Hardware Reccomendations for Large Reolink Setup

[twitchfidelis]

Hello Everyone-

I am currently looking at using Blue Iris to monitor a medium sized business with multiple buildings. This job will require about 50 cameras total and will probably have 3 or more users accessing the web interface or Blue Iris mobile app at any given time. I am going to use these Reolink cameras set to stream at the following settings:

Resolution: 720P
Framerate: 10
Max Bitrate: 3072

The system will be setup to record when motion is detected 24/7 and since they will be monitoring shops that will be active almost 24/7 they will be recording fairly frequently. Ideally I would like the Blue Iris software to handle the encoding so that I know all the cameras have the correct time overlaid on their videos.
The current Blue Iris server has the following hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K 4.0 GHz
RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC3-10700
HDD: 1x250GB SSD for OS and 2x8TB WD Purple Surveillance HDD’s
OS: Windows 8.1 x64 Pro

I need to know if I can possibly use/upgrade the current system to monitor 50 of those Reolink cameras and if not what kind of hardware would support such a system.

Many thanks in advance,
Chris

 

[fenderman]

You will not be able to record 50 cams without using direct to disk. You can user the timesynctool (search forum) to run your own time server on the pc and have all the cams sync to it.

Also reconsider reolink as they have not played nicely with blue iris--dont know if all the issues were worked out or not.

 

[twitchfidelis]

I can use direct to disk and we already have a time server on site I can use to sync them to. I just wanted to have everything as centralized as possible, but sometimes you just can't. I know people have had Reolink issues in the past, and I did not like the previous version of their firmware which required a plugin to view the camera through a web browser, however, the new firmware which is HTML 5 based works great. I have had 4 Reolink cameras, 2 POE and 2 WiFi, running with the latest version of Blue Iris for the last month and even with the old firmware I have had very few issues with them. Mostly it's the WiFi signal to the 2 wireless cameras that causes the issue, but that's to be expected given where they are located.