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michty_me said:
Is it generally advised to offload Protect to a dedicated unit such as CK2+ or a UNVR?
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Depends what you want it for, I just use the Dream Machine SE, only use it for watching delivery men leave parcels at the front door and motion triggers for lighting.
Anything more id imagine at the least you'd want multiple drives for redundancy.
 
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michty_me said:
Is it generally advised to offload Protect to a dedicated unit such as CK2+ or a UNVR?
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Been using protect with 3 2k cams, 2tb nvme, a few vlans with basic firewall rules on a cloud max 900mb connection. Albeit with only 1 WiFi access point. All good
 
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michty_me said:
Is it generally advised to offload Protect to a dedicated unit such as CK2+ or a UNVR?
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The main benefit of a UNVR is storage and camera capacity.

The Devices like the UCG-F use NVME which is expensive, 4tb is £200. The NVR uses full sized hard drives and you can install multiple (these will be configured in raid).

There isn’t much advantage of the CKG2+ over devices like the UCG-F because it’s stuck on 2.5” hard drives which max out at 5TB, are expensive and has limited camera capacity.
 
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robj20 said:
Depends what you want it for, I just use the Dream Machine SE, only use it for watching delivery men leave parcels at the front door and motion triggers for lighting.
Anything more id imagine at the least you'd want multiple drives for redundancy.
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It will just be for a couple of cameras and only really checked when I need to have a look at something or checking protect on my phone. I'm not too worried about redundancy as I can just replace the drive if it fails.

sg0 said:
Been using protect with 3 2k cams, 2tb nvme, a few vlans with basic firewall rules on a cloud max 900mb connection. Albeit with only 1 WiFi access point. All good
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That sounds like a very similar use case as myself.

b0rn2sk8 said:
The main benefit of a UNVR is storage and camera capacity.

The Devices like the UCG-F use NVME which is expensive, 4tb is £200. The NVR uses full sized hard drives and you can install multiple (these will be configured in raid).

There isn’t much advantage of the CKG2+ over devices like the UCG-F because it’s stuck on 2.5” hard drives which max out at 5TB, are expensive and has limited camera capacity.
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At the minute, I won't be having a lot of cameras and don't ever see me maxing out the CGF. I am not worried about backup drives either currently as I would just replace the drive if needed. I'll probably just stick with the CGF and if my usage needs change, I can revisit.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Yeh that sounds fine. If you can get away with 2tb NVME which is reasonably affordable (£100), you’ll be fine.
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It looks like I can get an open box 4TB Crucial P3+ for £170 so may just get that and chuck it in.

Dangerous said:
Near 3 weeks recording 24/7 at 4k.


1.87 TB / 1.96 TB

Cameras
3
Storage Capacity
17d 13h 20m
Earliest Recording
19 days ago
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That is pretty much all I would be using for the foreseeable future. Two cameras and potentially a doorbell.
 
michty_me said:
It looks like I can get an open box 4TB Crucial P3+ for £170 so may just get that and chuck it in.



That is pretty much all I would be using for the foreseeable future. Two cameras and potentially a doorbell.
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For the Cloud Fibre, 2TB is technically the max supported, but seen reports it does work.
 
Any better options than the USW-Flex to live in my garage? It will be powering 1, maybe 2 cameras, plus 2 floodlights.

Currently I have a US 8 60W there, but I want the new G6 Pro for the front of my garage which needs PoE+ power, and it'll be nice to power the USW-Flex from my PoE++ switch which has the downlink to the garage already. Frees up a plug socket and fewer cables to faff around with.

I don't see any future requirement for > 1 GbE in there.
 
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RIP Synology.

8 bay and 4 bay are mine :D

Just when you thinks it’s all gone quiet on the Ubiquiti front, then BAM:eek:
 
Good looking units, and the 2-bay and 4-bay running on PoE is an interesting thing to implement.
 
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