Reliable Workstation Build Advice

[AA Ron]

Budget (including currency): 

Country: Europe 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CCTV Viewing Client

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Hi All, 

 

Long time lurker, first post.

 

I am looking for advice on new workstation builds for work, the main use for these workstation is viewing and playback of CCTV.

The system will be a viewing client for CCTV on 24/7, needs to be reliable and have remote management like vPro or IPMI. 

 

What my normal build looks like:

i7 7700

16GB Ram

500GB OS drive NVME or Sata NVME

 

I will take supermicro recommendations but really want to move away from them, nothing but problems the last year or so with boards failing and bad bios updates.

 

Also any advice on NVME vs Sata SSDs for reliability?

 

Thanks, 

Aaron

[jaslion]

7 minutes ago, AA Ron said:

Budget (including currency): 

Country: Europe 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CCTV Viewing Client

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Hi All, 

 

Long time lurker, first post.

 

I am looking for advice on new workstation builds for work, the main use for these workstation is viewing and playback of CCTV.

The system will be a viewing client for CCTV on 24/7, needs to be reliable and have remote management like vPro or IPMI. 

 

What my normal build looks like:

i7 7700

16GB Ram

500GB OS drive NVME or Sata NVME

 

I will take supermicro recommendations but really want to move away from them, nothing but problems the last year or so with boards failing and bad bios updates.

 

Also any advice on NVME vs Sata SSDs for reliability?

 

Thanks, 

Aaron

Depending on the cctv system you can just use a cctv box that then stores the data on a nas too.

If you really want a box depending on the amount of stream an intel celeron or amd athlon 220ge could even do the trick. vPro from intel is just a umbrella that has their hyperthreading and vtx/vtd stuff in it. Amd has alternatives for all of this. For video playback a gpu that can decode the streams/video well would be far more important. That is the reason you have those 8+camera cctv stations using a 4core random low end arm chip and still be totally fine.

Why the sata drive tho? It's for storage so a hdd for the files and a small ssd for boot should do.

[AA Ron]

Thanks for the reply jaslion, 

 

Let me clarify a few things,

• The system I am looking to build will be installed in a retail environment with 70 to 40 IP cameras.
• CCTV recording will be handled by a server onsite so no need for storage beyond OS drive with space to save clips of incidents. 
• Not many cameras will be streamed 24/7, 4 at a time would be the max so wouldn't need discrete graphics. (Also a GPU would be another point of failure.)

My real interest is finding a reliable motherboard with IPMI or alternative. 

Remote access at bios level is a life saver and saves travel costs and man hours