The Californer - eRacks Launches Video NAS Configurations - Surveillance-Certified Storage for VMS, PACS, and 24x7

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WD Purple Pro and Seagate SkyHawk AI drives, 25/100GbE networking, and ZFS sequential-write tuning - on-premise storage built for IP camera systems and healthcare archives. From $4,995.

FREMONT, Calif. - Californer -- eRacks Systems today launched dedicated Video NAS (VNAS) configurations for IP camera systems, video management software (VMS), and other 24x7 sequential-write workloads. The new VNAS line targets surveillance, broadcast, post-production, and healthcare PACS deployments - workloads where consumer-grade NAS drives fail prematurely under continuous write pressure.

VNAS configurations ship with surveillance-certified drives: WD Purple Pro for general VMS workloads, or Seagate SkyHawk AI for camera-side analytics. Both are CMR (not SMR) drives, rated for 24x7 sequential writes and the workload pattern that multi-camera 4K H.265 streams produce. Standard desktop drives and read-tuned NAS drives wear out quickly in surveillance use; surveillance-certified drives are engineered for it.

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eRacks VNAS systems pair these drives with 25 or 100 gigabit Ethernet networking, ZFS RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 with sequential-write tuning, and a choice of TrueNAS Scale, Proxmox, or Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The systems work with any VMS - Milestone, Genetec, Frigate, ZoneMinder, BluVMS - rather than locking customers into bundled NVR software.

Typical scale: an eRacks/NAS24 (24 bays, ~480TB raw) handles 50 to 100 4K cameras with multi-week retention. The 50-bay eRacks/NAS50 covers 200+ cameras or broadcast archive workloads. The 72-bay eRacks/NAS72 scales to petabyte-class surveillance backends. Pricing starts at $4,995 for the 8-bay NAS8 and reaches $24,995 for the petabyte NAS72.

The same architecture supports healthcare PACS imaging, clinical research datasets, and HIPAA-aligned electronic medical record (EMR) backends. eRacks Healthcare NAS configurations ship with full audit logging, ZFS native encryption, and no telemetry, keeping protected health information inside the customer firewall.

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eRacks has built custom open-source servers since 1999. Configure a Video NAS or Healthcare NAS at https://eracks.com/products/rackmount-nas-servers/ or visit the company at https://eracks.com

About eRacks Open Source Systems

eRacks Open Source Systems is an open-source server and storage specialist founded in 1999 and headquartered in Fremont, CA. The company builds rackmount servers, NAS, HPC clusters, and AI inference servers configured to customer requirements, running Linux and open-source software. eRacks serves businesses, research institutions, healthcare providers, and government agencies worldwide.

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