Thanks a lot for the replies!
Here's some more info to answer questions:
The OS HDD is a 60GB SSD and the data drive is a WD Green drive
CPU is a XEON, I think it's a version or so back from the newest, I have one of my colleagues looking for this info as I'm not in front of the system at the moment (in another state). I logged in and pulled a Belarc though. .
INTEL SSDSC2CT060A3 [Hard drive] (60.02 GB) -- drive 0, s/n CVMP213601TS060AGN, rev 300i, SMART Status: Healthy
Kingston DT 101 G2 USB Device [Hard drive] (15.60 GB) -- drive 2
WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WCAZAF824551, rev 51.0AB51, SMART Status: Healthy
2.13 gigahertz Intel Xeon (2 installed)
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (8 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Memory 24GB
24568 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM_A1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM_C1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM_D1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM_E1' has 4096 MB
Slot 'DIMM_F1' has 4096 MB (serial number SerNum6)
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Z8NA-D6(C) Rev 1.xxG
Serial Number: 120902201300079
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1303 05/10/2012
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series [Display adapter]
Some more background:
We may try H.264 but H.264 = less bandwidth, more processing however and would probably mean more servers and therefor more $.
The app we're using to view (recording being done by other servers, viewing only on this system) only supports 64 cameras at a time (3 video servers, there are 6 total, each server sending 30mbps for total of 180mbps)
There will actually be about 124 cameras total that in the end need to be watched, but as of now watching just 40 kills the CPU, and increasing to 60 is definitely not happening.
So we need to run two instances of the view app, but running just one is like DOSing ourselves.
Looks like a self-DOS'ing until we can get at least one other system configured! Thanks a lot for your help. I will follow up when we get a solution in place.