It still costs way more than the dell and is less powerful..we can agree that your build costs over 700 dollars without the drive or blue iris. Makes zero sense. The is no point in building your own system for blue iris or in fact for most other uses.
Cant hurt to reiterate it...Back in the day, refurbished used to mean 3-5 year old machines (and some independent refurbishers still do this). Dell outlet stuff with haswell, are usually simply returns from customers within the 30 day return period. They arrive clean and in mint condition - you cannot tell its refurbished but for the sticker. Back when haswell was released you could buy haswell from the outlet a few months later. If you look at the manufacture dates of the components you can see they are not old. For example, I have a dell 7020 optiplex that I purchased in December 2014 for my office, which I just opened (I had it laying around until i needed it) to swap in an ssd. The manufacture date on the hard drive was May 2014..Considering the time it takes for a newly manufactured drive to get installed, and storage time of the pc, both before sale and in the outlet, the machine was likely never used.
Now you are making no sense at all.. If you hook up USB storage to any computer it can be removed.. This function is not exclusive to the nuc.. There is no distinction between refurb and new... Look do what you want.. It's your money.. But when someone asks for advice and states the price, I will give them proper guidance.. They are completely wasting money on the nuc.. You still have not listed a single tangible distinction.. Also note that the optiplex has advanced remote functions built I my into the bios not available on the nuc... Seems to me like you are trying to justify your poor purchase decision .. FYI, recording to USB is not preferred and given the option internal drives should be used.
You really don't want to use an SSD for recording streaming video, even if only motion recording (think pre-event recording, ie continuous streaming), for a couple or more reasons.
First, with my setup you can just as well, if you use a usb drive...what are you talking about??
There was no misleading feedback given to op. Your setup is wasteful and silly. There is no benefit to using an ssd to record 1 days worth of video. Look, you admitted to only testing blue iris on a nuc with 8 mpeg cameras - most likely junk foscam or similar clones..that tells me that you have no experience with blue iris or network cameras. I can assure you that you dont have a clue as to a proper blue iris setup, I have over 20 blue iris machines running in various environments.
