Hard drive strategy

jeffseine

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Sorry if this has already been covered, I couldn’t seem to find an answer with searches.

I am excited to put together a blue iris server. I have two other camera installations with a hikvision nvr. With the hikvision nvrs, it will just use all the hard drives in the system seamlessly.

I have 5 hard drives in my system, and was wondering if I point blue iris to all five hard drives, will it use them all until full then start overwriting the oldest?

If not, do I put them all in a raid 0 array? I would rather not. Or are there any other strategies that I should use? I have 2x - 6tb drives and 3x - 4tb drives.

Thanks for your help.
 

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Sorry if this has already been covered, I couldn’t seem to find an answer with searches.

I am excited to put together a blue iris server. I have two other camera installations with a hikvision nvr. With the hikvision nvrs, it will just use all the hard drives in the system seamlessly.

I have 5 hard drives in my system, and was wondering if I point blue iris to all five hard drives, will it use them all until full then start overwriting the oldest?

If not, do I put them all in a raid 0 array? I would rather not. Or are there any other strategies that I should use? I have 2x - 6tb drives and 3x - 4tb drives.

Thanks for your help.
clips and archiving - see help file..
best way to do it is to setup the aux folders and split the cams among the drives.
 

jeffseine

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Thanks fenderman. I am just building my server, and haven’t installed blue iris yet.

I will install in a day or two and read the help files. I was just wondering how it would use the hard drives.

I guess it makes sense to equal the MP of the cameras among the hard drives.
 

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Thanks fenderman. I am just building my server, and haven’t installed blue iris yet.

I will install in a day or two and read the help files. I was just wondering how it would use the hard drives.

I guess it makes sense to equal the MP of the cameras among the hard drives.
The MP is irrelevant....its the bitrate..
 

zlandar

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Sorry if this has already been covered, I couldn’t seem to find an answer with searches.

I am excited to put together a blue iris server. I have two other camera installations with a hikvision nvr. With the hikvision nvrs, it will just use all the hard drives in the system seamlessly.

I have 5 hard drives in my system, and was wondering if I point blue iris to all five hard drives, will it use them all until full then start overwriting the oldest?

If not, do I put them all in a raid 0 array? I would rather not. Or are there any other strategies that I should use? I have 2x - 6tb drives and 3x - 4tb drives.

Thanks for your help.
I use Stablebit Drivepool. It aggregates all the hard drives into one single drive:

StableBit - The home of StableBit CloudDrive, StableBit DrivePool and the StableBit Scanner

Unlike RAID individual files are stored intact among the pooled hard drives. No risk of file corruption ruining an entire array. It's very easy to add/subtract hard drives to the pool.

It's free to use for 30 days. If you decide its not for you just uninstall as all your files are accessible among the drives.
 

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I have mixed my cameras up between the two hard drives so that each area is one both drives.

eg My the front of my house has two cameras so I have each camera stored on a different drive. The same for side and back cameras. I then split the indoor cameras to even out the bitrate going to each drive.
 

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I just run my thirteen cameras to a 1TB SSD. And then I have a secondary 500GB SSD that the files get pushed to when the 1TB gets full. This has worked very well for the last five years with my third gen core i5 BI machine.

I'm setting up a new machine with an 8th gen core i5. But this one will have an m2 drive in it. So I plan to do the same thing only I plan to fist push everything to the 250GB m2 drive before being pushed to a 1TB SSD. Only this time I will try using a tertiary drive that will be a 7200 rpm platter drive to see how it works. The new pc comes with a 1TB platter drive so I figure I might as well try it. Since I have no use for such a small capacity platter drive anywhere else.
 
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