I need to buy a new NVR and cams for our new location. Current location has 30-40 cams and a Hikvision DS-96064NI-I16 with 80TB storage. New location needs about the same setup with slightly more cams.
The DS-96064NI-I16 works fine as far a reliably recording video, but when it comes to playback and searching remotely or locally I feel like I'm back in time a couple decades using a laggy old PC on Window Millennium. It seems to alway be an effort to search and playback. A bare DS-96064NI-I16 is around $3,000. I was wondering if paying around $1,500 more for a 128 Ch NVR would make a difference? Don't need 128 Ch but would extra CPU power result in snappier system for search and playback? Or just wasting money? Prior to the Hikvision we tried a Dahua and disliked it more than the Hikvision. Is it just the nature of NVR's to have clunky interfaces that don't run smoothly?
The DS-96064NI-I16 works fine as far a reliably recording video, but when it comes to playback and searching remotely or locally I feel like I'm back in time a couple decades using a laggy old PC on Window Millennium. It seems to alway be an effort to search and playback. A bare DS-96064NI-I16 is around $3,000. I was wondering if paying around $1,500 more for a 128 Ch NVR would make a difference? Don't need 128 Ch but would extra CPU power result in snappier system for search and playback? Or just wasting money? Prior to the Hikvision we tried a Dahua and disliked it more than the Hikvision. Is it just the nature of NVR's to have clunky interfaces that don't run smoothly?