Hello, Eddie Shaw here. Building a video storage NAS for a blue iris NVR computer. Planning on using a dedicated NIC connected to the TrueNAS NIC set up as an ISCSI target drive. That will be its only connected traffic receiving only camera video. I have an old Compaq that came with an 760GM-E51 M…

While your hardware “might” be able to support what you desire, you need to ask yourself how important your data is. If it is very important then you will want to meet certain minimal specs, like ECC RAM for example. When running ISCSI as I understand it, for optimal speed you need to leave 50% or…

I found some posts after I posted this about my hardware. I have to figure out searching posts on the site better. I google searched some questions about it and got several hits from this site that I didn’t find searching the site. Crazy. I’m definitely going to revisit ISCSI. I had not come across…

Hello Ed. Is there a particular need/requirement that you access your data via iscsi? Seems unnecessary but perhaps you could elaborate? I would suggest building something with newer hardware. Hardware released within the last decade that supports PCIe 3.0 would be a good start. Just my opinion.

I suspect Ed will find out his old hardware will be loud and eat up power. Not ideal for something you want to run all the time, especially if it is recording security camera footage for example. But it would be a good platform (if it runs) to test out TrueNAS. Eventually if Ed likes TrueNAS, ser…

I am just truly curious where iscsi came from. Looking at blue iris I can see it’s a software solution for recording security camera footage. I don’t know much about it. Perhaps Ed could elaborate on his use case a bit further. There may be other ways to control your camera and their data. For exa…

And of course I have a different perspective as well. If it were me (speaking just for myself) and I was creating a TrueNAS for the explicit use of recording home security video, I would run a Mirror, just two drives. Low RPM, probably 4TB (you need to determine how much footage you need to retain…

Using a windows based NVR and being confined to less powerful hardware you find that the more cameras you add the more overhead you create writing to local drives. I will need a minimum of 6 4tb drives to get the recording days I would like. You get to a point that the computer is just working to ha…

SATA3 is significantly faster than 1GbE connection so I don’t see you needing an HBA if you have enough SATA ports already. If not, guess you will need an HBA. A modern 1GbE NIC will automatically crossover, no need for special crossover cables. Good luck on your project, sounds interesting. I w…

I think it’s worth rethinking the whole solution if you have the budget to entertain it. There may be a much better way to handle a surveillance deployment like this. I know for a fact that the last 10+ years that security footage/video ingest in general has been a target vertical of NAS solutions w…

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Davvo April 13, 2024, 12:05pm 7

I would suggest a RAIDZ layout given your use case means constant streaming writes.

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