Why Large Surveillance Systems Fail: Storage Throughput Reality
Posted by James Everett on Feb 26, 2026
Why Large Surveillance Systems Fail (And It’s Not the Terabytes)
Most storage conversations start with retention days. How many TB. How many days. How many cameras.
But the real failure point in larger deployments is usually simpler.
The recorder can’t write fast enough when motion spikes across dozens of cameras at once.
Deployment takeaway
Capacity answers how m
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Why 4K Everywhere Is Not a Surveillance Strategy
Posted by Ted Perry on Feb 16, 2026
Why 4K Everywhere Is Not a Surveillance Strategy
A lot of surveillance projects fail for a predictable reason: the camera plan was built around resolution instead of evidence outcomes. “Let’s just do 4K everywhere” sounds safe, and it looks great in a demo. But in real deployments, that mindset creates unstable recording, shortened retention, overloaded networ
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