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Hello,

Im looking for a good and cheap option to run zoneminder smootly with 4 - 8 cameras.

Can i use a raspberry pi 4 or banana pi for this? or maybe older models? Or other hardware is better?

I want to order 5mp cameras for a good resolution and record quality.
peaples already recording 4k quality?

Thanks

Going to depend upon FPS, Resolution, etc... Generally you want x86-64 for high CPU processing. ARM is limited in that respect.

For 4 - 8 5 MP cameras you will need multiple Raspberry Pi 4 8 GB models, likely 3 - 4 cameras per Pi, depending on frame and bit rates.

My original setup is here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29853

However, the SD Card was a bottleneck, so I updated the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware and set it to boot from USB with Ubuntu 20.04 installed to a USB 3.0 thumb drive and recording to a USB 3.0 hard disk. Your will need a multiserver Zoneminder setup, which is not hard to do.