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CaptureGem Storage Predictor v5 (ZFS/RAID)


Building a high-density recording server? Use this advanced predictor to account for ZFS and RAID overhead, compression ratios, and ZFS recordsize metadata. Plan your drive purchases with precision.

1. Hardware & Arrays

2. Recording Load

Usable Capacity0.0 TBRaw: 0 TB
Est. Retention0 Days0.0 GB/Hr

About ZFS Recordsize

For video recording (large sequential writes), a larger recordsize (e.g., 1MB) is usually recommended to reduce metadata overhead and improve throughput. Smaller recordsizes (128K) can lead to fragmentation and significantly higher CPU usage during multi-stream recording.

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