Cloud vs Local Recording: Monthly Plans vs a Recorder's 5-Year Cost
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In this lesson
You price a fictional cloud plan per camera and retention period, add up a local recorder's purchase, power and maintenance over five years and compare both as a cost per camera per month.
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Lessons in this course
- The Camera List: Resolution, Frame Rate, Recording Mode & a Bitrate Table Locked
- Bitrates by Day and Night: Codec Factors, Night Noise & the 24-Hour Average Locked
- Recording Modes: Continuous, Motion-Triggered & Scheduled – GB per Camera per Day Locked
- Retention Days: Total Terabytes, TB vs TiB & Headroom Locked
- Disks & Redundancy: Usable Capacity, Number of Disks and Cost per Usable TB Locked
- Network Load: Switches, Uplinks, Utilisation & Remote Viewing Locked
- Cloud vs Local Recording: Monthly Plans vs a Recorder's 5-Year Cost Locked
- Capstone: Design Sheet for Three Sites – Storage per Site, What-If Retention & a Chart Locked