The data storage company Seagate Technology plc is shipping 18TB SkyHawk Artificial Intelligence drives in volume. SkyHawk AI is described by the manufacturer as a purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance use. The new drive supports deep learning and machine learning workload streams for Edge applications with ImagePerfectAI.
As the company says, the capacity to retain more data over time is required for deep learning systems to become smarter and more accurate in their predictive analysis, and behaviour analysis requires more data than traditional video capture. SkyHawk AI simultaneously sustains 32 AI streams alongside 64 video streams and supports multi-bay network recorder (NVR) and AI-enabled NVR.
SkyHawk AI offers a 550TB/year workload rate, more than three times the workload rate of standard surveillance hard drives. This drive adapts between traditional video workloads and video+AI workloads, the developers add.
Jeff Fochtman, senior vice president, marketing and business at Seagate Technology said: “Seagate’s SkyHawk AI 18TB video security system hard drive was designed for growing data demands to accommodate nodes of any size making it easy to scale from terabytes to petabytes. With the SkyHawk AI 18TB, Seagate has seen improvements in operational and analytical processes, providing faster access to video security footage when compared earlier versions.”
Built to meet an always-on large workload in an AI-enabled NVR system, SkyHawk AI 18TB accommodates recording and analysing footage simultaneously from multiple cameras. It includes three years of Seagate Rescue Services in the event of data loss or accident and a standard three-year limited warranty.
