Ted Roche wrote:
Mike:
HDD capacity is one thing; what are you looking at for bandwidth and
throughput? HD video is a real hog; a dozen streams are going to put a lot
of stress on networks, switches and controllers. If there's a bottleneck,
like all of the streams pouring through one network connection to the HDD
controller, that's likely to be the holdup.
Here's a handy calculator that might give you some ideas about the
capacities you've got to be thinking about:
http://www.stardot.com/bandwidth-and-storage-calculator
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
Thanks Ted!
True that...the unit I got a price for today had dual 1GB NICs with a
Quad-core Zeon processor and used SATA 6 I/O for the drives. I don't
have much info about the current box, but I know it is only using a
single GB NIC interface. The tech that installed it admitted that his
company hadn't installed a system that large before and that they were
kind of groping around as to what the best setup would be.
As of now, the owner, my client, has the info and he has to decide
whether he wants to jeopardize the good relationship he has with the
security company by wanting to bring in a 'solution' from another
source. Hopefully they'll be accommodating. Time will tell.
Mike
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