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Chura

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Hi,

BI5 configured with NEW to 10 GB and Stored with 250GB
But my BI address is actually 398GB, Stored folder is 347GB of it.
My SSD total of 500GB so free space is very low now.

How come ?
I used to have 5-6 days storage, not I'm having only few hours. seems like something is stuck or video files not being rotated.

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  • What drive letter is for video storage?
  • What drive letter is for OS, BI and BI database?
  • Please post screen shots of BI's configuration pages for "New", "Stored", etc. related to your issue.
 

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Un check clip age. 10 gb is not big enough for new. Set new to 250 gb. Then set to delete. Set stored to 0. Moving new to stored on the same device Isa waste of system resources.

The only thing that can really determine clip age is the amount of storage, not the time/ age

Buy a WD purple hard drive for video storage.

What is the average size of your video files for each camera. The size of the files can cause problems when working with such a small amount of storage space.
 

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Also make sure you have updated BI, some updates a few months ago were causing over allocation problems, although this sounds different.
 

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Un check clip age. 10 gb is not big enough for new. Set new to 250 gb. Then set to delete. Set stored to 0. Moving new to stored on the same device Isa waste of system resources.

The only thing that can really determine clip age is the amount of storage, not the time/ age

Buy a WD purple hard drive for video storage.

What is the average size of your video files for each camera. The size of the files can cause problems when working with such a small amount of storage space.
Done. Will it automatically clean the Stored folder or I should delete it manually ?
Its running on NUC and the external dock stopped working, and I was lazy ordering new one, I guess I must do that now.

As for size, some 3.9GB, some 2.9GB. But now I see that some files are from August, and I don't see them in the UI
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All is at C: drive, OS+BI+DB
Looks like @SouthernYankee and @Walrus have got you covered...your answer addressed my biggest concern...you really should put all of BI's video clips on a surveillance-rated HDD (not SSD), such as a WD Purple, leave BI (of course) and BI's db folder on the SSD.

Install the new drive, create those same folders on the new drive, with BI closed, move those files from SSD over to HDD, open BI, change folder paths to new drive, tell BI to rebuild database.
 

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Isn't it best practice to have the NEW on SSD and STORED on HDD ?
 

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Yup, what TonyR said. On the clips & archiving tab, it says 'Database (and ideally New folder) should remain on local/fast'. This means New should be on a local drive in your BI computer, not on a NAS. It doesn't mean it should be on a SSD.
 

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So you say two different things. Ideally NEW folder toghether with OS or not?
 

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No I'm not. You install a WD purple HDD IN your BI computer, and put new on that.

But, you are using an NUC (which you shouldn't be using for BI), so I don't think you can install a HDD inside it along with a SSD, unless you have one of the tall ones
 

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Ok, Thanks
NUC is what I could get for 0$ :) and its doing great job so far.
 

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It is a taller one with an H at the end of the model number, or a shorter one with K at the end?
 

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In most configuration cases there is no video on the SSD. If you have one storage device for video use it for the New folder then delete from the new folder, do not use the the stored folder.

Also I do not like files over 1GB , they are difficult to move and difficult to play. (BI 4) On each camera properties on the Record tab, set the the combine or cut video each: value to 1 hour.

Never allocate 100% for a devices free space to Blue Iris. Allocate no more than 95% free space on a device to BI.

I your case I dowuld set the folders up the way you want them thene delete all the Video files, and rebuild the data base. Just simply starting over.
 

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I have the same issue lately as Chura. Something in BI has changed. I have the latest rev.

My hardware is completely different at it is on a server platform with RAID.
 

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estrov

please describe your problem in detail.

Provided screen shots of your space configuration and allocations.
 

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How can I purge all history recording ? just stop service, delete all and start service + rebuild DB ?
 

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Red is not good. You have space over allocated. the simple solution is to delete all video files. Then rebuild the data base.

After that look at the allocation again. If there is still red you have a major configuration problem.
 

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So, I did rebuilt without deleting anything, nothing changed. decided to stop BI service, and start again. Then BI deleted almost all data in that folders and now everything is back in tact!
maybe I had some issue from previous built or something that messed things up.

Anyway, I learned few things from you guys:
1. Short term - Change to NEW only
2. Long term - get the HDD back in place
3. Change clip size to 1GB

Thanks ppl
 
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