New Apple silicon Mac Mini server
Thinking of getting new Apple Silicon mini to replace my 2012 Mac Pro. It's giving problems. Apple only offers 8 or 16 gigs of RAM. Is that enough? I have 40 cameras in a school environment. I'll get the mini, and a thunderbolt 3 storage array. See any problems with that kind of setup? I can see myself going up to 50 cameras maybe at 10 FPS or less. Thanks.
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16 GB is modest, and may now be the limiting factor on the number of cameras that you can use on these machines (whereas with previous Intel machines, the limit is almost always CPU).
The main features in SecuritySpy that use significant RAM are as follows:
- Pre-capture
- Instant replay
- Video encoding (e.g. web server viewing).
As long as you're not making heavy use of the above features, then you may be just fine with 16 GB.
See my post here. The M1 us unbelievable!
https://www.bensoftware.com/forum/discussion/3384/mac-mini-m1#Item_21
Interesting development. On the latest version of SS released a few days ago, CPU on my M1 has gone up slightly, from avg of 10%, to around 14-15%. Still super low, but thought I’d mention this. No changes on my end.
And I even added another camera running at 4K. So 29 cameras at full res. and 10% CPU.
Unbelievable!
https://www.bensoftware.com/forum/discussion/3384/mac-mini-m1#Item_22
I now have 30 cameras on the new M1 (512 SSD / 16GB RAM) which replaced the 8GB RAM model I had before.
29 of those are Mobotix of various models. All are set at 10FPS, and on most of those the min. resolution is 1080P , and a few are @ 4K on the 6MP models.
Right now while idle since it’s after hours, it’s sitting at ~12-13% CPU. During business hours when a lot of motion detection is happening, it climbs to ~15% CPU & ~25% RAM.
I have the compression set at 70% for H264 recording, and on live viewing, half-frame is NOT checked.
Cheers,
Neurobit
Smooth Sailing.