Video recording storage consumption

General guidance on how to calculate the amount of storage space required for recordings of video sources, such as IP cameras.

The maximum amount of available recording time is dependent upon several factors, including the ambient lighting conditions, and the camera’s resolution and settings.

The available recording time is also dependent on the amount of storage space available for your connected device.

As a general and approximate guideline, when set to factory default settings, an IP camera video stream at 1080p resolution requires approximately 7.1 MByte of storage per minute of video footage (this equates to approximately 140 minutes of recording time, per 1 GByte of storage space).