Hikvision NAS setup (netHDD) and reliability for playback

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I was wondering if anyone has setup NetHDD with Hikvision NVRs? I have a DS-9632NI-I8 and i'm running out of room and need more storage. I maxed out the slots with 10TB HDDs already and going with 12TB is quite expensive and I won't be gaining too much (another 16TB).

I wanted to know if anyone has set up a Synology NAS or QNAP with the any Hikvision NVR systems and if works reliably and playback will be slow via NetHDD?
 

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I wanted to know if anyone has set up a Synology NAS or QNAP with the any Hikvision NVR systems and if works reliably and playback will be slow via NetHDD?
Been there, done that with Hikvision NVRs and cameras and QNAP NASes.
With gigabit connections on both the NVRs and NASes I've not seen any throughput problems using NetHDD.
 

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Been there, done that with Hikvision NVRs and cameras and QNAP NASes.
With gigabit connections on both the NVRs and NASes I've not seen any throughput problems using NetHDD.
How is the playback via streaming on the NAS? Is it smooth or a bit laggy on it? I'm having some playback issues with it taking forever to load playback on 1 camera (takes minutes to pull up the timeline). I asked Hikvision about it and they suggested I assign cameras to particular hard drives to speed it up. The NAS part is because the machine doesn't have enough physical space to record all the data I need.
 

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OK, so I set up a DS-2CD2132-I dome camera (not the quickest camera around ...) running 3.4.5 firmware to record continuous to a 200GB NFS share on a QNAP TS431+ NAS and checked it out after a couple of hours of recording has been done.
I used IE11 with webcomponents 3.0.6.27 on a Win7 guest VM running under a Linux host to access the camera.
The camera was set to 3MP VBR 20 fps with a 4096kbps bitrate, pushing a steady 550kB/s level of network traffic to the NAS.

I'm having some playback issues with it taking forever to load playback on 1 camera (takes minutes to pull up the timeline).
Switching from Live View to Playback took just over 2 seconds to fully render the page.
On clicking the Play button it took around half a second before video appeared.
The time OSD was consistently steady on single-speed playback, and seemed steady also on double and quad speed playback.
No obvious lag - though it was a static scene apart from the OSD.

So on that quick look, the NAS NetHDD destination seemed to work OK.
 
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