With the Portable SSD T3, Samsung has gone ahead and stuffed its TLC V-NAND into a tiny, pocketable chassis. Samsung’s 850 EVO SSD has enjoyed widespread success since its introduction a while back, but the company isn’t resting on its laurels. You can have every member of your household set up on it too, so it doesn't arm unless everyone has left.Our SSD coverage is typically geared towards drives for the system builder, but today we’ve got a welcome break from tearing down another 2.5″ SATA drive. When you leave the set radius, the system will arm itself. It's simply a case of setting the radius, enabling the location permissions on your smartphone and going out. It uses geofencing so you don't need to manually switch it on. If the cameras detect movement, not only will they record video but will sound the alarm as well. Alarm sirens are built into the cameras and the HomeBase as well.Ī useful, customisable Away mode arms the system when you go out.
Not only do these cameras visually monitor your property, the two-way audio and the built-in microphones mean you can record sound, tell someone to move along or use it to speak to delivery drivers outside. The IR night vision films in black and white, so you do lose out on some of the definition in faces but it does a good job other than that. One minor criticism was that after turning it off, activating the live stream sometimes switched it back on again, not ideal if you are trying to be discreet. It was very bright though, so if you are trying to keep your camera a secret you definitely won’t want it switched on. Illuminating the area well, the spotlight gives you decent coloured video.
In all honesty, the average person probably won’t need more than 1080p.Īt night, it was great to have the choice between reliable IR night vision and a bright spotlight. It lacked the sharpness you get from a slightly higher resolution camera, yet it's only really noticeable when you zoom into the footage. If they were close enough, you could easily make out people’s faces and from further away you could still pick up enough defining detail.
Overall the 1080p resolution made for good quality footage in the day and at night. Granted it didn't always find them, and the shots are grainy but it will save you a lot of time if you need to capture that information. When they do find a face, the camera takes a snapshot. And sometimes it completely missed the action entirely. Occasionally, I did find that it starting recording the footage a little late, missing the person it had detected. With Human Only detection switched on, the cameras didn’t pick up any false positives like animals. If there are any areas with recurring human movement, you can easily block it out with customisable Smart Detection Zones in the app as well. You can adjust how sensitive the detection is, so if you live on a busy road with lots of people passing by, you can make sure you’re not being hounded with notifications. Intelligently detecting human body shape and faces stops the cameras from activating without good reason. With a 135-degree field of view, it's not the widest you can get but I found it got everything in that I needed it to. The first thing to note was how stable the connection was between the cameras and the HomeBase, it didn’t drop at all.įitting everything into the frame is an important aspect to consider for a security camera because you don't want any blind spots that could miss something. To test out the performance and features, I had the Euf圜am 2C system set up over a number of weeks at the front of the house and in the garden. So actually, not having those extra costs is a convincing benefit of investing in the Euf圜am 2C, and does help to justify its more premium price point too.įor this Euf圜am 2C review, I had the security cameras installed over a number of weeks both at the front and back of the house.
Ring’s most basic plan will set you back $3 / £2.50 / AU$4 per month, while Arlo’s storage plan costs $2.99 / £2.49 / AU$4.49 a month for a single camera. One of the biggest selling points Eufy has is that unlike many of its competitors, there’s no subscription fee to save the footage.