Appendix A Hdd Capacity Calculation - CP Plus CP-UNR-1xxQ1 Series User Manual

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Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation

Calculate total capacity needed by each device according to video recording (video recording type
and video file storage time).
Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity
channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Step 2: After video time requirement is confirmed, according to Formula (2) to calculate the
m
storage capacity , which is storage of each channel needed unit Mbyte.
i
Step 3: According to Formula (3) to calculate total capacity (accumulation)
all channels in the device during scheduled video recording.
Step 4: According to Formula (4) to calculate total capacity (accumulation)
all channels in device during alarm video recording (including motion detection).
 
q d 8
i i
d
In the formula: means the bit rate, unit Kbit/s
i
m q
=
i
In the formula:
h
means the recording time for each day (hour)
i
D
means number of days for which the video shall be kept
i
c
In the formula: means total number of channels in one device
In the formula：a% means alarm occurrence rate
q
that is the capacity of each
i
 
3600 1024
h D
× ×
i i i
c


q m
T i

i 1
c


q m
×a%
T i

i 1
(1)
(2)
q
that is needed for
T
(3)
q
that is needed for
T
(4)
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