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When planning or scaling a video surveillance solution, guessing your storage needs can lead to costly overprovisioning — or worse, critical data loss. Our CCTV storage calculator takes the guesswork out of planning.
Whether you're deploying a few 1080p cameras or dozens of 4K and AI-enabled devices, this tool helps you determine exactly how much storage you’ll need based on:
Video format
Video quality
Scene activity
* This Surveillance Storage Capacity Estimator tool is provided for illustrative purposes only. Total Storage Capacity is calculated based on parameters selected in the tool, typical compression ratios determined solely by Western Digital for MJPEG, H.264, H.265, and H.265+ video formats in conjunction with video quality and scene activity, and color depth based on 30 bits for 4K resolution and higher and 16 bits for all other resolutions. Storage capacity needs may vary depending on actual number of cameras connected, days of storage required, video format, compression ratio, camera resolution, frames per second, color depth, system capabilities, components, hardware, configurations, settings, and software, and other factors. Any reliance on this tool and its output is at the third party's own risk. As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity on storage devices may vary depending on operating environment.