Seagate has announced that the SkyHawk AI 24TB will begin shipping this month, priced at $599.99.
Here’s a description of the new and advanced video-optimized drive from Seagate, which is designed specifically for NVRs (enterprise network video recorders) that are enabled with AI and to address what Seagate says is the surging mass data needs of the edge security industry:
As a surge of AI-powered applications are implemented by organizations, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) are increasingly contingent on the organization’s ability to efficiently store and access massive sets of data. Seagate’s SkyHawk AI 24TB is an advanced video-optimized 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 analyze 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 550TB/year workload rate—three times that of standard surveillance hard drives and up to ten times more than that of desktop hard drives. 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.
And here’s the data sheet for the SkyHawk AI 24TB, which lists data transfer rates of up to 285/272 MB/s and echoes Seagate’s MTBF from above.
Seagate previously launched the Exos X24 24TB, a conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based 7200 RPM hard drive that features sustained data rates of up to 295 MB/s.