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<blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 89847" data-attributes="member: 152"><p>I worked on digital surveillance systems for a living from 2003 to 2006, so I'm aware of the history. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>And actually, the biggest challenge in those days was not video quality or storage capacity. The problem was that hard drive manufacturers did not make a drive designed for near-100% duty cycles. (Even server drives tend to be very bursty in their read/write patterns.) Our systems, in contrast, wrote to disk all day every day. So our machines would literally destroy their own drives from all the constant video recording, especially at higher framerates. I wrote software to optimize the write patterns to cut down on the amount of back-and-forth the read/write heads had to do, but it wasn't until Seagate came out with their SV35 drive, specially designed for video storage, that we could stop regarding hard drives as a consumable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sean DonCarlos, post: 89847, member: 152"] I worked on digital surveillance systems for a living from 2003 to 2006, so I'm aware of the history. ;) And actually, the biggest challenge in those days was not video quality or storage capacity. The problem was that hard drive manufacturers did not make a drive designed for near-100% duty cycles. (Even server drives tend to be very bursty in their read/write patterns.) Our systems, in contrast, wrote to disk all day every day. So our machines would literally destroy their own drives from all the constant video recording, especially at higher framerates. I wrote software to optimize the write patterns to cut down on the amount of back-and-forth the read/write heads had to do, but it wasn't until Seagate came out with their SV35 drive, specially designed for video storage, that we could stop regarding hard drives as a consumable. [/QUOTE]
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