I dunno about that, a GOOD 128gb SD card for every camera, say you have 8 or 10 cameras, adds up. You are right though, at some point you have to call it good enough lol.
you are also right, I've been burglarized once. Most thieves are there for small things that are valuable that they know they can sell, jewelry, electronics, I did have a couple big TVs taken in the burglary, that was it, and they definitely searched everywhere, even moving the fucking matresses like they think people keep bags of money under there. currently I do snapshots attached to emails, I only worry with lots of cameras they might start to clog up the outbound connection and maybe not get out fast enough I dunno, even that is probably overly paranoid. Not too likely to take a desktop computer sitting there but possible. I am hoping if it happens again though the fact that I will get some kind of alert on my phone will limit their time to take stuff because I will call the cops, drop whatever I am doing and start hauling ass for my house, and call my buddy who lives a mile away to arm himself and get over there. so hopefully any burglar will be limited to 15 minutes or less, depending on how slow the cops are. I also have a dog that fucking hates everyone though, so if that doesn't totally deter them it might also slow them down. hoping to hook up some sort of siren or something soon if for no other reason then to let said scumbag thief know they've set off some kind of alarm and are on limited time.