Hi All,

Have been reading the forums etc and am swamped buy the amount of info here (good thing!!). Need to know what you experts would do in this case...

Scenario: We are a small family run jewellery business, and have 35 cameras installed at the moment (some IR). We also have 4 x 16 channel DVRs. The reason for this being that 2 people in the office need to be able to freely monitor the cameras so the install guy split the BNC cable and physically wired a cable from each DVR pari to each office (YUCK!!)

What I want: Up to 64 Channels running into a PC, which can be viewed/controlled internally (from 2 different PCs over TCP/IP). I also want to be able to view the cameras via the internet (can open the relevant firewall ports). Internally, will need to see no more than 16 cameras at one time. Externally, the same (assuming the connection is fast enough)

Sorry to sound like a leech... there are really just too many options out there and I need to know the most cost effective one. For the PC, a P4, 512MB RAM, SATA RAID 5 w/caching controller should be ok right? Storage of around 320gig??

Thanks

Rajiv

64 into 1 PC is pushing it and will be very costly, PC needs to be the top of the line server, again, costly. If it were me I'd go with a (2) VideoInsight Servers and split 64 between them. You'll save money and it will work.

I've been installing the PC based for awhile and I can tell you that you need to plan the CPU to run at below 50% processing power becasue when ALL your camera start recording, or you edit video, or run anything else on the server, your going to top 100% real quick.