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Hi all,
We have a bunch of Synology boxes: a central camera server (DS1513+) at our office, with 17 cameras on it, and 5 remote camera servers at remote locations, each with either a DS713+ or DS216+II. We have about 40 cameras total. (We also have a RS3614RPxs but that strictly does backups)
Ignore the remote cameras for now - our connections to the remote camera servers are not adequate for the cameras we have, and I know that. So let's concentrate on the central office cameras.
Before I started working here, all the cameras were about 20+ years old and only 704x480 resolution. I've been working to upgrade them to 4K UHD (3840x2160), and only have a few to go.
When I first started upgrading, the camera system was "passable". The Timeline app for local cameras was a little slow, but not unbearably so. But as I've been upgrading, it has become a lot slower, close to unusable, even with local cameras, on a nice fast 100Mb & 1Gb network. So clearly the DS1513+ needs an upgrade.
The question is:
If we invest in a another rackmount behemoth like the RS3621RPxs, will that solve our problem? Does anyone out there have, say, 20+ cameras on one of the rackmount beasts and is Timeline nice and responsive? Before I go to the boss and ask for $3500, I'd just like to know that it will make a substantial improvement.
We have a bunch of Synology boxes: a central camera server (DS1513+) at our office, with 17 cameras on it, and 5 remote camera servers at remote locations, each with either a DS713+ or DS216+II. We have about 40 cameras total. (We also have a RS3614RPxs but that strictly does backups)
Ignore the remote cameras for now - our connections to the remote camera servers are not adequate for the cameras we have, and I know that. So let's concentrate on the central office cameras.
Before I started working here, all the cameras were about 20+ years old and only 704x480 resolution. I've been working to upgrade them to 4K UHD (3840x2160), and only have a few to go.
When I first started upgrading, the camera system was "passable". The Timeline app for local cameras was a little slow, but not unbearably so. But as I've been upgrading, it has become a lot slower, close to unusable, even with local cameras, on a nice fast 100Mb & 1Gb network. So clearly the DS1513+ needs an upgrade.
The question is:
If we invest in a another rackmount behemoth like the RS3621RPxs, will that solve our problem? Does anyone out there have, say, 20+ cameras on one of the rackmount beasts and is Timeline nice and responsive? Before I go to the boss and ask for $3500, I'd just like to know that it will make a substantial improvement.