New Blue Iris PC

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I got a NEW Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tower Workstation i7-8700 3.2GHz 16GB RAM 512GB SSD for my Home Blue Iris. It came with Just one 512 GB M.2 solid-state drive. I have added am WD 10TB 3.5 HDD According to the P330 manual I can add one more 2.5 or 3.5 HDD and I was wondering if it is a better idea to add a 2.5 SSD for the Blue Iris software or should I just install the Blue Irish on the same M.2 drive that OS windows is on?
 
I echo @IAmATeaf , the 512GB M.2 would be plenty to hold OS and Blue Iris database....when the time comes you'll have room for another 3.5" disk
 
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I purchased it from ebay, New with 3 years in home warranty from Lenovo. I am planning to us Intel on board video. It has 2 displays port's. With it be better to use a dedicated Nvidia video card?
 
I actually have an 256 gb NVMe and one TB Evo SSD laying around that I could use, even though there is a slot for NVMe it seems like this pc only takes just one M. 2 SSD
 

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sonypany said:
I am planning to us Intel on board video. It has 2 displays port's. With it be better to use a dedicated Nvidia video card?
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Definitely use the onboard video. Unless you are approaching CPU limits the dedicated video cards will just burn more power for a slight bump in capacity. It's not a good trade-off for a typical Blue Iris setup.
 
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You've already got one SSD in there, why would you want another one?
Windows aint doing anything active there besides maybe update scanning, BI does almost no IO with the database.
Use the extra slot for another storage drive.

Do you need many display ports (are you planning on displaying live output from the cameras)?
You might not even need hardware acceleration (though it helps, if you can run it without issues).
You also haven't specified how many cameras or megapixels per second you would be running.
 
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Mikk36 said:
You've already got one SSD in there, why would you want another one?
Windows aint doing anything active there besides maybe update scanning, BI does almost no IO with the database.
Use the extra slot for another storage drive.

Do you need many display ports (are you planning on displaying live output from the cameras)?
You might not even need hardware acceleration (though it helps, if you can run it without issues).
You also haven't specified how many cameras or megapixels per second you would be running.
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I want to buy 8 good quality cameras.
 
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