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Archive for February 2, 2009
Holy crap! A gizmo that lets you record up to 4 cameras on any PC
February 2, 2009 by admin.
Will you look at this! To the left you see a USB plug that you can stick into any PC, laptop/desktop any PC, and record up to 4 different video signals at once. It costs just $22! That’s right $22!
If you ever wanted to install a security system in your home or office you know how difficult it seems. Dedicate a desktop PC to the setup. Open the case, install the DVR card. Pray that it works and has the right drivers or settings. It took me 2 hours to set my office system up. Then, the easy part, plug in wired or wireless cameras and tell the computer to record the video.
That first part, installing the DVR card into a PC and devoting a PC to just recording security footage was difficult and expensive! In addition to the PC, I had to buy a $200 DVR card with software. With cheap wireless cameras getting cheaper every day, you can put together a reliable security system for home or office fast and easy.
A four camera system with front door, back door, garage and baby’s room or front yard window will record every person on your property. It will record the guy that steals your Sunday paper, the guy that snatches your “no signature” UPS delivery and the neighbor that lets his Great Dane poo on your sidewalk. It will also save you a run across the house to check your kid when you think you heard crying. It also makes it easy to see if the garage door is open. Read the rest of this entry »
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External RAID seemed like a great idea… seemed…
February 2, 2009 by admin.
In my never ending quest for backups of backups on a never ending array of external drives I invested in what seemed like just the ticket. It was a 4 bay external RAID system with full RAID features. That means a lot to video and computer artists. We use LOTS of drive space. In my most recent film there were 4.5 terabytes of footage. Not gigabytes, but TERAbytes. Working with the footage in real time requires a fast drive or at least 4 drives striped as RAID O(zero). In the case of four exactly the same drives striped as RAID O (zero) the drives would each multiply their actual speed. The four 7200 RPM drives would be 4 times faster because the RAID makes them look like one big drive to the computer.
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