I'd like to get more footage history on my NVR drives & wondering if others can share best practices??

Current setup = I currently have qty-22 cameras hanging off an RLN-NVR36. Cameras are primarily FE-P 180 cams, a few Duo-2s & two doorbells. I have max'd the NVR out (inline with OEM specs) with three CCTV specific 16GB HDDs & I am getting almost two months of footage on the drives. I'd like to get more footage history on my drives & soliciting your ideas (or just tell me I am already getting what I can get...)

• anyone know the storage per-day consumed by recorded audio on the FE-Ps, Doorbell Cams, Duo2s & Duo3s, just sut audio off on a few cams, hard to tell what I'm saving....
• Has any business user installed larger HDDs than the current spec, run them for a few months & can confidently confirm larger drives "won't/don't miss" a beat on storage??
• Reolink Camera use experiences with other 3P.NVRs for business use cases?
• Open-Ideas = Any other ides for storage maximization???

Thx

I'd like to get more footage history on my NVR drives & wondering if others can share best practices??

Current setup = I currently have qty-22 cameras hanging off an RLN-NVR36. Cameras are primarily FE-P 180 cams, a few Duo-2s & two doorbells. I have max'd the NVR out (inline with OEM specs) with three CCTV specific 16GB HDDs & I am getting almost two months of footage on the drives. I'd like to get more footage history on my drives & soliciting your ideas (or just tell me I am already getting what I can get...)

• anyone know the storage per-day consumed by recorded audio on the FE-Ps, Doorbell Cams, Duo2s & Duo3s, just sut audio off on a few cams, hard to tell what I'm saving....
• Has any business user installed larger HDDs than the current spec, run them for a few months & can confidently confirm larger drives "won't/don't miss" a beat on storage??
• Reolink Camera use experiences with other 3P.NVRs for business use cases?
• Open-Ideas = Any other ides for storage maximization???

Thx

@joseph_1979 too much for me to pite off for there...I'll install the strobe & call it a day. thanks for your help!!!

@joseph_1979 This is so helpful! thank you! seems like a very easy setup & thanks for the link on the other thread!!! I have the items on order...!

Now.....allow me to get "greedy & add another wish list item....." In addition to wiring up the strobe, I'd like to also run a doorbell chime wire all the way back to the warehouse office. Do you think that a 24VDC transformer will be enough to run the relay, strobe & a wired analog chime 200 feet away. I can barely spell electricity BTW....

Can you leverage both the POE ports and 24VDC contacts on the back of the reolink doorbell at the same time?


why am I asking?? :
I have installed two reolink POE doorbells in one of our warehouse offices & they work great! However, One of the Doorbells is installed in a loud & long warehouse. the Door is 171 feet away from the office so the Bluetooth chime is only partially helpful for our use case.

Wondering if anyone has tried or has input on two topics. Doorbells are currently the POE doorbells but I see they have the screws for standard 24V DC....Can I leverage both capabilities at the same time POE & the standard power contacts? so I can rig up a few non standard configs to aid in our use case...

1. I'd like to rig up a doorbell strobe signaller ( commonly used for folks with hearing impairments) so our guys working in the warehouse can visually see a doorbell ring if they r running forklifts/equipment/tractors...).
2. If Possible to leverage both the POE &24V DC contacts, wondering if I can wire up a 24V dorrbell transformer & run 200ish feed of wire all the way back to the office for a standard analog chime (from the local home depot...). to be clear, leave the POE connected for high quality footage connectivity to the DVR (and) analog contacts to extend a hard wired chime 200 feet away from warehouse rear door into office....

Warm regards on any thoughts or feedback on what I'm trying to do....