Re: IP CCTV and The Law?
 

I heard a case once where a telephone conversation was recorded without consent. In a court case this recording was offered as evidence, however because it was recorded without consent it was not allowed to be used. However, the fact remained that the recording did exist and that the jury heard that it had taken place. Enough so that the case fell apart after this point. Good news depending on what side you were.
I guess it really depends on the motives for having cctv and the rules around it, I dont feel comfortable on my work cctv. Just let me get on with my job and trust goes a long way.

Re: IP CCTV and The Law?
 

I'm under NDA, I know I haven't named the council, but better if I drop you a PM.

Use the camera vendor's pre-sales support though, if you give them your resolution, fps, expected traffic/number of record activations per day, and your retention policy, they should be able to tell you how much storage you need to start off with. Obviously this will need to be scalable as the data may grow quickly depending upon your retention policies. It will only need to be low cost/low availability storage anyway, DAS full of SATA will probably be sufficient.

Re: IP CCTV and The Law?
 

One way I could do it is by expanding my MSA2312FC by 4 more shelves (12TB at Raid 5 = 11TB per shelf). That is quite expensive though.

What storage have you seen used?



EDIT: Note to self: read PM's before posting.

Re: IP CCTV and The Law?
 

Camera system and capacity required aside, I'd imagine you'd treat it the same as any other low cost storage, MSA 60 SAS disk shelves or similar.

But, if you already have the SAN controller and the fibre fabric, then you'd only be adding the same disks and similar cost shelves as you would have to by going the MSA60 route, what makes it expensive is not the upgrade itself, but the fact you are taking capacity away from your fibre attached SAN that you may need later for an application with higher availability and performance needs. If your never going to use that SAN for anything else, then it won't be much different in terms of cost to upgrade it, compared with starting from scratch with DAS.

Re: IP CCTV and The Law?
 

Look at infotrend SAN/iSCSI/SAS products, good thing is you get a proper SAN storage unit but using the HDDs you want, a full infotrend 16 disk SAN with dual controlers could be well under 10k for 16TB(raw).

Look at span.com for storage requirements, they do the whole infotrend line.