Lorex V-Series 4K NVR System Review

What ships in the box, and what does not

The system includes an 8 channel NVR, four 8MP bullet cameras, and a 1TB drive already installed, described by Lorex as expandable up to 10TB. That leaves four channels open on the recorder, which suits a four-sided house with room to add a driveway or garage camera later.

This specific listing does not state whether the recorder accepts third-party PoE cameras on those four spare channels. The safe assumption for filling them is genuine Lorex-compatible hardware rather than a mixed-brand camera, since the listing gives no indication either way.

The real storage math on the included 1TB drive

At the typical 6 Mbps H.265 convention for an 8MP stream, four cameras write about 4 times 2,700 MB per hour, times 24 hours, or 259,200 MB per day. Applying the standard 93 percent usable fraction, a 1TB drive holds about 930,000 MB of usable space, which divides out to about 3.6 days of continuous 24/7 recording across all four cameras.

Lorex own feature text states the drive is expandable up to 10TB. Running the same four-camera math against a 4TB drive instead of the included 1TB, a size increase Lorex explicitly supports, computes to about 14.4 days, which lands almost exactly on the 14-day minimum retention convention most insurers and buyers use as a starting target. Anyone planning to keep this system past a long weekend away should budget for that upgrade from day one.

What Lorex publishes about its own platform

Lorex feature text states that recording and access are local, with no monthly fees required for the included storage and Smart Search features that filter recordings by motion type and other attributes. It also states the recorder uses a fanless design with a heatsink for quiet, continuous operation, which matters for a box likely to sit in a living space rather than a closet.

The listing does not publish a focal length for the included cameras, so, as with the other bundled kits in this catalog, an exact DORI identify distance cannot be computed for this specific system.

Price per camera against an eight-camera kit

At $879.99 for four cameras, this kit works out to about $220 per camera, noticeably higher than the roughly $126 per camera the REOLINK RLK8-800B6 works out to at six cameras, or the roughly $157 per camera the RLK16-800B8 works out to at eight. Some of that gap is brand and platform, and some of it is simply that a four-camera kit spreads the fixed cost of the recorder and drive across fewer units than an eight-camera kit does.

That math favors this system for a buyer who specifically wants four cameras and the Lorex platform, and favors a REOLINK kit for a buyer chasing the lowest price per camera at a similar resolution. Neither is a wrong choice; they are simply optimizing for different things.

Is this a hands-on review

No. This is not a hands-on review. This system has not been installed or run by anyone on this team, and no claim above rests on a mounted unit. Every figure is either quoted from the Lorex listing or computed from it using the standard storage formula this site documents.

Who should not buy this

Anyone who needs all eight channels filled with cameras out of the box should look elsewhere, since only four cameras are included here and cross-brand compatibility for the remaining four channels is not stated.

Anyone planning to record continuously on all four cameras for more than a few days should budget immediately for a larger drive; the included 1TB is genuinely short at about 3.6 days.

Anyone who needs a stated lens focal length or DORI distance before buying will not find one published for this system.