I finally got my 3rd S01 and this one has been working great. I bought a Certified Refurb with an i3-10100, 8GB ram, & a 256 GB nvme drive for $365 ($339+tax). Looks brand new.
I swapped the 256GB drive with an Intel 2TB P4500 and bumped the memory to 16GB total (2x 8GB). Did a clean install of Win 10. Updated the drivers and then debloated Win10 with this tool from Chris Titus Tech. I ran the Intel Burn Test v2.54 by AgentGOD a few rounds at Standard & High and it passed without any issues. The 1st S01 I purchased would BSOD when running it at just Standard.
Here are CDM benchmarks of the Intel drive in this computer.
Exported the Blue Iris (BI) settings and data base files from the Win10 VM on the unRaid box and got them moved over to this new bare metal install. Copied over the DeepStack AI Tools also. BI has been running for a few days now and its a night and day difference in how well it works, which should be expected with the better CPU, memory and utilizing Quick Sync that is not present on the Win10 VM. The UI3 web interface for BI is snappy and everything loads instantaneous when reviewing footage over wifi on my laptop. I’ll be adding a few more 4k cameras here soon. With all the tweaks and optimizations I am seeing ~6-8% CPU & ~3% GPU load when it’s just sitting there running doing it’s BI thing.
It jumps up to about 10% when scrubbing through video footage. Super happy how well this runs BI.