Camera Storage & Bandwidth Planner

Add camera groups with different bitrates and recording methods. Motion percentages are estimates of the actual time video is saved.

Retention (days)Capacity reserve (%)

Quick camera group templates

Camera groups

System storage sizing report

Estimated requirements

Video storage—

With reserve—

Daily video—

Peak camera bitrate—

Total cameras—

Motion recording comparison

All cameras continuous—

Configured recording—

Estimated storage saved—

Hard drive planning

Drive capacity (TB)Estimated usable fraction (%)

Estimated drives needed—

Estimated usable storage per drive—

Drive counts are simple capacity estimates, not a RAID design. Account separately for redundancy, hot spares, disk formatting, VMS overhead and vendor-supported drive configurations.

Group breakdown

Group	Cameras	Mode	Recorded %	GB/day	Total TB

Planning estimates use decimal units (1 TB = 1,000 GB), camera bitrate, recording schedule, and expected motion duty cycle. Peak bitrate is the sum of camera stream bitrates; actual network traffic may differ. Results exclude RAID redundancy, disk formatting, VMS database overhead and other system-specific requirements. Verify sizing against real camera data and VMS requirements.

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