Appendix A Hdd Capacity Calculation - ClearView Hawk04-HD User Manual

Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation

Calculate total capacity needed by each DVR 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.
In the formula:
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 DVR during scheduled video recording.
Step 4: According to Formula (4) to calculate total capacity (accumulation)
for all channels in DVR during alarm video recording (including motion detection).
d
means the bit rate, unit Kbit/s
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 DVR
In the formula：a% means alarm occurrence rate
q
that is the capacity of each
i
q d 8 3600 1024
i i
m q h D
= × ×
i i i
∑
c
q
T
i 1
∑
c
q m
T
i 1
i
q
that is needed for
T
m
i
q
that is needed
T
×a%
i
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(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)