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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    Not sure if this makes a difference in what you said, but the computer is a slim tower and there was only space for a single drive. The other drives I listed are partitions in the same drive. I have installed Blue Iris on the c: and planned to use d: to store the video and can use e: for other...
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    The camera GUI is set for h264. Earlier from following one of the guides I had selected from the BI camera settings video tab to use hardware decode for Intel + VPP, but after some other tweaks or changes now that is no longer selected (for grins and giggles I have set it back since either way...
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    I’m not sure which of my troubleshooting altered the sub streams as both cameras were showing activity for both streams yesterday and CPU usage had dropped to about 9% prior to the recent changes.
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    Sorry, a bit technologically challenged. Somehow the order got mixed up.‍♂️
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    Thank you, I have implemented those suggestions except I haven’t found an option to allocate a % of your hard drive to BI
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    At the moment I only 2 cameras running: in the front which is well lit I have a 8MP Dahua IPC-T2831T-ZS and in the rear which is dark unless my motion lights go off, I have a 2MP IPC-T3241T-ZAS
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    All cameras are showing that they are continuously recording, but no clips can be found

    I have a Dell Optiplex 5040 i7 6700 3.4 GHz small form factor with 16 GB RAM and a an 8 TB WD red 7200 RPM drive used solely for Blue Iris. Just installed my cameras and Blue Iris yesterday but despite it appearing like everything is operating normally, there are no video clips to be found...
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    Frustrating hard drive issues

    I have run all my cables up the walls and through my roof, installed my cameras, bought Blue Iris (haven’t downloaded it yet), found an i7 workstation and put 16 GB RAM in it, but since it was a mini tower it only had space for a single drive. I cloned the original 500GB drive and installed an...
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    Camera Gurus: Please share your thoughts....

    No luck on finding the OEM on that brand from the sales people, but I will keep digging. Thank for your input on the Reolink. That puts me back at square 1, but its better than moving forward unprepared and being disappointed later. thanks for your feedback
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    Camera Gurus: Please share your thoughts....

    I see a lot of cam reviews and recommendations on the same makes on here (Amcrest, Dahua, Foscam, Hikvision), but I haven’t found much on Cortex. Are they a rebrand of one of these before mentioned brands? If not, how do they compare in terms of product quality and performance capability? My...