{"id":7173,"date":"2017-08-25T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T06:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2017-08-25T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T06:25:02","slug":"new-zoneminder-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=7173","title":{"rendered":"New Zoneminder Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never did a proper review of my new Zoneminder Rig which is based on an older Dual Socket Xeon Proc with 4 cores each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7174\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-rig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-rig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-rig-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-rig-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently this box has Dual Xeon Quad Core\u00a0E5606 CPUs and 12GB of Registered DDR3 RAM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7175\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-DualSocket12Gb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-DualSocket12Gb.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-DualSocket12Gb-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-DualSocket12Gb-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to tell in this picture below, but it has 4 Hard disks and a DVD drive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 4TB WD Purple (DVR HD) drive<\/li>\n<li>1 3TB WD Green Drive<\/li>\n<li>1 1TB Toshiba 2.5&#8243; drive<\/li>\n<li>1 256GB Samsung SSD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7176\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-HDisks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-HDisks.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-HDisks-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-HDisks-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It runs pretty quite despite having 6 fans to cool it down (not including any in the power supply) \u00a0Even the RAM has a custom baffling and fan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7177\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-RAMFan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-RAMFan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-RAMFan-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-RAMFan-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the power supply, it is in a neat easily replaceable module, but makes me wonder if these things fail enough they have to make them easily replaceable. \u00a0 I should get a spare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-650WPS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-650WPS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-650WPS-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-650WPS-768x330.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The connectors were two older PS2 style keyboard and mouse which totally works with my KVM. \u00a0There were an ample amount of USB2 connectors, no USB3 connectors, I added a dual PCI-E Gig Ethernet card as well. \u00a0Finally today I added the BNC video adapters and can serve a total of 8 BNC cameras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Backpanel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Backpanel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Backpanel-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Backpanel-768x277.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One cool surprise was the NVidia Video card which can do hardware H.264 decoding which can improve ffmpeg performance which Zoneminder uses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-VideoCard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-VideoCard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-VideoCard-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-VideoCard-768x363.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately one of the RAM chips I have is bad, I am on the hunt to replace it. \u00a0Keeps rebooting my PC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7181\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-badRAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-badRAM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-badRAM-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-badRAM-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than the bad RAM, it is handling the Zoneminder load allright<\/p>\n<p>I have more than 20 cameras, 5 of them 1080P cameras with motion detection turned on. \u00a0Note the load is 4.94, I have 8 CPUs so I have room to spare. \u00a0Also the RAM is only using 53% without any tweaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7182\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Zoneminder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Zoneminder.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Z600-Zoneminder-300x46.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am happy with this rig, I think I sunk $500 in to it. \u00a0 There is room to expand, I can go to 24GB of registered RAM or 48GB unbufferred, \u00a0I can go to 3GHz 6 core if CPU became an issue.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to note is this thing is HEAVY, and where it sits, it will be difficult to steal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never did a proper review of my new Zoneminder Rig which is based on an older Dual Socket Xeon Proc with 4 cores each. 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