18TB SkyHawk AI Surveillance HDD, SATA III w/ 256MB Cache

SkyHawk™ AI Surveillance Hard Drives – Smart, Safe, Secure. AI-Optimized Surveillance Hard Drives

• Perfect for AI-surveillance NVR
• ImagePerfect™ 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 stream.
• SkyHawk Health Management actively helps protect your surveillance storage by focusing on prevention, intervention, and recovery options.¹ Included RAID RapidRebuild™ provides 3x faster volume rebuilds
• Higher reliability with 2M hours MTBF and a 550TB/year workload rate for more than 3x that of standard surveillance hard drives.
• Powerful processing to welcome workload challenges - 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.

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Optimized for DVRs and NVRs, SkyHawk™ surveillance drives are tuned for 24x7 workloads in capacities up to 18TB. Equipped with enhanced ImagePerfect™ firmware, SkyHawk™ helps to minimize dropped frames and downtime with a workload rating 3x that of a desktop drive and IS ready to record up to 90% of the time while supporting up to 64 HD cameras.

Your Data Deserves the Guardian Series

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 18TB surveillance hard drives to help you achieve your goals.

SkyHawk Is Smart

The innovative ImagePerfect™ firmware enables smooth, clear video streaming for always-on, 24/7 surveillance environments - helping to ensure your business can always have a formidable layer of protection.

SkyHawk AI is Designed for AI Surveillance

• Supports up to 64 HD cameras and 32 additional AI streams¹
• Now offering capacities up to 18TB
• Delivers zero dropped frames with ImagePerfect AI
• Enterprise-class workload rates at 550TB/yr for high reliability

1. 32 AI streams = 16 AI channels.

24x7 Clear Streaming 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.

Rescue Services & Drive Health Included

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.

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