Synology Surveillance Station on DS416

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I’m setting up Synology Surveillance station and will be using 8-10, 8MP/4K cameras. I was thinking of using it on a spare DS416 that I don’t really need. The reason being, the DS416 doesn’t support BTRFS, so I don’t really store anything important on it.

However, it is older and only has 1GB RAM. I’m just afraid it won’t have the horsepower to do the task - both in live streaming, as well as play-back of recorded streams. I just wouldn’t think it could handle the task. Synology says it will support up to 25 cameras, but I don’t believe that.

I would be recording at 15-24 FPS, depending on the camera. Recording would be in 4K, live view would be lower.

I could also put it on a DS916+, DS920+, DS216+II or DS1821+, but I would rather not commit those to this if I don’t have to. On the DS216+II, I have a second NIC, via a USB Ethernet adapter.

Any experience from someone on this setup?

Thanks!

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I am running the dedicated discontinued Synology NVR-1218 with the OEM 1GB DDR3 memory with eight cameras and see nothing wrong with the speed and performance. Maybe compare specs 1218 >> 416 but you would be surprised how well this machine handles SS

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Thanks for the info. I looked up the NVR1218, but could only find that it has a “Dual Core 1.0 Ghz CPU”. They don’t publish what that CPU actually is. Does your DSM for that NVR show the CPU model?

I’m assuming it’s a stronger CPU, since it’s a newer model than the 416, but am just guessing. The 416 has an Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-212 CPU. Don’t know what class that falls into, though.

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I am thinking weaker
Mind you, this is a dedicated NVR and not running traditional NAS tasks

pcwolf@NVR1218:/$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 1987.37

processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 1993.93

Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x4
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 1

Hardware : hi3535
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000

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Thanks for the info, pcwolf.

I think I’ve decided to use an old DS216+II, instead of the DS416. The DS416, with only two test cameras, is using 40% of it’s 1GB of RAM.

The DS216+II currently has 8GB of RAM and is about to have 16GB of RAM, tomorrow, if the upgrade works.

I have newer & faster DS NAS’s, but am trying to start at the bottom until I hit the model that works very well, but is not overkill.

Thanks again!

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You are welcome, of course. My system with five steady stream 4k cams and one month retention to twin 6GB hard drives pegs the 1GB system RAM at 31% which doesn’t seem to surge with use.

If you think about it, modern cams do a great deal of processing (like facial/pet recognition, tracking, focus, etc.) remote and internal, so the NAS really is just directing a video stream to disk without a great deal of processing.

I predict you will be pleasantly surprised at the capability Synology delivers. I switched from a Russian software product FelenaSoft Xeoma due to much better ease of use and manner of accessing the recordings to retrieve events. The Synology one time per-camera license fee is also actually more economical than annual renewal of other NVR software licenses.

Synology no longer updates the NVR-1218 version of DSM but does continue to deliver updates to SS six years later.

Good luck