How powerful does a CCTV camera server need to be?

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Deago999

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Can it just be like a consumer grade CPU i.e. an i5 or an i7 or would we need a xeon server to capture and render CCTV camera footage (This is a theoretical question)
 
You would likely get away with a dualcore machine, 3gb ram, old xp licence and a couple of decent hard drives, sorry cable or IP?
 
1. CCTV is more drive intensive than CPU,doesnt use much processing at all
2. An all in one DVR is miles easier than a PC-based config
 
We've got 35 IP camera's feeding into a Xeon E3 server with 8GB ram. Resolution ranges from 480 to 1080 all doing 20fps. What I've learned is that the faster your storage system, the better. Don't do any RAID except RAID 0, use the fastest hard drives you can.
 
Deago999 said:
It is 10 Cameras at 360p - 4 fps
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What do you actually see with that crappy system ?

TBH just throw it all away and start again .

Buy a decent DVR at lest 960H with 25 FPS per channel and replace those cams .

Cams should be at lest a sony 811 image sensor with a 4140 processor minimum .
 
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