I've been experimenting with SSDs in NVRs for some time now. I put a 2 terabyte WD Red in a Ubiquiti CK2+ and it's been running with 8 camera setup for 27500 hours now, which is around 3+ years.

A lot of people said the drive would wear our almost instantly with all the writing happening, but I've been monitoring the SMART values for the drive's wear and after those 3 years we are at 91% of expected life left. At this pace it will most likely outlive the device, that is actually pretty impressive on its own as it's one of the very early CloudKey 2+ units ever released.

It lived with an actual HDD until the LiPo battery inside decided to become a spicy pillow and I had to take the thing apart. The HDD got upgraded at that point as well.

A year or two after that Ubiquiti released their own SSD based variant, so they also concluded a SSD will probably work in long term as well.

#ssd #nvr

Technical Report - SmartHomeFehler: Lorex

Lorex NVR: Loud Grinding Noise From Fan

#Lorex #NVR #Loudgrindingnoisefromfan

🔍 Full Report: https://www.digitalhomefaults.org/lorex/nvr/lorex-nvr-fan-grinding-noise

I had to collect surveillance videos from various of private houses and businesses a lot recently.

I came across a variety of NVRs many of which were a challenge for my nerves and mental health.

Example 1:
Exporting a 15 minute sequence of 2 cameras. After 1.5 hrs the status display switched from 0% to 1%.

Example 2:
This specific NVR allowed only to set a starting time for the export. The end time was chosen _randomly_ by the NVR itself. Sometimes 2 minutes, sometimes 1 hour after the start time. The 6 hour span which should be exported was done for 3 cameras in ~15-20 chunks each.

I don't know what the developers of such systems were up to ... but while doing the video exports I had thoughts about flogging them in public.

#rant #nvr #videosurveillance

Smart Home Diagnostic (Lukas): Lorex

Lorex NVR: Hard Drive Format Failed - Troubleshooting Guide

#Lorex #NVR #FormatFailed

🔍 Full Report: https://www.digitalhomefaults.org/lorex/nvr/lorex-nvr-hard-drive-format-failed

Raspberry Pi CM5 mini-ITX-compatible carrier board features up to nine Ethernet ports for NVR, Smart Home, and Edge AI applications

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/26/raspberry-pi-cm5-mini-itx-compatible-carrier-board-features-up-to-nine-ethernet-ports-for-nvr-smart-home-and-edge-ai-applications/

New API integration in VibeNVR.

Read-only access tokens for dashboards like gethomepage.dev.

JWT-secured, pull metrics: cameras, events, storage, uptime.

https://github.com/spupuz/VibeNVR

#VibeNVR #OpenSource #NVR #Surveillance #API #SelfHosted #Docker