Category Archives: Storage
Thailand Flood Causes Hard Drive Shortage
If you’re looking to buy a Network Video Recorder (NVR) or especially a configurable NVR like those with QNAP that offer your choice of storage, there may be a shipment delay due to flooding in Thailand that is affecting hard drive production.
The damage from flooding could keep factories closed for months so manufacturers who have […]
IP Video Storage - RAID
I briefly touched on IP video surveillance storage options in a previous post.
Ronen Issac, over at the Security Info Watch Blog, has done a much better job, including some very useful graphics, at explaining the intricacies of the redundant storage system known as RAID.
From his post, Overview of RAID for IP Video Storage:
Storage is a big part of […]
IP Camera Storage - New Media
I’ve been talking about the different video storage options for your IP surveillance system and I happened across a good article that goes into more detail about server-based, network-based, and camera-based storage architectures. Additionaly, the redundant storage options that focus around RAID and hot standby servers.
There’s an interesting mention too about the growing capacity and reliablity of […]