Most Recent Reports on Storage

SD Card's Future for Video Surveillance Storage on Aug 18, 2009
SD cards are gaining attention as their use in the consumer world for digital cameras, smartphones and laptops increases significantly. In the video surveillance market, it is becoming increasingly...

How Much Storage is Needed for Video Surveillance? on Aug 15, 2009
How much storage is needed for video surveillance is an important question for planning new system deployments and for determining total installation cost. In the last few years, fears have increa...

Calculating Storage/Bandwidth For IP Video Surveillance on Jul 26, 2009
How to calcuate IP video storage and bandwidth is one of the most frequently requested topics. While plenty of 'calculators' are available, the numbers they generate are usually imprecise guesses s...

Should You Use Cameras With Built In Storage? on Jun 21, 2009
Many surveillance cameras are now offering on-board storage, enabling the camera to capture and record video all-in-one, thus turning the camera into a recorder (or as some vendors are calling it -...

Storage Manufacturers Enter NVR Market on May 15, 2009
Competition in the NVR market is heating up with a number of new options for video surveillance professionals to consider. In the last few months, well funded startups Intransa and Pivot3 have both...

How Costly are Hard Drive Failures? on Apr 29, 2009
Storage tends to be one of the more costly and problematic parts of video surveillance systems. Most video surveillance systems, even today, do not employ storage redundancy. When drives break, sys...

Advantages of RAID6 over RAID5 For Video Surveillance on Apr 15, 2009
For large scale video surveillance deployments, like casinos, the enhanced redundancy provided in RAID6 over  RAID5 is critical to minimizing video loss and ensuring system performance. [Note:...

Top 5 Problems in Video Surveillance Storage on Dec 21, 2008
Storage is one of the most confusing and debated aspects of video surveillance solutions. Continuously rising expectations for TV or HD quality combined with falling storage prices only makes the i...

Examining Video Surveillance Storage Clusters on Aug 06, 2008
In the next few years, we will see a significant transition away from storing video inside DVR/NVR servers. This 'on-board' storage will be replaced by clustered storage that communicates with ser...

How to Optimize NVR / DVR Storage on Jun 05, 2008
Megapixel cameras have brought renewed interest in measures to maximize NVR/DVR storage duration and use. Cost is a big factor as the potential storage needed could increase by 10x or more than hi...


Most Recent Industry Updates

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Storage Growth Examined by Frost on Oct 29, 2009
Frost & Sullivan presented October 2009 market status and projections for the physical security storage market (view their powerpoint presentation). In the presentation, they cite the governme...