NAS for NVR Surveillance - Before You Buy!

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[ShinyTechThings]

Processors with Intel's Quick Sync help offload the video encoding on a NAS or if you build your own Blue Iris surveillance solution. Intel's quick sync also can be utilized by software such as Plex if you have a Plex pass using hardware and coding instead of raw CPU cores and this is why you can have a Celeron processor in a NAS with surprisingly good support for more than enough streams for most households running Plex.

[smartnothard]

First NAS vid I ever watched! Very informative and this is how the pros do it after all! I was only after a night wifi cam (some mofo keyed my car - good luck seeing anything with regular which are 30-150… then I thought hmmm ring….. then I saw reolink and nest… then I arrived to hikvision. Then darkfighter cams. The I got to NAS and synology. Then I started checking the bank. Then I factored the cost of repeating my keyed car…. Love life!!! True story.

[sal]

Built a Blue Iris system on a used ebay desktop and a Synology 916+ for Plex and four 24/7 Dahua camera recording... works fine. Replaced all Ironwolves with Synology when one wolf died after 5 years. I do hear the drives chugging away.

[tlfioyd]

QVR Pro also now requires a RAID setup, so it forces you to double your spending on hard-drives.

[andresvaldevit]

I don't understand this thing about camera licenses. What if I want to use Raspberry Pi cameras with an open source software? I mean are these linceses dedicated to certain camera brands?

[qashraf]

Always creating a video about something I'm about to pull the trigger on!

[polo]

Thanks, That was a very informative video and a ton of info I did not know. Thanks again.

[SlavaTsarev]

excellent practical advice - thank you

[UmairVatao]

I know cameras keep writing, will the Ssd cache help in preventing the hdd keep spinning? I m hoping ssd can take chunk of data and write periodically.

[Andre]

Don’t like the idea that the camera licenses will expire! Hopefully this will be implemented on new QNAP’s or licenses being sold.

[ZafarU]

Can I use NAS Hard drive in NVR instead of Surveillance HDD?

[alexanders.]

How did surveillance exist before these hard drives were released? This is marketing and nonsense. Do you think your hard drive isn't spinning while you are not writing on it? Writing consistent stream is probably the easiest your hard drive can do.

[georgewashington]

Sounds like one is better off getting a NAS solution for general backups and then invest in a separate NVR with specialty HDDs.

[michaelpearson]

Can't u just add a SSD in the NAS and just use that drive for ur suvallance then have ur standard drives in raid 5 or 6 and just backup the ssd to the raid drives

[jaysingum]

Hi love your videos. Need your help i got an Asuator NAS with 4 bay hard drive slot. Looking for wifi outdoor camara. Any suggestions? Also can i use 2 of the hd slots for camera grade hard drive?

[EuroPC]

How about using say ironwolf pro for regular use and skyhawk formtthe cameras?

[aleksandertesenkov]

Great, informative video. It’s very useful for newbie but who want to do things right.

[doctorgadgetix]

Get "Smart" Cameras instead of a "Deep Learning" NVR/NAS?

[matth.imaging]

Regarding hard drives: can't you just install a separate drive in the NAS for NVR? So e.g. in a 4 bay NAS, install 3 WD Reds in RAID5 for your data and put a single WD Purple in the NAS for NVR (having its own storage pool)?

[ajastoa]

Is there a point in going HDD and not SSD?