Milestone XProtect VMS. Deployment Guide Best Practice 2020 R1 4. Configure storage 4A Prepare storage system tf you willbe using RAID on your storage system, make sure its Set to a RAID stripe of 51 kB or larger. Using a smaller block size may resuk in not getting the optimal performance out of the RAID system, By default, Windows formats an NTFS disk with a 4 KB blocksize. For best performance, make sure your storage is formatted with NTFS 64 kB block size, regardless of the use of RAID and JB0D. IF you willbe recording to a storage system running RAID 5 or RAID 6, you should take particular care to ensure the storage system has sufficient performance to meet the worst-case scenario of recording and playoackwhile the RAID is recovering from a disk failure (rebuilding the RAID). Ifthe storage is intended for archiving only, it must have sufficient performance so that the recordings can be still transferred while the RAID is recovering from a disk failure. Milestone generally recommends you use archiving only if you will be storing the long-term storage on a physically different storage system than the recording database (for example, on a NAS system) Note: For performance and disk wear reasons, Milestone recommends you do not record or archive to the same physical disk that is used for the operating system (Windows), with the exception of high-performance, multi-disk RAID 10 systems. Note: For optimal performance, Milestone recornmends you disable Windows indexing and disk compression on all ideo storage drives, as well as the drive containing the SQL database. Note: Milestone does not recommend using fil systems other than NTFS, and explicitly does nat recommend using Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS) for the storage system at this time as it may resuk in degraded recording and playback performance over time, Additional resources = XProtect VMS Administrator manual Site Navigation: Servers and hardware: Recordin, Servers > Storage and archiving (explained) = Knowledge base article 000001845. Media overflow/ error messages in XProtect Corporate System Log = XProtect VMS Administrator manual> Navigating the Management Client 4B. Verify access to remote storage IF you will be archiving to a NAS storage or recording or archiving to a SAN, you must make sure the ser running the Recording Server service has full le access permissions on the storage resource, 34.