Hi, Shawn, Shawn Stephens wrote: > I use an appliance from Smartvue - the Smartvue S9. They have a very > small version - the S9i - now that has 128GB of SSD for ~$700 that will > handle 10 cameras. > > http://smartvue.com/products/index.html > > I have been running the S9 version for a little over a year with only a > few issues. It's been very reliable and easy to use. It actually runs > Fedora under the hood! > Interesting - MSRP, $300, but that does not appear to include any cameras, and if it only takes IP cameras, that's another $100 a pop, each.... Right on the edge of the budget. So, can you ssh into it, or rsync files, or even wget the files down for long-term storage? Does it require IE to control? mark