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It is not always easy to get a true idea of size and scale from the manufacturer’s ‘magazine shots’, and maybe you’d just like to see a bit more detail of the connections, or the buttons …
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QNAP’s VioStor range of NVRs are now available from our webshop.
QNAP are a well known ‘Quality Network Appliance Provider’.
Their award winning range of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are very well known and respected in the IT world.
They now have a great range of Network Video Recorder (NVR) devices, specifically designed and built as an optimised network appliance to record CCTV from IP cameras on your network.
We have added the following NVR models:
QNAP NVR-104P – up to 4 IP cameras recording to a single hard disc unit of up to 1 Terabyte capacity
QNAP NVR-104V – as above. The only difference is the mix of compatible camera manufacturers (essentially P for Panasonic, V for Vivotek).
QNAP VioStor VS-2008 – up to 8 IP cameras recording to two HDDs to max total capacity of 4TB
QNAP VioStor VS-2012 – up to 12 IP cameras recording to two HDDs to max total capacity of 4TB
QNAP VioStor VS-5012 – up to 12 IP cameras recording to five HDDs to max total capacity of 10TB
QNAP VioStor VS-5020 – up to 20 IP cameras recording to five HDDs to max total capacity of 10TB
QNAP VioStor VS-8024 – up to 24 IP cameras recording to eight HDDs to max total capacity of 16TB
QNAP VioStor VS-8032 – up to 32 IP cameras recording to eight HDDs to max total capacity of 16TB
QNAP VioStor VS-8040 – up to 40 IP cameras recording to eight HDDs to max total capacity of 16TB
All of the units are supplied without hard discs. You can very simply fit your own – see the series of unboxing photos for the VS-2008 to understand how simply the drives are fitted or replaced.
You can purchase your drives from us or any supplier of your choice – they use standard 3.5″ SATA HDDs.
Anyone who has ever had a drive fail inside a traditional Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and been told by the manufacturer that “replacing drives is a specialist job and that’ll be £500 please” feel free to exclaim your delight in the comments below.
QNAP have a great website dedicated to their NVRs at www.QNAPsecurity.com with loads of information and useful resources.
They are compatible with a wide range of IP cameras – you can check for the latest list of proven cameras here.
Finally, just in case there is any doubt, these units are supplied with CCTV recording software to record your IP cameras. They’ve just released a free firmware upgrade to further enhance the feature set of their built-in NVR software, but more on that in a later post …
H.264 video compression capability is built into all the latest generation IP cameras from Axis Communications.
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Follow this link to view the full range of Axis cameras and servers.
If you have any questions please feel free to use the comments below or to use our IP CCTV Forum.
Virgin Media are reducing the price of their 50Mbps service to just £28 per month from September 1st (if you also take a Virgin phone line).
This price/performance milestone is a significant step along the road to one big happy high performance inter-network.
As IP camera specialists we can see – “Any picture, from any place, and any time …” – and these performance boosts continue to make it an improving experience!
Virgin have also announced trials of 10Mbps uplinks – bearing in mind that it is the uplink speed of your camera (out there somewhere on the internet) that is often the performance limiting factor, then this too bodes well for future performance.
They have also begun trials of 200Mbps internet download speeds!
Not so long ago, in a land consisting of many peer-to-peer networks, 10Mbps was the fastest that you could connect to a machine six feet away …
Virgin claims that at 50Mbps you’ll be able to download a music track in just one second!
