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Show HN: CCTV Storage Calculator (Jvsg.com)

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We created a free web based calculator to estimate video archive storage space for your video surveillance system or simply for 1 camera you installed. The calculator also estimates required network bandwidth for IP cameras.

It is a web app (Javascript+React) that runs in a browser or on a tablet or a smartphone.

Presently, the most common compression codecs are H.264 and H.265 . Their advantage is a high level of video compression, which saves space in the video archive. Motion JPEG compression is also supported. And here is a manual for the calculator https://www.jvsg.com/cctv-storage-calculator/

Today we launched the CCTV Storage Calculator on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cctv-storage-calculator

Looks like a handy tool to calculate the required hard drive size to store videos from CC's in my art studio. Sometimes, I feel that one month archive isn't enough. I want to store more. I definitely should buy a new HHD. Your calculator has also confirmed this )

60 days is another very popular archive depth.

In some countries, for some types of buildings, the archive depth can be regulated by law. These can be buildings with a requirement for anti-terrorist measures, for instance, including sports facilities, facilities with a mass presence of people, and railway striations / airports.

If you have multiple disks it does worth to use them in RAID5 or RAID6 array.

The calculator will be useful if you need to know how to choose a hard drive for the DVR or microSD card for the security camera.

There are IP cameras with a microSD card slot. A memory card allows you to store the archive directly on the camera itself or duplicate the recording if a failure occurs in the local network. Simultaneously, many Video Management Systems , in the event of a loss of connection, can copy the missing archive from the camera memory card after restoring the network connection.

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