10 eight-channel recorders in stock from $109.99. 2 state they ship diskless and 5 do not say. Eight cameras is eight simultaneous write streams into one disk, continuously - which is the whole reason surveillance-class drives have a published workload rating.
Prices updated · 10 recorders · 2 diskless, 3 with a drive, 5 not stated
10 in-stock listings · every specification here is the maker’s own claim, read from the listing · refreshed every few hours
| Recorder | Channels | Drive included | Network | Price | |
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Amcrest NV4108E-A2 Amcrest NV4108E-A2 4K 8CH POE NVR POE Network Video Recorder - Supports up t | 8 | 10TB included | PoE | $109.99 | Buy Now |
ANNKE ANNKE-8ch ANNKE 12MP 8 Channel NVR for Home Security Camera System, No HDD, Black | 8 | diskless - add your own | Ethernet | $129.99 | Buy Now |
Reolink RLN8-410 REOLINK RLN8-410 8CH Network Video Recorder for Home Security Camera System | 8 | not stated | Ethernet | $189.99 | Buy Now |
Amcrest NV2108E-HS Amcrest NV2108E-HS 8CH PoE NVR 4K/6MP/5MP/4MP/3MP/1080P Network Video Record | 8 | diskless - add your own | PoE | $195.99 | Buy Now |
Reolink RP-PN8 REOLINK RP-PN8 Professional 8CH PoE NVR Support Up to 16MP Camera | 8 | not stated | PoE | $249.99 | Buy Now |
Reolink RLN8-410 REOLINK RLN8-410 8-Channel NVR with 2TB HDD for PoE Security Camera Systems, | 8 | 2TB included | PoE | $310.23 | Buy Now |
Lorex Lorex-8ch Lorex Connect (New App) | V-Series | 4K 8-Channel 1TB Network Video Recorder | 8 | 1TB included | Ethernet | $319.99 | Buy Now |
Reolink RLN8-410 REOLINK RLN8-410 8CH NVR Network Video Recorder PoE Security Camera System | 8 | not stated | PoE | $349.99 | Buy Now |
Reolink RLN8-410- REOLINK RLN8-410-White 8CH NVR Network Video Recorder PoE Security System | 8 | not stated | PoE | $349.99 | Buy Now |
Lorex Lorex-8ch Lorex Connect (New App) | V-Series | 8Ch 4K NVR System | 3 Dome PoE Cameras | 8 | not stated | PoE | $569.99 | Buy Now |
Priced against a 6TB floor, which rises with channel count because more cameras means more simultaneous write streams at the same retention. That floor is our choice, not a calculation - a real retention figure needs your cameras’ actual bitrate, which your recorder reports per channel and we decline to guess at.
One drive. We hold no sourced bay count for these recorders, so the basket does not multiply by one. 2 items across 2 listings. In-stock listings only. Anything out of stock when this page loaded is named below rather than silently dropped.
| Item | Qty | Each | Line | |
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| RecorderANNKE ANNKE-8ch (8-channel) | x1 | $129.99 | $129.99 | Buy |
| Surveillance driveWD WD Purple 6TB WD60PURX (6TB) | x1 | $181.00 | $181.00 | Buy |
| Basket total | $310.99 | |||
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Eight channels covers a typical detached house comfortably: front and back doors, a driveway, a garden, a garage, and a couple left over for whatever turns out to matter after the first month. It is also the point where the built-in PoE switch on these recorders stops being a nice extra and becomes most of the reason to buy the appliance at all, because eight separate power adapters is a genuinely miserable installation.
It is the volume size in this market, which has a practical consequence worth knowing: eight-channel recorders are the most competitively priced and the most widely stocked, and the step up to sixteen costs considerably more than double the step from four to eight.
If you are unsure between eight and sixteen, the question worth asking is whether the extra channels would be used within a year. Adding a recorder later is expensive; adding cameras to a recorder that has spare channels and spare PoE ports is trivial.
This is the specific reason a storage site has anything to say about recorders. Eight cameras recording continuously is eight sequential write streams arriving at one drive simultaneously, forever. From the drive's point of view that is not eight sequential workloads - the head is moving between eight different write positions, which looks much more like random writing than the cameras' individual streams suggest.
A desktop drive is specified around an assumption of idleness and burst work, and this workload has neither. Surveillance-class drives are specified for it, with a published workload rating in terabytes written per year, and they constrain how long they will spend attempting to recover a bad sector - because on a recorder, a long recovery attempt means dropped frames from every camera at once.
The capacity floor we put against eight channels is a floor rather than a retention calculation. Retention depends on your cameras' actual bitrate, which varies enormously with resolution, codec and how much movement is in the frame, and your recorder reports that number live per channel. Measure it rather than trusting anybody's estimate, including one we might have been tempted to publish.
Most eight-channel recorders in this class have eight PoE ports on the back, and that is a larger part of the value than the recording function. Each camera needs power and network; with PoE it needs one cable, run to wherever the camera is, with no socket at the far end. Without it, every camera needs an outlet within reach of where you are mounting it, which for a soffit or a gable end is frequently the reason an installation does not happen.
The second thing the built-in switch does is isolate the cameras. On most of these recorders the PoE ports are a separate network segment that the cameras live on, reachable from the recorder but not from your main network. IP camera firmware is not an area of the industry with a strong security record, and keeping those devices off the network your other machines are on is a genuine benefit rather than a marketing one.
The limit worth checking is the total PoE power budget, which is a single figure for the whole recorder rather than a per-port guarantee. Eight ports does not mean eight cameras at maximum draw simultaneously, and cameras with heaters for outdoor use draw substantially more in winter than the specification sheet suggests in summer. That figure is in the recorder's own documentation and is not something we hold or publish.
Of these 10 listings, 2 say outright that they ship without a drive and 5 do not address it at all. That second number is the practical hazard: the box arrives, the cameras go up, and the recorder has nowhere to put anything.
The upside is that diskless is usually the better purchase anyway. Bundled drives in this class are frequently the cheapest thing the manufacturer could put in the box, and the drive is the component that decides whether the system is still recording in three years. Buying the recorder empty and choosing the drive yourself costs a little more and gets you a part with a published workload rating.
If a listing does include a drive, it is worth finding out which one before assuming it is a bonus. A surveillance-class drive included is genuine value; a desktop drive included is a component you will be replacing.
The NVR hub has the NVR-versus-NAS decision and the sizing arithmetic · 16-channel · SkyHawk drives · SATA drives by capacity · drive lifespan · add power protection.
This page exists because the catalogue holds at least 3 recorders at this channel count. Classes below that floor are not published rather than published thin.
It depends on the bitrate your cameras actually record at, which varies by more than an order of magnitude between similar-looking cameras. The arithmetic is total bitrate in Mb/s times your retention in seconds, divided by eight. Your recorder shows the live per-channel bitrate - use that number rather than an estimate. Motion-triggered recording cuts the requirement dramatically over continuous recording.
Eight covers a typical house and is the most competitively priced size in this market. The question worth asking is whether you would use the extra channels within a year - adding cameras to a recorder with spare channels and spare PoE ports is trivial, and replacing the recorder later is not.
Find out which drive it is before assuming so. A surveillance-class drive with a published workload rating is real value; a desktop drive in a box that writes eight streams continuously is a component you will be replacing. Buying the recorder diskless and choosing the drive yourself is usually the better purchase.