I want to deploy a Win10 VM with BlueIris. As far as I remember the software writes to destination in continuous/looped fashion. Each camera generates its own filestream, cut into whatever time segments you choose. You also define a max cap for all the recordings. Once it's reached, the oldest files get deleted as new data flows in.

 

I have 2x6TB data drives + 1x6TB parity drive. Total available space 12TB. In BlueIris I configure the max recording cap of 10TB.

Time to configure the destination.

 

What's are the best practices configuring destinations for continuous recordings, which are always full at capacity and the files just get overwritten in a loop? Should I configure a standard UNRAID share? What do I do with the allocation method if the space is technically always full?

Do I even bother configuring UNRAID shares? Will ZFS work better? Cache Pool?

 

Edited January 19, 20224 yr by m-a-x

I have mine setup in the following way, if it helps. Also, I only have 6 cameras. See below:

 

• I have created Win10 pro VM with the passthrough for CPU.
• I have allocated 80GB for the system drive and also it acts as a "NEW FOLDER" with the 10GB limit for the new recorded clips. After the limit is reached the clips are moved to "STORED" folder which is located on the separate 4TB drive.
• I have 4TB drive setup as "UNALLOCATED DEVICE" in pass-through mode.