Season’s Greetings TC-LUG’ers, I run a DIY network of security cameras that work in two parts. FTP (or server pull) A number of cameras send jpeg images to server several times a minute. FFMPEG Once a day, read last 24hrs of jpegs and write out the mp4 video. Calculating the mp4 files takes most of the time, preventing higher frames-rates, increasing sever load (impacting other uses) and delaying availability of the final video. QUESTION Since this is disk-intensive, I trust performance would improve if Jpegs were written-to and read-from solid-state drive (SSD) as opposed to traditional spinning mechanical-platter hard disk (HD). I plan to continue writing the final MP4 to HD. Looking at RAID for faster reads serving the final product. I understand SSD are faster, quieter, more reliable, and uses less power than HD (compelling arguments) but have a limited number of read-write cycles before failure and are prone to fail on power outages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Comparison_with_other_technologies If I run 5GB per day through a 120GB SSD what’s the expected MTBF? Otherwise, more ram and a faster cpu should help. Any system design, hardware, or architecture tips? -- Craig A. Smith mailto:craigallynsmith at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141225/76e12d5b/attachment.html>