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A Cozaint Assessment begins with your cameras, retention goals, storage mix, Video Management System and operating requirements — then turns them into a practical lifecycle conversation.
Video-retention capacity
Simple for visitors.
Detailed for system designers.
Enter your camera count, resolution, and retention target below. The calculator applies the same bitrate, motion-factor, and LTO capacity model Cozaint uses internally to size a system.
Your system at a glance
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Point at a bar for details. Every line of the math is in the cost breakdown under the calculator.
Optional: each camera's bit rate, if you know it. When filled in, it is used instead of the bit rate calculated from resolution, frames per second and motion. Leave it blank to use the calculated bit rate shown in grey.
How much of the picture is usually moving. Quiet areas (hallways, storerooms, nights): 10–25%. Typical offices and lobbies: 25–50%. Busy places (retail floors, stations, roads): 50% or more.
A takeaway handout with the customer name, these numbers, the savings and the full cost breakdown. It is created on this device; nothing is sent to Cozaint.
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Results
Cost comparison at today's prices
Costs are added up over this period. It is different from retention: retention is how long each day's video is kept; ownership is how long the system runs and keeps recording. It starts out matching your retention.
Hard drive assumptions
Drive used for the comparison: —. Change any value to see how it affects the costs.
MTBF starts at the industry average of the manufacturers' published ratings for 6 current enterprise and surveillance drive lines (all three hard drive makers), which means — of drives fail each year. System price per TB starts at the average of 5 verified current system providers. Details are in the notes below.
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Planning estimate only. Nothing entered here is transmitted to Cozaint®. Results require validation by a Cozaint specialist before use in a final system design.
Planning estimate
Results will require validation.
- This calculator identifies outputs as planning estimates — not guarantees or final system designs.
- No visitor information is transmitted by the calculator.
- No estimate or quote-reference PDF is generated automatically.
- A Cozaint specialist will review your numbers before any recommendation is finalized.
Next step
Send your numbers to a Cozaint specialist.
Share your environment and we'll respond with a tailored lifecycle conversation — no purchase commitment.
- 01Review your current environment
- 02Identify retention opportunities
- 03Plan a tailored demonstration