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April 28, 2014 12:57:53 PM

I recently had a break in at my small business, and think it's important for me to keep a better history of surveillance recordings. I currently have 16 cameras running 24/7 previously just used the cameras to watch in real time or hold a few days of recordings, so here's my plan:

Replace 1tb hdd in dvr with 3tb wd purple (maxed out)
My Q See DVR allows me to go the ip address of the dvr and download all video from a certain date range to a pc in normal video format, but I currently don't have a suitable computer. I have built a few computers for my own use in the past but nothing like this, here are my thoughts so far:

Eight 4tb WD Red drives, in RAID 6 running off of an intel or lsi raid controller
an extra wd red on hand if a drive fails
SSD boot drive
cooler master storm trooper case because I've built in it before and it has enough bays and won't move the hot air from the hard drives into the main part of the case (the case brings in air on one side, over the hdd's and exhausts out the other side of the case, near the front)
Asus Sabertooth z87 mobo
intel i5-4670
some type of solid PSU like a corsair AX series
molex to sata cables if needed for drives
8gb RAM

Then every week or so, I would download the security cam data from the DVR for longer term safekeeping on a computer that will give me easy access should I ever need to pull a recording up. The computer may not need a sabertooth board or an i5, but I'd like to have a nicer work computer as well for my office so this could kill two birds with one stone. I also considered a Drobo, but I'm concerned about a malfunction in the system itself. If something in a custom computer fails I can get parts and repair it fairly quickly, but if the drobo system failed, I would likely be down for a longer period of time.

What do you think?

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April 28, 2014 1:21:28 PM

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($80.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($174.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master Storm Trooper ATX Full Tower Case ($162.81 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $990.73
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-28 16:19 EDT-0400)

Here it is with one of those Red drives. Your going to spend around 1600 for the drives. Also, you don't need the Sabertooth, the gigabyte board has 10 sata drives so your good.

Also a link for the Molex to Sata cables:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-Molex-Power-Adapter-SATA...

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