Patent ID: 8860820

Claim:
A video recording system for recording video data in a memory network including interfaces for connecting memory servers to storage volumes and for connecting writing clients, the video recording system comprising at least one writing client for furnishing the video data; an allocation device for the memory network, said allocation device configured for administering a storage volume of the memory servers, in that said allocation device, in an allocation stage, dynamically allocates statically divided memory blocks of physically different storage media of the storage volume to said at least one writing client and transfers address data of the allocated memory blocks to said at least one writing client; and at least one surveillance camera which is configured for generating the video data and is hard-wired to said at least one writing client, wherein after the allocation stage, said at least one writing client writes, on its own, using the address data previously transferred to write the video data directly to at least one of the allocated memory blocks of the storage volume without further interposition of the allocation device.