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0460dirt

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I ran BI on a Windoze mirror array with 2 spin drives for storage. Would notice when the drives went to sleep, even after I told them not to, I would get at times, lazy initial records or black or weird stutters. Or miss the event all together.

Installed a cheap 512mb SSD for BI storage. Much faster to wake up an SSD compared to a spin drive. Now I don't have the above problem anymore. I never have over say 100gb anyway till I review the clips.
 
Keep in mind that the kind of constant write activity that BI creates is considered a very "hard use" case in terms of SSD lifespan: ie, potentially quite detrimental to the long-term longevity of said SSD. All SSDs have a rated/expected lifespan in terms of terabytes written, you might want to run some numbers to see how fast that will be reached in this type of use case, which is why big conventional (spinning platter) hard drives are still suggested here for the raw storage portion of BI. The OS, database, and main BI program files can be on an SSD of course.
 
+1 above!

If you are using it for BI, make sure it is just the video and no programs or operating system.

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

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.
 
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Yup using the cheap 2.5 inch SATA drives. I have about 10 laying around. Of course not with the OS installed on it. All separate of course. Only gets the motion trigger events and the .jpg stills from each clip written to it.

I know it's a thing but I've never ran into hey, your drive is over written and now not usable thing. End of it's writing life so to day. Maybe today is the day?
 
I guess that is another advantage of recording 24/7 is the drive won't sleep!
 
Used to run 24/7 records. Now I'm doing when triggered only with increased 10 minute max triggers. Catch 30 seconds prior and up to 10 minutes per trigger. Works for me.
 
Many of us find 24/7 is still useful:

samplenhold

Thread 'Why I like Continuous Recording (aka 24/7)'

So a guy came to the door yesterday, and while my wife did not open the door, it kind of spooked her out. She said he seem suspicious saying he found a driver's license on the lawn and wanted to know if it belonged to her. So when I got back from the range, I checked out the cams. This is one reason that continuously recording video, not just when triggered, is important. It helped us to understand the situation.

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