Re: Security DVR Advice Needed

["Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"pcbutts1" <pcbutts1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I agree with everything you say but just add a few things about PC based
>dvr's. We started out selling only PC based dvr's. We went thru a lot of
>them. A lot of crashes, we had one catch fire at the customers site. We
>have tested so many for so many years I can tell a good one by just looking
>at the picture quality. Stay away from Maxtor HD's AMD cpu's cheap
>motherboards, and cheap video cards. In my opinion P4's are the best along
>with western digital HD's. We used AMD's for a while but no matter how many
>software changes and upgrades we could not get past that persistent picture
>flickering that was caused by the AMD cpu. Maxtor HD's lasted about a year
>before they went bad. This costs us money to replace because of labor.
>Since we have been using Western Digital's not one has been returned. The
>good thing about PC based I that you can upgrade them and at the rate
>things are changing the way to go is PC based. We just started selling
>Embedded a few months ago and it's going pretty good, it's Linux based. And
>the one who are buying them is like you said, people who are not pc
>literate. We don't use Geovision but in all my years of doing this I have
>to say that I have nothing bad to say about Geovision systems. We use our
>own system Korean based hardware. I get about 5 emails a day from upstart
>companies wanting me to sell there product, most are crap.


Western Digital HD's, Intel "Seattle" MB's, Dual Xeon Chipset, Linux OS, ATI
Video Cards...  Rock solid systems.

As for "Maxtor".  I've noticed their quality has actually improved since
they acquired Quantum but I still lean towards WD...