NVR and/or NAS

r3br3l15

r3br3l15

r3br3l15

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firstly has anyone used a NAS for the storage of home CCTV recording?

ive currently got a DVR with single hard drive storing CCTV footage,
but i also want to buy a NAS for home storage,

ive been looking at this 1 as i dont have much data on my PC (max 3TB)
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/syno...4-bay-network-attached-storage-hd-0ac-sy.html

am i correct in thinking i could put 3 drives 2TB each in RAID 5 for data and then a single drive for the CCTV footage?

thanks
 
wow thanks for the info, this seems much more involved than i thought,

currently im only looking at 1 camera (to replace the single camera being in use currently) i have no plans for a second IP camera but i at least i will have the spare licence on the NAS available

with regards to the software the original plan was to use an app on my phone to remotely view live and playback footage (which i do with my current camera) so as the software is free i may give that a go and see what other features it offers
ive have looked on the synology software and my camera is listed as supported

can you explain a little more about this bandwidth, my setup currently consists of the POE switch (netgear) and a TP-Link 16 port gigabyte switch which the new NAS will connect, i do have GbE capabilities on the network from the router which my PC uses now
ive had no issue lately with bandwidth however having not had a NAS on the network im not sure how this would be affected
 
thanks for the explanation that makes total sense now, i was thinking of using a 2TB standard 3.5 HDD for the footage which should be plenty of space

my NAS would then be filled with 4x 2TB drives (3x NAS HDD for data and 1x HDD for footage)

thanks for the advice
 
hi guys

so im purchased the NAS very pleased with it so far and ive now got it set up (drives installed and connected to network), ive also setup the survielance recording etc (great little app by synology)
my next step was to start a backup to the NAS, i have tried using software called Easeus (which ive used before) but when the location of the destination is required it only shows the single 2TB drive (currently storing CCTV footage)

stupid question time .... i have 3x 2TB drives in raid 5, configured in the NAS as 1 group with total size of 3.6TB. i was under the impression that i would be able to write to this volume (3.6TB) and the data be split across all 3 drives is this correct?
thanks
 
thanks for your reply, ive now sorted the issue, it was my own mistake i had simply made a group consisting of the 3 drives but had not created the volume, so i now have the raid 5 volume with 3.48TB of usable space
 
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