I get 32 days of recordings on the 30TB of drives. I also see no reason to backup my cam videos. So BI has to ask the NAS for the data, the NAS has to read it and send it to the BI machine which then has to display it all while both units are still writing the new recordings. Why handle the data twice? Now as the data is being written, you decide to review a recording. BI gets the feeds, checks for motion etc, and passed the data to the NAS that then has to handle it to write it to the drives. If you have the NAS be the storage, then you have two machines handling your cam data at the same time. I have a QNAP NAS for the last 8-9 years or so. All three drives are set to delete as needed. I split the 18 cams over the three drives. I have three WD 10TB Purple drives in my BI machine. Or would it be preferable to record directly to the internal hard drive of the Blue Iris computer? If doing this, I assume it's possible to, in real time, backup or copy the data to the NAS but then the Blue Iris computer must work a little bit harder. What are your thoughts regarding a NAS? Is it a viable (efficient & responsive) option to use the NAS as the direct recording drive for Blue Iris? I do like the fact that I could set up a NAS so that a copy of the data is automatically retained and drives can be swapped out if they fail, hopefully not both of them at the same time. (I have wired for 17 locations, overkill, but will be 7 - 8 cameras to start with and work it out from there) I have only practised with Blue Iris with one camera, getting ready to move into a new house in two weeks. It appears it's a choice between Synology or QNAP and then either a two or four-bay unit. Ok, I'll preface this with the fact that I do not yet have a NAS drive and have only started researching them.
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