@Boldline I have 5 drives installed and most are "fat drives" so a good storage solution for general media storage and backups. An external would be fine also. I record to one of the drives as I work to a folder set for OBS recordings and I delete older recordings overtime just for clean up.
I'm recording 1080p/4K at 60fps depending on the situation in OBS and then I run something like Key n' Stroke for showing onscreen keys/clicks. I drag and drop the video files into Handbrake afterwards so I'm not sharing massive files. It does a great job of keeping the files slim and then I upload them to Onedrive where I have a folder separating different reports and sample files.
Both OBS and Handbrake are open source and free to use. OBS runs very well along with everything else and is a solution many use and many other "paid" solutions are variations of OBS:
https://obsproject.com/download
https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
In OBS it is now possible to set to record to "Hybrid .mp4" which is critical because if there is a crash, etc, then the video file will still be readable. Many other formats will require a stopped recording to finalize, so keep that in mind. However it is recorded is less important if you're running it through Handbrake anyway which will reformat it into whatever settings are chosen.
I have a dynamic condenser mic which I have tuned but a vast majority of that is for personal recordings rather than for streaming... I recommend if you get a "good mic", setup filters so that it's not picking up everything in your vicinity. It does not need need to be hundreds of dollars. Mine is a $70-80 Mackie with the proper software filtering to block out all the noise in my local environment.
If you have an Nvidia GPU, do take advantage of that also and use their filters which are pretty darn great...
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This is a good introductory to setting up OBS mic filters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLUJ3bR4Yk
Here are my OBS "Recording" settings:
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Handbrake is fairly straightforward to adjust. Most people use mp4. The only thing I changed is I set it to "compress" my files locally and keep them in the same folder with a suffix:
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Preferences > Output Files
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If you need anything more than that, just PM... I'm also in the VS Discord
Edit: Actually it's a condenser mic. I got it mixed up with husband's music setup...