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External Hardrive Price

superblu · 2014-06-07 12:04:02

I recently installed a CCTV system in a business I own. However there is a very poor memory capacity on the system. It only keeps about 10 days footage. I am pretty inept when it comes to this sort of stuff. I was just wondering how much it would cost to buy an external hard drive with 2TBs of memory so I could back up my…

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07-06-2014 1:04pm

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superblu

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I recently installed a CCTV system in a business I own. However there is a very poor memory capacity on the system. It only keeps about 10 days footage. I am pretty inept when it comes to this sort of stuff. I was just wondering how much it would cost to buy an external hard drive with 2TBs of memory so I could back up my footage manually on a weekly basis. I have 8 cameras running. Would 2TBs be enough to sustain me for a long time.

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#2 07-06-2014 4:54pm
riclad

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http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1923870.htm

OR look in any branch of maplins ,pcworld.

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#3 07-06-2014 7:10pm
bonzodog2

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You may be able to reduce the space needed by tweaking image size, framerate, output format and maybe using motion detection

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#4 07-06-2014 10:15pm
mordeith

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How much storage are you currently working off?

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