Seagate’s SkyHawk AI 24 TB drive supports 10,000 hours of video and analytics for A1-enabled surveillance systems.

Advanced video-optimised drive

As a surge of AI-powered applications are implemented by organisations, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) are increasingly contingent on the organisation’s ability to efficiently store and access massive sets of data.

Seagate’s SkyHawk AI 24 TB is an advanced video-optimised drive specifically designed for network video recorders (NVRs) enabled with AI for edge security applications and meets the challenge of today’s advanced systems to analyse and record video footage while simultaneously supporting GPU analytics. 

SkyHawk AI intelligently scales to accommodate today’s diverse surveillance environments supporting up to 64 HD video camera streams and 32 additional AI streams.

Tailored for NVR environments with AI for running edge security applications, it supports 10,000 hours of video and analytics including the heavy workloads of AI-enabled 24/7 surveillance systems while ensuring zero dropped frames with Seagate’s powerful ImagePerfect AI firmware. 

An enterprise-class solution, SkyHawk AI features high reliability with up to 2.5 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF) and a 550 TB/year workload rate – three times that of standard surveillance hard drives and up to ten times more than that of desktop hard drives.

Health Management

Seagate’s SkyHawk Health Management tool in compatible NVR systems actively watches environmental and usage conditions and recommends preventative actions if necessary. 

SkyHawk Health Management also features RAID RapidRebuild that rebuilds volumes up to three times faster than standard hard drives.

The drive includes a five-year limited product warranty and three years of Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Service. 

Skyhawk AI features:

• ImagePerfect AI delivers zero dropped frames while supporting heavier workloads 
• Versatile capabilities intelligently adapts to the scale of your AI environment, supporting up to 64 HD video streams and 32 AI streams 
• SkyHawk Health Management actively helps protect your surveillance storage by focusing on prevention, intervention and recovery options. It includes RAID RapidRebuild – providing three times faster volume rebuilds over traditional RAID rebuilds
• Higher reliability and enterprise-class, Skyhawk AI hard drives offer 2.5 million hours MTBF and a 550 TB per year workload rate for more than three times that of standard surveillance hard drives
• Recovery services and warranty includes a five-year limited product warranty and three-year in-house Rescue Data Recovery Services

Seagate’s Rescue Service is an exclusive USP, enabled by Seagate’s own data labs in Netherlands. This service comes free of cost with all 3Tb and above Skyhawk drives. More information click here.

This article was originally published in the May edition of Security Journal UK. To read your FREE digital edition, click here.