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Surveillance-Grade Storage Array

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Surveillance-Grade Storage Array

Desktop hard drives fail early in CCTV service because surveillance is a continuous sequential write workload running every hour of every day, not the intermittent read pattern a consumer drive is designed for. This expansion array uses purpose-built surveillance drives with rotational vibration tolerance for multi-bay chassis and firmware tuned to prioritise stream continuity over error retry. It attaches to the NVR to extend retention to the 30, 60 or 90 days your policy or insurer requires, with drive health monitored and reported rather than discovered during an incident.

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Technical specifications

Drive class
Surveillance-rated, 24/7 continuous duty
Workload
Up to 550TB/year
Bays
8, 12 or 16 bay expansion chassis
Interface
eSATA / iSCSI to host NVR
Redundancy
RAID 5/6 with hot spare
Monitoring
SMART health reporting and predictive failure alerts
Retention
Sized to 30 / 60 / 90 day policy

Exact models are specified against your site survey. Full manufacturer datasheets are issued with the formal quotation.

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