Optimal SSD size

[jager122]

I plan to use a 500GB SDD to serve both music and storage for the sentry cam.

I would like to devote as much possible space to music, and on the basis the dashcam over writes it's self what would be a sensible minimum for the sentry cam?

I imagine it'll only be used to store the cached video and only ever used if I honk to save etc ,l.

Does anyone have any stats on just how much storage is permanently needed?

 

[Kevy Baby]

I plan to use a 500GB SDD to serve both music and storage for the sentry cam.

I would like to devote as much possible space to music, and on the basis the dashcam over writes it's self what would be a sensible minimum for the sentry cam?

I imagine it'll only be used to store the cached video and only ever used if I honk to save etc ,l.

Does anyone have any stats on just how much storage is permanently needed?

You will no hard data on this. Some people can live with a 32 GB drive for Dash Cam/Sentry (the car overwrites oldest footage when space runs out). I had a dedicated 256 thumb drive for 18 month and never had an issue. You will get a multitude of answers and all are right and all are wrong.

Do you change your music often or will you keep the same stuff? Come up with an estimate of how much space you will need for music and add 10-25% and set that with the balance to cam. I recently had to get more space for music (I've ben re-ripping a lot of tracks to FLAC and been on a bit of a buying spree lately) so I got a 1TB T5 and split it down the middle.

 

[jrweiss98020]

I agree. You can always copy sentry video to another computer/drive, but your increase in music requirements may never stop. I suspect 128 GB will be more than enough for the sentry, but that's up to you.

 

[Basteq]

May I use the included drive to sentry mode and separately 1TB SSD for music or will it be to much for the system? My new ford didn't want to accept pendrives over 32 GB

 

[Kevy Baby]

May I use the included drive to sentry mode and separately 1TB SSD for music?

Yes

 

[Frank99]

32gb is plenty for Sentry. You may need to pull the drive out after a few months to clean up old Sentry videos-the car doesn’t always do a good job of that.
An SSD is a good choice, because they’ll do “wear-leveling” which maximizes the lifetime of the drive in this kind of application. USB flash drives don’t often do this.

 

[sroy]

Currently my music library is 32g so I went 50-50 on a 500g drive. Assuming you backup your library on another computer, it’s ridiculously easy to wipe the disk and re partition if you go above 250g music library size.

 

[Kevy Baby]

Currently my music library is 32g so I went 50-50 on a 500g drive. Assuming you backup your library on another computer, it’s ridiculously easy to wipe the disk and re partition if you go above 250g music library size.

I had been using a separate 256GB flash drive for my music but recently outgrew it. So I invested in a 1 TB Samsung T5 and partitioned it to two roughly 500 GB volumes (the other is for TeslaCam). I should be set for a while.

 

[asian_xl]

I am using 256GB msata SSD with USB enclosure. 200GB for the cam and the rest for music. To be honest, I haven't download MP3 for a decade, spotify works perfectly and have everything I listen to.

 

[Kevy Baby]

...spotify works perfectly and have everything I listen to.

Except the only way to get high def files in your car is via USB.