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Video & Storage

Plan retention, storage sizing, RAID impact, and export reality — before the install.

Storage problems rarely show up during quoting. They show up later as “retention is short,” “exports don’t fit,” and “we need more drives.” These tools help you size storage from real inputs and understand what RAID does to usable capacity and survivability before the install gets locked into assumptions that are hard to unwind later.

Planning Guide

Video & Storage Planning Guide

Walk through the Video & Storage design process before opening individual tools. The guide explains the linear planning flow, supporting checks, and the assumptions worth documenting before storage and retention targets are treated as complete.

Guided Design Flow

Start with the first step. Build toward the full design.

Some ScopedLabs tools work as a connected workflow. In Video & Storage, the Design Flow starts with bitrate, rolls into storage sizing, turns that into retention, then finishes by testing RAID behavior and retention survivability under degraded conditions so the design is evaluated as a system instead of as isolated calculator outputs.

GUIDED DESIGN FLOW
Bitrate Storage Retention RAID Impact Retention Survivability

The flow includes both Free and Pro tools. Pro access unlocks the full sequence for deeper planning, exportable reports, and saved design snapshots.

Free Tier

Bitrate Estimator
Estimate per-camera and total bitrate by resolution, codec, frame rate, and stream assumptions.
Free Tier
Camera Storage Calculator
Estimate total storage required by camera count, bitrate, recording mode, and retention days.
Free Tier
Retention Planner
Convert available storage capacity into expected retention days and planning headroom.
Free Tier

Pro Tier

Advanced Storage Planner
Model dense systems, exports, peak bitrate spikes, and retention risk with more detailed planning inputs.
Pro Tier
Archive Cost
Estimate long-term archive storage cost by retention depth, data volume, and duration.
Pro Tier
Codec Efficiency
Compare codec efficiency and expected bitrate reduction ranges across storage strategies.
Pro Tier
Compression Impact
Estimate storage savings versus image-quality risk from more aggressive compression choices.
Pro Tier
Failure Days Lost
Estimate how many retention days are lost during storage failures and recovery events.
Pro Tier
RAID Impact
Calculate usable capacity, rebuild tradeoffs, and fault-tolerance impact across array choices.
Pro Tier
Retention Survivability
Model survivability and retention reduction under degraded arrays, failures, and storage pressure.
Pro Tier
Pro access

Advanced planning tools

ScopedLabs Pro unlocks deeper storage and survivability modeling for high-density systems, long retention requirements, archive planning, and degraded-failure scenarios where design margin really matters.