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Seagate ’ s expanded hard drive capacity offers flexibility and performance for modern video security system needs .

data storage and management solutions , has announced it is shipping 18TB SkyHawk Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) drives in volume .

According to Seagate , SkyHawk AI is the world ’ s first purpose-built hard drive for Artificial Intelligenceenabled Surveillance solutions , enabling quicker and smarter decisions . The new drive supports deep learning and Machine Learning workload streams for Edge applications with ImagePerfectAI .

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 significantly more data than traditional video capture .

SkyHawk AI simultaneously sustains 32 AI streams alongside 64 video streams and supports multibay NVR and AI-enabled NVR . SkyHawk AI offers a 550TB / year workload rate , more than 3 × the workload rate of standard surveillance hard drives in order to manage data deluge in complex video security system environments without sacrificing performance .

This drive intelligently adapts between traditional video workloads and video + AI workloads .

“ 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 ,” said Jeff Fochtman , Senior Vice President , Marketing and Business at Seagate Technology .

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