well it would fill up my 500 gig SSD in no time at all if I did that, which is why I put it on a 4tb purple drive. plus I try to keep all my large storage on separate drives for example my 1.5 tb of of dropbox is on a separate drive on all my PC's.
Yes, I know this. I was simply replying to the fact that you stated
Blue Iris by default put the database on C:\Users\Mike. It didn't.
Anyways, there is absolutely no need to use stored, if you are putting new and stored on the same drive. Also alerts can be on C as well. I'd do the following:
C:\Blue Iris\db
C:\Blue Iris\alerts
S:\Blue Iris\new
C:\Blue Iris\stored
Under new, uncheck limit clip age, and change 'move to folder' to 'delete' instead.
A 4tb hard drive has 3726gb useable space. Change the 'limit size' for NEW to 3540gb (leaving 5% free). This is assuming you have nothing else on that drive.
Change the limit size for Stored to 0.