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How to Size NVR Hard Drives Without Guessing (Retention Math That Holds Up) Every integrator has a storage-sizing story with the same shape: the calculator said 30 days, the customer signed for 30 days, and the recorder holds 16. The math w
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How to Decide Between Edge Storage and Centralized Recording Every video project eventually reaches the same fork: record at the camera, record at a central server or NVR, or some blend of the two. The debate usually gets argued on cost, an
Why Surveillance Storage RAID Rebuilds Bring Down the Whole Recorder The ticket never says "RAID rebuild." It says "cameras dropping randomly on the main recorder," or "playback is unusable," or my favorite, "the NVR is hacked." You remote
How to Size a Multi-Site VMS Architecture for 12 Buildings on Mixed WAN Multi-site VMS design goes wrong in the same place almost every time: someone sizes it like one big building instead of twelve small ones connected by links they don't
How to Build a Surveillance Audit Trail That Survives Legal Discovery I have watched a slip-and-fall case turn on whether anyone could prove a 42-second clip had not been altered between export and deposition. The video itself was fine. The
Why Multi-Sensor Cameras Burn More Storage Than Four Singles There's a line I hear on almost every design call for a parking lot or intersection job: "We'll use one multi-sensor instead of four cameras — same coverage, one license, one cabl
Why Cloud VMS Latency Wrecks Multi-Site Investigations The cloud VMS pitch is genuinely attractive: no servers in the closet, every site in one browser tab, someone else patches the platform. For live viewing and system health, it mostly de
Why Analog-to-IP Encoder Retrofits Beat Rip-and-Replace on Coax-Heavy Sites Every few weeks I look at a modernization proposal where a facility with forty working coax cameras is being quoted a full rip-and-replace — new IP cameras at every
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Marty Allison
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Access Control & Intercoms
Eden Phillips
Networking & PoE
Karl Wilson
Warehouse Automation
Ted Perry
NVRs & Storage
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Outdoor & Industrial
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