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Onboard Storage Overview
The amount of footage stored onboard a camera depends on several factors. Generally speaking, storage capacity, bitrate, resolution, and motion within the field of view play critical roles in determining the amount of saved footage.
To find the information presented in this article, navigate to a camera through the "Devices" page.
Storage Capacity
Rhombus cameras have several onboard storage capacities listed on our camera specs page. Specific device storage capacity is listed in the "More Details" box below the player feed.
Max Bitrate
This setting limits the total amount of data that can be stored and uploaded per second from the camera. To meet this setting requirement, image quality is degraded to reduce the size of the footage. For more information, see camera settings.
Resolution
This refers to the total number of pixels in the footage. Higher resolutions have more pixels and require more storage space.
Motion
To access motion statistics, right-click anywhere on the camera feed and select "Stats for Nerds." Camera footage is recorded and then encoded using H264, which compresses the footage based on the amount of motion from frame to frame. Thus, footage with greater amounts of motion will be larger after the compression has been applied.
It can be challenging to estimate how many days of footage can be stored on a given camera without knowing the applied settings and what the camera is looking at. If a camera is processing progressive movement (human, vehicle, etc.), it will consume more space than a device not storing movement, thus reducing the number of days that can be stored within the device.
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