SSD For CCTV - Is It Worth It?

Should you switch your CCTV system to SSD drives rather than the stock low speed surveillance drive that the system probably came with? That's what I'm talking about today as well as showing you how simple it is to change the drive in a basic CCTV recorder.
🛒 Samsung QVO 870 4TB Drive - geni.us/870qvo
🛒 Orico SSD Housing - geni.us/orico
To answer the question in the title. Probably not. There's nothing wrong with a slower spinning disc for CCTV. They're designed to run 24/7 and the technology is old and reliable. Unless you have a very specific reason to want SSD, I'd stick with what you've got. Watch the video for more info on what those specific reasons might be.
I'm not made of money so I'm looking at consumer, budget SSDs. To afford the kind of storage I need for CCTV on SSD, I'm opting for a Samsung QVO drive which uses cheaper QLC flash memory with a shorter lifespan (TBW).
00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Changing the Drive on CCTV Box
03:37 - Fitting the Orico SSD Enclosure
05:28 - Benefits of SSD in CCTV
08:53 - Downsides of SSD in CCTV
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[@tdcattech]

Samsung 870 QVO SSD Drive - geni.us/870qvo --- If you would like to support the channel and fancy one of these drives, you can find it on Amazon here. Thanks!

[@williem114]

Excelent video

[@elliswatkins8271]

I’m sticking with the hard drive I just bought a new one for my system. It is a Toshiba 6TB S300 Surveillance HDD - 3.5' SATA Internal Hard Drive Supports up to 64 HD cameras at a 180TB/Year workload and I have currently got 7 cameras up I can have up to 16 cameras on the house, which I have done, but the electric cost too much so now down to 7 All analog cameras by the way Just like to add, I got 2 One terabyte hard drive in my system at the minute, I can get roughly 4 months before it starts to go over the old footage and it’s on constant record, 24/7

[@JackDinn]

I've just put an 870 EVO into my DVR, I too am concerned about the rolling record and how the SSD will cope with being full continually. I didn't find an answer but brought one nonetheless. I shall find out soon enough I suppose.

[@tdcattech]

Mine has been rolling for a while now at max capacity and I haven’t noticed any problems whatsoever. 👍🏻 I’m still enjoying the improved response time and silent operation.

[@temptemp3403]

Thanks for the video.. I've been dreaming of putting an enterprise 2.5 ssd (Kingston DC600M) on my nvr as well, but the price is too steep, but it's nice to look at shiny expensive things even one cannot afford it. With regards to how long will a consumer ssd perform as a surveillance drive , I hope you can make a followup video, maybe checking SSD's health perhaps.. Enterprise SSDs, in theory will outlast the consumer grade one, or is it that of a big difference. I hope somebody out there slaps an enterprise grade ssd into there nvrs And make a video about it.. thanks for the video again mate .

[@shannonconley2730]

I use ssd for PlayStation 4pro, had it for a few year’s and only crashed once