any one use Intel nuc with Blue Iris?

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kipster7

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I'm using 4 Hiksvision Cameras with Synology drive but was think of adding few more cameras and switching to Blue Iris with a intel nuc. But don't see anytone using a nuc for blue iris would I be better off use hikvision NVR?
 
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kipster7 said:
I'm using 4 Hiksvision Cameras with Synology drive but was think of adding few more cameras and switching to Blue Iris with a intel nuc. But don't see anytone using a nuc for blue iris would I be better off use hikvision NVR?
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you couuuuuuuld I guess. But the cost of a used, off lease desktop that came from some Dr's office with the same processor, more memory and a hard drive would be way cheaper. Honestly with so many good used full systems available, I don't see the purpose of a NUC other than the portability to use at a trade show. If its a system that'll never move, then I'd just go used for 1/2 the price.
 
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I'd have to agree with kipster. The price tag of NUC's (used and new) are exuberant as compared to PC's. I had this decision thought process when I wanted to move away from my i7-4770 CPU based Dell optiplex Mid-Sized tower. Not sure why NUC's are so spendy since they take up less material to manufacture. But the USFF I selected was $200-$400 cheaper than equivalent hardware spec'd NUC. I also feared the CPU heat buildup since IP camera and video compression really hogs up the CPU utilization in a NUC. I believe, you will find additional posts here about the pro's / con's. Most, seem to lead towards the 'not so great of idea'.
When I first jumped into the camera arena last year, I too was about to pull trigger on a NVR. Luckily, I opted for Blue Iris on a PC. More options, control, security, etc. Of course that means more learning, more headaches, more configurations, etc. Ying/Yang.
 
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Then I would give it a shot. You are offloading your recordings and alerts to your network storage already. Can nuc's use m.2 sad? Would really need something for a local database and same day alerts and recordings
 
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Holbs said:
Then I would give it a shot. You are offloading your recordings and alerts to your network storage already. Can nuc's use m.2 sad? Would really need something for a local database and same day alerts and recordings
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At the risk of flaming up the crowd, there was a time where I had 100% of the recordings going onto my NAS and BI didn't seem to have a problem with it. I had my OS on the internal HDD but that was it. Really I think I could have used a usb stick as the hdd and it would have been fine.

Anyways, you can run BI with everything going onto the NAS. It just puts a lot of traffic onto your network & switches but if you've got the bandwidth......it wouldnt be a problem
 
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At the risk of flaming up the crowd, there was a time where I had 100% of the recordings going onto my NAS and BI didn't seem to have a problem with it. I had my OS on the internal HDD but that was it. Really I think I could have used a usb stick as the hdd and it would have been fine.

Anyways, you can run BI with everything going onto the NAS. It just puts a lot of traffic onto your network & switches but if you've got the bandwidth......it wouldnt be a problem
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If your NAS and BI servers are attached to the same (decent quality) network switch, the traffic shouldn't be running everywhere else, anyway.
 
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If you do proceed with this please let us know the results after a couple days. I would bet your CPU would heat up pretty badly because of the CPU utilization
 
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