CCTV Storage Calculator
Estimate HDD storage from camera count, bitrate, recording hours, days, and overhead.
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15 CCTV & Network Tools
Calculate CCTV storage, recording time, bandwidth, PoE requirements, lens coverage, and installation needs.
Tools are grouped by common CCTV and network installation planning tasks.
15 available calculators
Estimate HDD storage from camera count, bitrate, recording hours, days, and overhead.
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Estimate how long a known amount of storage can retain footage.
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Find a practical NVR HDD configuration from storage need, bays, and drive sizes.
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Estimate a practical bitrate range from camera settings.
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Estimate IP camera network traffic from camera count, bitrate, and overhead.
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Estimate throughput for common security and networking workloads.
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Check PoE device load, headroom, switch budget, and per-port power needs.
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Plan PoE port count, power budget, and uplink requirements.
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Estimate backup runtime for cameras, switches, NVRs, and routers.
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Estimate scene width and height from lens, sensor, and distance.
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Estimate lens needs for a target scene width or viewing distance.
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Plan detect, observe, recognize, and identify distances.
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Estimate pixel density for surveillance coverage planning.
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Supporting references for CCTV bandwidth, network capacity, lens coverage, and camera planning.
Understand how camera bitrate and simultaneous streams become CCTV network traffic.
Read guide →Plan camera counts, overhead, uplinks, recorder location, and available network capacity.
Read guide →Connect focal length, sensor size, distance, scene width, pixel density, and DORI.
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