- Jun 22, 2016
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I got my 3TB WD Purple drive installed today, I only have 6 cameras recording direct-to-disc and setting it up and have a few questions:
1) I saw that the DB should be located on the local (C
drive, will having the DB on the C: and the clips on the WD Purple drive affect performance when trying to view them? Is it better to have it that way or have both on the WD Purple drive?
2) I want to have the NEW clips for X amount of days then moved to STORED and stay in the STORED folder until the space on the HD is almost full, how can this be done? Is it recommended? Or is it recommended to have it in the Storage folder for X amount of days. (My issue is I could set it for say 15 or 30 days, but based on the recordings that may only take up 1-2TB and not fully take advantage of my space).
3) I noticed that for some reason my "new" clips from today are being put directly in the "Storage" folder, even though I have the "NEW" settings as "limit clip age to 14" and assuming after 14 days i have "move to folder" "storage" selected
3) off topic question - Will setting the Pre-trigger video buffer to 20 seconds cause significant CPU issues? I ask because I had it at 10 and it still seemed to miss some beginning recordings. I have a i5 6500 8GBRAM
I would like to keep the clips as long as possible to fill the HD without causing any performance issues.
Can anyone provide a little more insight?
1) I saw that the DB should be located on the local (C

2) I want to have the NEW clips for X amount of days then moved to STORED and stay in the STORED folder until the space on the HD is almost full, how can this be done? Is it recommended? Or is it recommended to have it in the Storage folder for X amount of days. (My issue is I could set it for say 15 or 30 days, but based on the recordings that may only take up 1-2TB and not fully take advantage of my space).
3) I noticed that for some reason my "new" clips from today are being put directly in the "Storage" folder, even though I have the "NEW" settings as "limit clip age to 14" and assuming after 14 days i have "move to folder" "storage" selected
3) off topic question - Will setting the Pre-trigger video buffer to 20 seconds cause significant CPU issues? I ask because I had it at 10 and it still seemed to miss some beginning recordings. I have a i5 6500 8GBRAM
I would like to keep the clips as long as possible to fill the HD without causing any performance issues.
Can anyone provide a little more insight?
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