We've come up against a technical limitation of our system, recording 8 MJPG streams works fine apart from the point at which the auto segmentation (new file after 10 minutes) creates the new files.
We get a .5 to 1s glitch in the video stream (all of them) so the drive just cant cope at that point.

We have tried a test with an SSD and this eliminated the issue (we had a small, spare SSD to test with) .
I am looking at getting a 1tB capture SSD, either a Samsung Evo 850 or Evo 850 Pro.

However, I'm reading stuff about SSD drives not being suitable for video capture, they wear out.


So I thought I would check with people who have experience.
We will be using the multi-stream capture maybe several times a month for client work, rest of the time we'll just capture the main switch output so only one stream + Wav.

We have two sata ports available on the MOBO so could possibly consider a platter based RAID. Although we did try splitting the files to separate drives (4 on each) and got the same problem.

Many thanks for your help

I've had more IDE & SATA drives die on me than SSD's.

AFAIK raid can only come close to SSD on some operations, on the whole SSD's win hands down.

If you're moving your streaming unit around on location SSD's are a far better option IMO as there's no moving parts to rattle around.

I have found that SSD's are more prone to corruption if abused than an SATA's, by abused I mean hot plugged while reading/writing, power interruptions or hard quitting programs while they reading/writing to the drive.