“If I use 8 cameras and record continuously, approximately how many days of recording can fill up an 1 TB hard drive? I like to store 1 month of recordings. Is 1 TB enough or I will need bigger capacity.”
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i have a 2TB night owl Hard drive and have 8 cmaeras as well, i you set the camreas to record 24/7 than its going to chew up the space very fast. The hard drive is a toshiba just like you would find in a very low-end cpu. Unless you are wanting to record the waves in the ocean than your best bet would be to set the camera to record motion only, otherwise you are going to record much of nothing. just think how fast a video you record on your phone takes up space. One video thru one camera 1 min. is about 100mb give or take. So for 8 cameras 24/7 you are looking at a lot of space or you can set the hd to overwrite.. hope this helps
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Dear customer, The storage capacity of your system will depend on the setup and usage of the cameras, per example, if your system is (by default) recording on motion record and there is a huge amount of traffic movement there will be more recordings hence more storage space used. camera quantity will also be a big factor. as a rule of thumb: Recording by: Motion – 4 cameras and 500g HDD = 6g x 4 cameras = 24g per day. (Approximately 20 days) Recording: 24 hours – 4 cameras and 500g HDD = 10g x 4 cameras = 50g per day (Approximately 12 days) There is not exact measurement as there can be as many variables in place in every DVR, camera quantity, camera definition analog or high definition and type of recording. Best Regards.
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