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I have a custom made system. I use POE Trendnet cameras on a DVR w/o internet access (I don't trust the "cloud"). I like the Trendnets because they have the best picture quality for the price. The DVR is a regular ol' desktop computer with a 2TB drive running a program called Blue Iris. Everything is on backup power too just in case. The DVR computer is not easy to get to. I just rely on the fact that it'll take the baddies over 8 minutes to find it and disable it. By then, the local LEOs would have shown up from the tripped alarm.

Here's how I see it. No matter how much you invest into home security, like cameras, high security locks, security film on windows, etc, nothing beats a monitored alarm system, especially if you live in a town where the local LEOs are bored out of their skulls.