Reddit mentions of Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac (STGY8000400)

Assuming an iPhone spec camera, that would equal 170mb per minute of 4K30 or 400mb per minute of 4K60. They would record at approximately 2.8mb/s and 6.67mb/s.

An 8TB hard drive with write speed of 160mb/s should have more than enough bandwidth to handle 4K60 recording. This HDD.

How much can you record on an 8TB hard drive?

8TB is 8 million megabytes so dividing it by (400*60) would give us 333.333 hours of footage. That’s about 13.8 days of footage at 4K60

Most security cameras overwrite footage so using an 8TB hard drive would give you almost 2 weeks of footage you can go back on before it’s overwritten. That’s enough time for law enforcement to grab a copy of the footage.

At 4K30, that gives you 32.6 days of footage. So it doesn’t have anything to do with storage. I’m guessing the initial costs just don’t seem to justify the increased resolution for most business owners.

This system costs $630 for four 4K cameras and 2TB storage. Whereas a system with four 720p cameras like this costs $170. That’s almost 4 times the initial cost. Still sucks in cases like these though.

Edit: as someone pointed out this data is true for 1 camera. If you do 8 cameras you can compress the footage to 50% of its original size without major loss of data for more efficient storage. Or compress anyways for double the timespan.

However if all you need is to go back 7 days on footage at 4K30, two 8TB hard drives will provide that with compression on 8 cameras. Regardless, it’s still not astronomically expensive.

Yes, the drive inside is a Seagate Barracuda ST8000DM004.

These two enclosures have the same drive.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Seagate+Desktop+8TB&qid=1574346937&sr=8-2

Here is much more bang for your buck.

Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac (STGY8000400) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0jH0Db8WVK9Z2

I'm not very server literate, but if you're looking to store data you no longer need but do not seem to want to delete just in case, would buying something like this be an option? Or even a normal HDD and then running a SATA to USB cable, which would be cheaper but imo less durable.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Drive-STGY8000400/dp/B07CQJBSQL

found this $120. each

Shouldn't be that difficult, depending where you are in the world. Here's an 8tb external drive for $139 which works out to $17/tb. That particular drive is relatively slow, but there are faster ones available. I bought 6 10tb SAS drives for $170 each a year ago.

What's the difference between these two Seagate externals?

Seagate Expansion Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop - Amazon: $139.99/Newegg: $139.99

Seagate Desktop 8TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac - Amazon: $139.99/Newegg: $219.99

So if I am not wrong :

- zfs on 1 disk : can detect bitrot but can't fix it.

- zfs on raid1/5/6 : can detect bitrit and can fix it.

If I use Raid1, what is the chance a unfixable bitrot happen.

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Also, I plan to backup on external disk like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=external+8+to&qid=1551347179&s=gateway&sr=8-1 .

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But i supposed I will have another headache because bitrot can happen on my external drives 🤦. Should I create a raid over usb...

I got this Seagate 8tb drive last black Friday for around $120 and it works great with my Xbox.

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Edit-links

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Drive-STGY8000400/dp/B07CQJBSQL

so... something like this would be good though?

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL/

if you used the power plug as well as the USB connection?

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> And also it is a reused NUC.

reusing parts FTW.

What are you looking to do with it?

If you are looking for performance, the WD black 4TB is on sale on amazon for $50 cheaper than newegg (ordered one myself as my main drive for photo/video editing):

https://www.amazon.com/Black-4TB-Performance-Hard-Drive/dp/B0792G331G/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=wd%2Bblack%2Bdrive&psr=PDAY&qid=1563204936&s=prime-day&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=1-2&th=1

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If you are just looking for max space to drop a bunch of files and stuff, then these are good options: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Drive-STGY8000400/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hard+drive&psr=PDAY&qid=1563205113&s=prime-day&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=1-3

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Drive-STGY8000400/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=hard+drive&psr=PDAY&qid=1563205113&s=prime-day&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=1-3

Hard drives are becoming cheaper and cheaper. Wtf https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CQJBSQL for $125 i can get 8tb. Also you can backup games that you want you don't have to back all of them.