AI-enabled video imaging and analytics systems require support for heavy workloads that process and analyse multiple streams, and thousands of hours of video data.
During the ISC West 2022 trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Seagate Technology Holdings plc (Seagate Technology), a globally renowned company in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, launched the new SkyHawk AI 20TB hard disk drive (HDD). The mass-capacity HDD adds to the company’s renowned line of video imaging and analytics (VIA) devices.
SkyHawk AI 20TB hard disk drive (HDD)
Purposely designed for network video recorders (NVRs) enabled with AI for edge security applications, Seagate’s SkyHawk AI 20TB HDD intelligently adapts to the scale of the users’ AI environment, supporting up to 64 HD video streams and 32 AI streams.
With this capability to support scalable AI workloads, SkyHawk AI meets the growing needs of advanced VIA systems to analyse and record video footage, while simultaneously supporting GPU analytics.
Built with ImagePerfect AI firmware
The SkyHawk AI 20TB hard disk drive delivers zero dropped frames, while supporting heavier workloads
Built with ImagePerfect AI firmware, the SkyHawk AI 20TB hard disk drive delivers zero dropped frames, while supporting heavier workloads. An enterprise-class hard disk drive, the new SkyHawk AI 20TB HDD features high reliability with two million hours mean-time between failures (MTBF) and a 550TB/year workload rate, supporting over three times the workload of standard VIA drives.
The drive comes equipped with SkyHawk Health Management to actively protect users’ VIA storage, by monitoring environmental and usage conditions, and recommending preventative actions, if necessary.
Rescue Data Recovery Services
With three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services, Seagate Technology’s SkyHawk AI 20TB HDD gives users the power to recover data from unexpected loss due to power outages, user error, and more.
Qualified and tested by the company’s VIA partners, earlier in 2022, SkyHawk AI 20TB hard disk drive is mass shipping now and available for a price of 449.90 pounds.