Market Leader in Surveillance Storage
Seagate has dominated the data storage industry for 40 years because we understand your unique data storage challenges.
We crafted SkyHawk™ AI 18 TB surveillance hard drives to help you achieve your goals.
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24×7 workloads can leverage up to 18 TB with drives designed for DVR and NVR systems. SkyHawk surveillance drives are equipped with enhanced ImagePerfect™ and SkyHawk Health Management to help you sail through your toughest challenges.
Designed for AI Surveillance
We’ve made the right drive for your unique surveillance challenges.
- Supports up to 64 HD cameras and 32 additional AI streams
- Now offering capacities up to 18 TB
- Delivers zero dropped frames with ImagePerfect AI
- Enterprise-class workload rates at 550TB/yr for high reliability
Smart Surveillance
SkyHawk’s innovative ImagePerfect and ImagePerfect AI firmware are the clearest choices in the industry.
Watch a video that explains how ImagePerfect firmware enables better performance in surveillance environments.
Manage Drive Health
Video data is increasingly becoming more important within video surveillance applications. To better protect that data and provide peace of mind, Seagate is including three years of their industry-leading Rescue Data Recovery Services.
Data is important, and Rescue Data Recovery Services provide peace of mind in case of unexpected or accidental data corruption and drive damage. This service gives you access to a global team of world-class data recovery experts and has a 95% customer satisfaction rating.
SkyHawk Health Management (SHM) drive monitoring software is designed for prevention, intervention and recovery. It is available on standard SkyHawk and SKyHawk AI surveillance hard drives.
Protect Your Drive
Every SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI hard drive offers three years of Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Services plan to protect against problems that can cause data loss.
| Weight & dimensions |
| Width | 101.8 mm |
| Height | 26.1 mm |
| Depth | 147 mm |
| Weight | 716 g |
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| Power |
| Power consumption (typical) | 8.73 W |
| Power consumption (standby) | 0.96 W |
| Power consumption (idle) | 7.5 W |
| Operating voltage | 5 / 12 V |
| Start-up current | 1.8 A |
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| Operational conditions |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 5 - 70 °C |
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| Features |
| HDD size | 3.5" |
| HDD capacity | 8000 GB |
| HDD speed | 7200 RPM |
| Interface | Serial ATA III |
| Type | HDD |
| Component for | Surveillance system |
| Storage drive buffer size | 256 MB |
| HDD interface transfer rate | 6 Gbit/s |
| HDD average transfer rate | 250 MB/s |
| SMART technology | Y |
| Start/stop cycles | 300000 |
| Workload rate limit | 550 TB/year |
| Mean time between failures (MTBF) | 2000000 h |
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| Logistics data |
| Harmonized System (HS) code | 84717050 |
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