files there either.

Sure...if you like to spend a significant portion of your day hunting down firmware updates from countless Asian vendors. Some of us also have a mix of cameras, and all those different brands of cameras have different capabilities, processors, software and tech support. For that reason I prefer...

Currently running BI with 6 Axis cameras and working the glitches out before adding more. Over the weekend I enabled the 'combine or cut' feature with all the cams so that footage is an hour in length. This makes auditing much easier and keeps files from growing to monster sizes which makes is...

The i5 4250 has a Sysmark of 3470, which is right up there in used AMD territory and pretty much garbage in my book. I'd rather buy a cheap laptop and put in on my shelf because the laptop is is certainly more flexible and likely to be faster. Again, I've had to support hundred of these micro...