I am looking for a QNAP model that supports 1,024 camera channels on a single QNAP NAS. However, I couldn’t find any model that supports more than 200 channels.
Is there anyone who can help clarify this? I’d like to know how I can accurately verify the maximum number of camera channels supported by a single QNAP NAS.
It is the capability for project and when you wants to hold 1024 channels you also need a very big storage for your surveillance storage with our JBOD/PB solutions.
Mind to share more of your requirements and how you wants to use it?
We do say this on our QVR Surveillance web portal.
And it is our upper threshold per single NAS+JBOD stack for now and it was used for some projects with PB JBODs:
We done a project that a site with demands about 1000 camera, H265, keep recordings for 180 days that requires 4.5PB capability.
That’s why it is normally not listed in selector. Beause the configuration is definately for project.
Btw consider about the TOC, sometimes using multiple NAS stack with CMS (QVR Center) could manage high amount of cameras as well if not insisting to use one stack.
@HanzSung Recently, I’ve been working on several surveillance storage projects. The requirements are to support between 200 and 320 camera channels on a single QNAP NAS. Therefore, I’m trying to identify which QNAP model can meet these requirements.
There are no specific requirements for storage capacity or the number of drive bays—only the ability to support 200–320 camera channels on a single NAS.
@kidzsato support 320 channels is absolutely doable, but store 180 days of continuous 1080p H.265 recordings requires roughly 1.25 PB of usable storage, it will need about 100x 20TB HDDs, and put all on a NAS may be massive I/O load and single point of failure.
If recording 320 channels on one NAS is necessary condition, I will recommend use our QVR Vault to build a hybird surveillance architecture to ensure system stability and budget efficiency.
Primary NAS-A, use QVR Surveillance to record all 320 channels up to 30 days, it only require around 200 TB, keep the system fast and stable.
Backup NAS-BCD, use QVR Vault to backup the recording on NAS-A, each backup NAS can handle 110 channels for 180 days with 400 TB
