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I stream Splatoon 3 for 2 hours every day and I record higher quality VODs alongside. I keep a lot of the VODs in my storage.
I record at 1080p 60fps 9000kbps with H265. 2 hours of that takes up 8.8GB, for simplicity we will say it's 9GB.
The 9000kbps is enough for a bitrate-heavy game like Splatoon 3, so I'd say 12000kbps is enough for you.
We can scale it up to your settings by (1440/1080)^2 * (165/60) * (12000/9000) = 6.52 (worst case, but H265 should reduce that a little bit). The scale factor mainly comes from the increased FPS and bitrate.
I'm currently looking at storing a year of footage in a 4TB HDD (9GB*365=3.3TB), so as an estimation, you need 7 of those.
There are better codecs though, such as AV1, but my GPU doesn't support AV1 hardware encoding and software encoding would cause too much lag, so I didn't use it.
Thanks for the numbers, I'll try some test clips to see what bitrate is good for me. And I'll use your formula for estimates :)
I did a test recording of 2 minutes (1440p 60fps 15000kbps) it's 320MBs, encoded it with AV1 and the file became 392MBs, it also lost all but the first audio track.
Anyways, I estimate a 6.8TB for 1k hours. Seems doable.