Now in its tenth year of shipping surveillance drives, Seagate’s latest 10TB SkyHawk product is for surveillance systems needing large storage for network video recording (NVR), part of the company’s Guardian Series of 10TB (terabyte) products.
SkyHawk drives use rotational vibration sensors to help minimise read-write errors, the makers say, and can support the 64 cameras, more than any other drive on the market, it is claimed. The product is suitable the manufacturers add for modern, hi-resolution systems running 24-7, SkyHawk drives also come with a data recovery services option.
SkyHawk is sampling to select customers with wide-scale availability to be announced shortly. For more on all Seagate products visit www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives. The firm has also launched 10TB drives for desktop and NAS use.
What they say
R&D director Chenghua Sun at Hikvision said: “Seagate pioneered surveillance purpose-built drives more than ten years ago with Hikvision’s R&D team, and today they continue to lead and partner closely with us to develop surveillance storage solutions of the future. With the advances in camera technology from 4k to thermal to panoramic recording, Hikvision believes in Seagate’s technology to optimise storage for highest quality recordings and to ensure customer data is safe and secure.”
James Wang, vice president of Dahua Overseas Business Center, said: “Seagate is a powerful storage brand in the surveillance market. We’re proud to stand-by them as a strategic partner and to introduce the next evolution of Seagate surveillance storage with SkyHawk and an incredible 10TB capacity point.”
And John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk drives, said: “Libraries of digital content continue to expand, both in the home and the workplace. Seagate’s new 10TB HDD product lineup provides consumers and organizations with a range of capacious, on-premise HDD storage alternatives to the cloud that address a wide variety of storage use cases.”
Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of Client and Consumer Storage at Seagate, said: “Consumers and organisations today face a similar challenge — what to do about the massive deluge of data and video they confront every day. Whether it’s dominating in the latest game, producing compelling multimedia content, mining data to help create new apps and business services, helping to protect people and places around the world against new threats, and more, the Seagate Guardian Series is designed to preserve your most critical data and move it where it’s needed fast so you can make the most of it. By incorporating powerful new features and capabilities, our 10TB products also make it easier for everyone to create, consume and use data.”
