Built for your hardware.

Talik is highly optimized. Whether you are recycling a decade-old desktop for a small shop or spinning up a massive 64-channel perimeter on modern silicon, Talik scales with you.

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Operating System

Talik is currently deployed exclusively as a Docker container, maximizing efficiency and isolating dependencies. It requires a Linux host environment.

Recommended Distribution

For bare-metal deployments, we strongly recommend CachyOS. Its highly tuned kernel, BORE scheduler, and optimized packages provide measurable performance gains for continuous AI inference and video writing.

* Note: A native Windows deployment is actively in development and coming soon.

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Storage

NVR workloads are intensely write-heavy. Standard desktop hard drives will fail prematurely.

  • WD Purple or Seagate SkyHawk drives are highly recommended for bulk video storage.
  • • An NVMe or SATA SSD is recommended for the OS and the Talik SQLite database to ensure rapid Evidence Gallery searches.

Scaling Guidelines

1 - 4
Cameras

The Minimum Spec (Small Retail / Home)

Talik's containerized architecture allows it to run on hardware that other modern VMS platforms have abandoned. Perfect for small footprint deployments.

CPUIntel Xeon E3-1220L v2 (Dual Core)
RAM2 GB
5 - 16
Cameras

Advanced User (SMB / Power Homelab)

Scaling up the camera count requires slightly more memory for pre-roll buffering and a modern quad-core to comfortably handle concurrent WebRTC streams and AI tasks.

CPUIntel i5 (8th Gen+) / Ryzen 3
RAM8 GB
17 - 32
Cameras

Commercial Deployment

For medium-to-large facilities. An octa-core processor ensures that multiple users can view dynamic grids and scrub the timeline simultaneously without impacting the autonomous recording engine.

CPUIntel i7 / Ryzen 7
RAM16 GB
33 - 64+
Cameras

High-Density Enterprise

The ultimate deployment. Massive concurrent write I/O and intensive parallel AI inference. High-thread-count modern silicon is required to maintain real-time analysis across dozens of high-definition feeds.

CPUAMD Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM32 GB
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