Seagate Announces 24TB SkyHawk AI CMR Hard Drive

[btarunr]

Seagate Technology, a world leader in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, launched the new Seagate SkyHawk AI 24 TB hard disk drive (HDD) for the video and imaging applications (VIA) market. Following the recent launch of the company's capacity-leading Seagate Exos X24 24 TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based hard drive, the new SkyHawk AI 24 TB addresses 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 24 TB 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 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. 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.

Shipping this month, SkyHawk AI 24 TB is available for $599.99.

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[ianatikin]

Seagate is rubbish, how are They still exist?

 

[darakian]

Ahhh yes. A hard drive tailor made for my AI bytes. Can't just use any old hard drive for those /s

 

[Jun]

Normal HDD with AI attached to the name.

 

[HDBitdata]

So now every new tech item released should have the word AI? I blame Nvidis for starting this stupid trend

 

[Raiden85]

Seagate is rubbish, how are They still exist?

I’ve had less Seagates die than other brands, have a few old Seagate dives with between 35,000 and 50,000hrs of 24/7 usage and they’ve only been replaced due to lack of space, and these were just regular cheap desktop drives.

Running 2x 20TB Exos drives in my NAS at the moment and they’ve been running great for over a year so far.

At the end of the day they are mechanical drives and drives from any brand can fail at anytime.

 

[remixedcat]

I’ve had less Seagates die than other brands, have a few old Seagate dives with between 35,000 and 50,000hrs of 24/7 usage and they’ve only been replaced due to lack of space, and these were just regular cheap desktop drives.

Running 2x 20TB Exos drives in my NAS at the moment and they’ve been running great for over a year so far.

At the end of the day they are mechanical drives and drives from any brand can fail at anytime.

umm my wd and even my old maxtor drives still kickin but my less than 8 yr old seagate SSHD that I had in my office optiplex that is basically only a youtube and music box connected to an rca tv that has barely had any serious use is clickety clackety wickety wackety... I can hear it from the bedroom and linux takes a long time to do anything... I'll pop in a wd drive that's 15 yrs old and it still works fine...