SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:37

They just had a monitor outside the door with the feed on it

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:37

These were domes. They used them a lot in the factory floor and labs for sensitive safety areas

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:29

Microphones too. You could put a speaker onto them , it had the terminal strip for that and door strike

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:21

they used arecont cams

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:16

fun fact, there's over 120 cameras in their parking garages alone

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:15

the purple / red drives :D

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:13

Ya they come in weird speeds

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:13

Designed for as low of power / heat as possible

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:13

The server ones ya. The laptop can be 4200 or 4800

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:10

if they're magnetic — they still have 7500RPM 2.5 drives

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

I.... actually have 3 in my trunk of my car right now 😆

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

Ya there are some brackets for that

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:43

I think there are laptop drive to standard case adapters?

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:38

I’m wondering if there's a way to salvage the HDD off of my old laptop and repurpose it for my desktop.

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:18

my old manager decided to change two drives during a RAID rebuild once

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:37

Like laser containment areas. So you could see who was inside there without needing to find goggles

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:30

they used a lot of dome cams; some had heaters inside for condensation from snow; not really needed in Oakland :P

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:28

Ya theirs were $ too. Nice though. 4k and full PTZ

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:20

My last place we used all poe ones. They had Bluetooth and you could pair to things like Bluetooth thermometers or whatever and log it

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:15

I built a few of those for the Port of Oakland when I did the CCTV upgrade

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:14

I think the "surveillance " hdd are 4800. The 3.5" ones. Designed to be quieter and cooler and have longer life

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:13

5200 was the other I know of

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:13

I've never seen those speeds for SATA drives 🤔

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:11

It’s be more for media storage. Essentially a scrub drive for my proxy media files when I video edit.

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:10

Keep in mind laptop HDD are quite slow

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

just as 2.5" instead of 3.5"

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 20:09

most laptop drives are still SATA

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:40

i think there is, its just hard to mount it to the case right?

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:19

and that's how we lost the array 🎉

SF Bay Furs

22 February 2026 19:17

If one fails I'll just replace and let the raid rebuild and oh no it's slow for a while