I want to upgrade and old IBM NetVista A22p 229223U Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz? as a Home security center, with 2 cameras and a Q see 4 QSPDVR04 Channel PCI DVR Card. I know I'll have to get a bigger hard drive but will this run without any other upgrades? Should I try to increase the ram and if so, where can I find it?
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Art
IBM NetVista A22p 229223U Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz
512mb Memory (I think) 2 slots occupied
Windows XP 32 Bit Service Pack 3
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The specs listed for that board arer P3 with 512MB. I would go ahead and try it out with your existing machine and if you find it slow maybe upgrade the ram. You do want to get a video card if the system is currently using onboard video or had a really low performance card. Any recent card will be more than enough, even an old card would be fine as long as it supports DirectX 9.
Here's a link to the manufacturer requirements,
http://www.q-see.com/produ
Some of these video capture cards did have issues with certain motherboards and chipsets. While the IBM is probably not on any of their lists I think it would probably be fine. This is actually why I suggested going with the USB version.
Actual hard drive estimates are quite variable depending on the resolution, picture quality and frame rates. Even the content of a picture affects the storage to some degree, a busy picture does not compress as well. So you might want to give it a go with your existing drive(unless it is tiny) and see how it does then you would have a good gauge to make certain you get one large enough for your needs.
If you use motion activation it also cuts way down on storage used. Drives are pretty inexpensive and big and the current best price per GB will be tons of space for just 2 cameras.
Also you probably do not want to use a external drive unless it is eSATA. USB drives are fairly slow and might be disappointing for this application. A eSATA drive has the same performance as a internal drive, around 4 times faster than USB.
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by: FlooringProPosted on 2009-06-22 at 14:18:04ID: 24686625
Art,
I would think if all you were using this machine for was as a home security server, then your good to go. Essentially your biggest data hog is going to be the HDD and the read/write times asociated with that. Do you plan on recording in a loop, or using snapshots? Is it going to be hardwired to the cameras, or will you be using a wireless setup ? Is the recording in color or black and white? HD or std video?