Protectli

[_ndrsc_r]

Hello, looking for some advice for setting up my first NVR. Came across a company named Protectli. They have small form factor setups which are fanless, and seem decent for the price. I was looking at their model "VP2410," which has a Celeron J4125 CPU, as well as 8GB eMMC, and a spot for a 2.5" HDD. I'm hoping this would suffice for an NVR running BI, but I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable could give me better insight if it's worthy and compatible. I'm looking to run about 5 or 6 cameras (not 4K) at probably 30 fps.

Thanks!

[TimG]

Blue Iris tends to need more cpu power than that. The J4125 would be fine for a NAS, but BI5 - especially if you want to use AI - would need something more like an i7-8700k. BI5 also needs hard drives. I keep all BI5 data away from the Windows SSD, and then you still need large capacity 3.5" drives for storage.

[HeneryH]

My take is that an Intel with onboard iGPU and some compute cores should be good.

My machine (a HP ProDesk 600 G5 Mini - i7-9700T 8 core, 16GB DDR4) with four cameras 24x7 recording substreams and switching to main stream on events uses 36% of 16GB ram. It uses practically zero cpu.

[oops, forgot my cameras are offline now because I am trying to setup a protected vlan for my chinese cameras and I am not there yet so those stats are misleading.]

[_ndrsc_r]

Thank you all!