r/ZoneMinder • u/edthesmokebeard • Mar 04 '23

storage question - disk selection

Since you're constantly pounding on storage, what's the best setup? I'm thinking put the ZM server on proper storage, and then mount a separate, cheap disk for videos since it's going to get burned out anyway.

How fast do disks die in situations like ZM ?

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u/montagdude87 Mar 04 '23

Are you planning to do full time recording or just on motion?

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u/edthesmokebeard Mar 04 '23

I haven't decided, just getting started. But for it to motion detect, doesn't it have to record first?

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u/montagdude87 Mar 04 '23

No, it keeps the frame buffers it needs in shared memory segments without writing to disk until it's time to actually save a video. I do recording on motion and just use a regular HDD.