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Thanks again Phil appreciate all your assistance.

Also where does the information on support for 10TB drives come from? I can only see 6TB listed on the Hikvision website? DS-7700NI-I4/16P - Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. But it seems on the store page it says up to 10TB? Hikvision DS-7732NI-I4-16P 32 Channel Network Video...

Ah cool that IP67 rating sounds like it should be fine then. Wow that storage calculator says I may need a fair amount of storage, so how do these NVR's work storage wise with multiple bays I just add more drives and it fills one and moves to the next? The ANPR camera is going to be an...

Thanks Phil, appreciate all your help. I would have thought the Dome's might have been better sealed to keep the microscopic dust out? Regarding storage what do you typically recommend? Do these NVR's do RAID? Is it better with just a single drive, 2 drives in a RAID 1 or 3 in a RAID 5 etc...

Yeah thanks for the information, from the reading I initially did it seems with the newer h.265+ codec the bandwidth is less of a problem these days? I can understand the RAID/ additional drive support as well but seeming as the hdd drive capacity is getting bigger and cheaper it also doesn't...

Thanks Phil, is there any reason I would want to look at the 9600 series NVR's? I note they don't have PoE and would need a separate PoE switch if i wanted to run the cameras via PoE at a glance? Otherwise the DS-7732NI-I4/16P model looks decent and not too bad on pricing from what I can see...

Hi All, New to the site hoping I can get some assistance from some of you experienced people. Bit of background, I am looking at options for our Strata security requirements. I am not in the security business myself and haven't personally setup any of these type of camera systems before but I...