Thank you for that tip!

Awesome answer. Thank you for all the detail. I will build the LAN using only a switch, 1 BI with substreams, and 16 POE cams at 2K/20fps. My offline storage will be 30TB to hold 30 days of data being a USB Disk Enclosure. I plan to record daily onto the PC hard drive and at night, while the cams ar...

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I am not the best on network config. I have 16 cameras recording 4MP and I believe I could saturate my 1GB network as my switches and router could be overrun with the streams. I am thinking I will need two BI clients and capture 8 cams on each with each on its own router. I don't believe 1 Windows 1...

I am no expert and since you are not receiving replies, I thought I would offer an opinion. Since BI uses the New and Stored folders, you can configure files to move from New folder to Stored folder on any disk you choose. Then there is software to automatically manage your files so you can copy, mo...