Hello Im installing Some Security cameras POE cameras into the House and want to Sign up for Blue Iris Im good with Making the Cat5E Cables and Mounting up the cameras and what not Not Looking to go Crazy on the system Just have Coverage on all 4 Sides and Be able to Have Real Time Views of the Cameras im thinking ill go with 4 Cameras. And Maybe the doorbell cam Route. I have read a decent amount in the Forum. ( Not Enough ) I want to Be able to Look at the 4 Sides of the House and have the ability to say hey Alexa show me my Cameras and have it Bring up the 4 cam's. While at the same time Be alerted to People and Vehicles that get close to the house. Have a friend that recommended to get Blue Iris a few Dome cams and or Turret cams the Starlight Or Rebranded ones. He told me to buy the cams Here . He said For me to just get a NUC. I had to read what that was. ( Computer) just never heard it called that. Would i need much more then that? In order to make that happen? Im going to have a dedicated monitor to display the cams on. I guess ill need to spend some more time reading. Im not going out and buy a Package system that i know ill end up wanting to upgrade to what im describing in the end anyway. Any Suggestions welcome. IM NEW I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO !!!
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A NUC isn’t the best computer for a Blue Iris box. Think a small form factor (SFF) pc, about ten years old. Something like a hp elitedesk 800 g4 or g5. These are good because they’re pretty low power, have space for a couple of hdds, as well as nvme and sata ssds. You can use the ssds for your system files and recent video footage. The hdds will store your older footage. There are pcie slots for a second network card, and a graphics card, though you don’t need a graphics card for Blue Iris. You can pick up one of these computers for very little.
Here’s an ongoing discussion:
There is zero benefit to put on SSD and then move to the HDD. All that moving around can cause these types of problems and more, especially that small of storage before it moves.
Best practice is to simply put video on the HDD rated for surveillance cameras. You will not notice a speed difference.
SSDs are not really designed for the continuous writing of video cameras. Sure people have used enterprise ones and can get many years out of it, but if yours is a typical consumer grade SSD it may not be able to keep up or you will probably kill the SSD in a year or less like this person has twice:
ipcamtalk.com
As always YMMV and some people have used cheap ones fine, but I wouldn't run it on the same SSD as the operating system if you do.
Best practice is to simply put video on the HDD rated for surveillance cameras. You will not notice a speed difference.
SSDs are not really designed for the continuous writing of video cameras. Sure people have used enterprise ones and can get many years out of it, but if yours is a typical consumer grade SSD it may not be able to keep up or you will probably kill the SSD in a year or less like this person has twice:
SSD HD Failure 2nd time :(
Unfortunately, my main sytem SSD has failed again. It failed april 2022 and I replaced it. What am I doing wrong? It is a Sandisk 240GB SSD. On a Dell Optiplex. I inserted the drive to another computer and also can't get past the windows screen with a loading circle. I have unplugged it a few...
As always YMMV and some people have used cheap ones fine, but I wouldn't run it on the same SSD as the operating system if you do.
Interesting. I will cut out the ssd for new footage and see if I see a difference. Thanks wittaj.