FWIW, you will likely find Win 10 Pro more readily available in new, off the shelf PCs, especially online like from Dell, than Windows 10 Home....and that's not a bad thing, IMO.Thanks for the feedback....I'm moving towards setting up a new system for my parents so just doing some initial legwork.
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think this should handle 11 cams then?If you buy a Business machine Like HP Elitedesk g4 800 it has the i5-8500 and a Pro license for WIn 10.
That's what I run.
18 cameras. No problem. Spread across 2 HDD's for longer file retention. ( Condo Complex)
Yeah, my current setup isn't cutting it, took 10 min to search through a video and cut out a section. I just don't have the patience for it anymore.24/7 uptime since March of last year. no crashes, 1 freeze ( my fault) when I moved up to BI Ver. 5.4.7.11, for substreams, and had rechecked Jpegs on by default for 5 -6 cameras.
But in the new software the default was " continous" so I missed that detail at first.
And I had to turn off Hardware acceleration, first cam by cam,,, then somebody told about the globally toggling it in "Settings/Cameras tab".
And 1 video driver error in 1st week of operation,But @fenderman linked me to the intel graphics driver version for March of 2020 I believe, on their site. At the time, that was the better driver.