Seagate SkyHawk AI  is a surveillance-optimised drive designed for NVRs with artificial intelligence (AI) for edge applications.

Key Advantages

ImagePerfect AI firmware delivers zero dropped frames while supporting heavier workloads.

Versatile capabilities intelligently adapt to the scale of your AI environment, supporting up to 64 HD video streams and 32 AI streams.

Rest easy with three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services, offering an industry-leading 90% success rate against unexpected data loss from power outages, natural disasters, user error, viruses and more.

SkyHawk Health Management actively helps protect your surveillance storage by focusing on prevention, intervention, and recovery options.

Included RAID RapidRebuild provides 3¡Á faster volume rebuilds.

Higher reliability with 2M hours MTBF and a 550 TB/year workload rate for more than 3¡Á that of standard surveillance hard drives.

Powerful processing to welcome workload challenges ¡ª SkyHawk AI supports video analysis and recording simultaneously with GPU analytics workloads.

Enjoy consistent performance with built-in rotational vibration sensors providing reliable storage for NAS with little lag or downtime.

Multi-bay support helps you meet your growing storage demands with up to 16+ bays.

Best-Fit Applications

• Network video recorders (NVR)
• AI-enabled NVR systems

Specifications:

FastFormat models ship in 512e format state. When switching from 512e to 4Kn by executing the FastFormat routine, all data on the drive will be deleted. Note that data must be aligned to 4K sectors to see improved performance in 4Kn fomat.

Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated drives available through franchised authorised distributors. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support.

Supports Hotplug operation per Serial ATA Revision 3.3 specification

These base deck dimensions conform to the Small Form Factor Standard (SFF-8301) found at www.sffcommittee.org. For connector-related dimensions, see SFF-8323.