Help with 50 cam system.

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TomSmithery

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Hi all,
I'm looking to setup a system using 50 of the DS-2CD2142FWD-I hikvision cams:
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd.

Reading through the forum, it's looking like BlueIris is the only want to go for a PC based system. But I have not found much info regarding these amount of cams on a single system.

If we do go with the BI route, what kind of hardware should I be looking to build?
CPU: Intel i7
RAM: min of 16gb... maybe more like 32gb?
SSD for Win 10 64bit Pro
HDD looking at 3 WD Purple 6TB drives (18TB Total)

Will be recording on Motion, however 14 hours a day, all 50 cam's may be recording non-stop from motion.

Thanks for the help!
Tom
 
I'm in research mode and new at this. I will have a system in May for testing. So, more informed people will chime in to correct me. Some things you need to be thinking about:

  • 4MP is a lot when factored out by 50 times. Consider 2MP.
  • 4MP is a lot if you want 30 days of storage, you're over 70TB!
  • Avigilon is PC based and more CPU efficient vs Blue Iris.
The i7-8700K (BI's current best recommended) will not handle your situation - I don't think. This is why you'll need to consider software that is more optimized.
 
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Cant seem to find any pricing for the Avigilon Standard software

So maybe a standalone NVR would be a better solution to this rather then PC based?
 
TomSmithery said:
Can't seem to find any pricing for the Avigilon Standard software. So maybe a standalone NVR would be a better solution to this rather then PC based?
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That is a question for you to decide based on how flexible of a recording and monitoring solution you are after. What is important to you? Cost? Easy to use, this feature or that?
 
TomSmithery said:
Cant seem to find any pricing for the Avigilon Standard software

So maybe a standalone NVR would be a better solution to this rather then PC based?
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There are other VMS like Milestone Systems and Digital Watchdog.

Ultimately, you may need to distribute the the load between multiple servers or nvrs.
 
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