Anyone running Blue Iris on a mini pc? What HDD are you using?

[dannieboiz]

In effort to reduce electricity cost I moved blue iris from the PC with an i7 6700 and 32gb of RAM to a mini PC with an i7-1360p, 32gb ram. To my surpise without a GPU the CPU is only running at 6% idle and never saw it went past 40% even with AI detection while, the PC with a GTX1650 handling AI would constantly spike to 100% and crashes. I did minimal change when moving the system over, just restored Blue Iris from the other machine.

Anyways, the Mini PC have 2 NVME slots and a single sata for 2.5 hdd. I only have a single 1TB NVME in there now partiion with 700gb for recordings and moving the data to a NAS for storage. Trying to figure best approach to take the recording duty off the single HDD. Are there 2.5" surveillance drives available or any other drives that's suitable for the task?

 

[dwheeler]

I built a mini ITX system with Ryzen 5 and 32GB RAM. I am using the Velkase Velkase 3 the smallest case I could find. Only two fans. The CPU fan and the GPU fan. Works well and does not over heat over load.

 

[dannieboiz]

I built a mini ITX system with Ryzen 5 and 32GB RAM. I am using the Velkase Velkase 3 the smallest case I could find. Only two fans. The CPU fan and the GPU fan. Works well and does not over heat over load.

My original plan was to do an mITX build with an i5 13600 hoping to ditch the power hungry GPU but I had the MiniPC sitting around so I decided to test it first w/o spending a bunch of money, so far in the last 24 hours it's been pretty solid. I'm going to let it do its thing for a week before calling this a win.