The Milestone Husky M500A is building on the high performance exclusive hardware design of the Milestone Husky M50 chassis right in step with the previous Milestone Husky series. A key contribution to the NVR’s performance is the storage systems use of Western Digital Purple hard drives. These drives are specially designed for video surveillance and utilise write-optimised hard disk drive technology and frame loss protection.

When combined with a video recording optimised RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) Controller supporting either RAID 5 or RAID 10, one of the industry’s highest performance NVRs in its hardware class is achieved. The M500A NVR supports up to 48Tb of internal raw storage and has the ability to archive to network-attached storage appliances when additional storage is required.

Pre-installed with highly scalable Milestone Xprotect Expert video management software, the M500A NVR eliminates the guess work of sizing the recording hardware. This removes the common industry problem of over estimating and sizing IT server-based NVRs as well as saving time on systems design.

The Xprotect Expert VMS comes preloaded on the Husky M500A and enables a number of advantages for Milestone partners. These include already being trained and certified on the system software and being able to easily upgrade customers from previous Milestone Xprotect products like Xprotect Enterprise. Milestone Husky M500A will be sold in a base configuration only, so partners just add camera licenses as needed. Three years of Milestone Care Plus plan and hardware warranty are included in all units, enabling both free software upgrades, device license portability and software trade-in credit. This guarantees that customers get the industry’s lowest possible NVR total cost of ownership.

“The industry’s highest NVR performance is delivered by the most scalable and reliable VMS - all packed into our optimised NVR at the lowest cost per recorded device. It does not get better than this!” says Bjørn Skou Eilertsen, Vice President of Corporate Products Business Unit at Milestone Systems. “The Milestone Husky M500A is yet another proof-point of our commitment to delivering the most valuable solutions for our partners and customers.”

The Milestone Husky M500A proof-of-performance is being showcased at the ISC West International trade show in Las Vegas this week where visitors can see the live performance test of 512 HD cameras being recorded on the new Husky M500A Xprotect Expert NVR.