Retention Planner

Part of a Design Flow

This tool continues the Video & Storage design flow

Use this step to turn the imported stream assumptions into a total retention requirement. This is where per-camera bitrate becomes a real storage target over the desired archive window.

It helps define the total storage burden that the next RAID step must actually carry once overhead and retention duration are applied.

Best for: estimating how much storage is required to hold the target retention window before overwrite.

Calculator

Camera Count

Average Bitrate per Camera (Mbps)

Hours per Day Recording

Desired Retention (days)

Storage Overhead (%)

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Results

Enter values and press Calculate.

Planning note: this is the required storage target before protection overhead from RAID. The next step checks how much of a real array remains usable once parity, mirroring, spares, and platform reserve are applied.

Documentation & Export

Export Report

Add optional project context and generate a clean documentation view that can be printed or saved as a PDF for client or internal use.

Report Title Project Name Client Name Prepared By Custom Notes