How Long Does Home Security Company Keep Footage?

When choosing a home security company for your house, one of the factors to consider is how long a home security camera can store footage.

This is, nevertheless, one of the things that are frequently disregarded.

The longer your security system can store film, the better—giving you peace of mind that you can always check old footage.

How Long Do the Different Home Security Companies Keep Footage?

ADT’s blue

Blue by ADT cameras can save and upload up to 24 hours of footage to their cloud server for free.

By purchasing a video storage plan, this term can be extended by up to 60 days.

SimpliSafe

For up to 10 cameras on their Interactive monitoring plan and up to 5 cameras on their Self-monitoring plan, SimpliSafe keeps video footage of all triggering events for 30 days.

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Vivint

Vivint cameras can keep video for up to 14 days on their own. However, the cameras can only record short video segments of 20 to 90 seconds.

With a 1 TB hard disk, Vivint’s smart drive DVR can capture and store 24/7 video footage locally for up to 30 days from up to four cameras, allowing you to keep the recordings for longer.

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Ring

When you subscribe to one of Ring’s subscription plans, you get between 30 and 60 days of footage storage, depending on where you live.

All video footage is saved in the cloud, but you can download and save it locally if you wish to preserve it for a longer time.

If you don’t have a subscription, you can only utilize the live view option, which means your cameras won’t save any footage.

What Happens to Old Footages?

When the storage unit runs out of space, the oldest video footage stored on hard drives and memory cards is normally removed automatically, and fresh video footage is captured in its place.

Old footage stored on cloud servers is normally erased after a set length of time, depending on the amount of storage space available.

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