Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB Released

Today Seagate Technology plc announced yet another high capacity HDD in the Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB. Like the earlier entries in the line, the latest is also purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance solutions, enabling quicker and smarter decisions. The newer drive is all about the expanded capacity and is shipping today.

Today Seagate Technology plc announced yet another high capacity HDD in the Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB. Like the earlier entries in the line, the latest is also purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance solutions, enabling quicker and smarter decisions. The newer drive is all about the expanded capacity and is shipping today.

As we said previously about the SkyHawk AI HDD, Seagate has taken its SkyHawk drive and added its ImagePerfect AI firmware. This addition of firmware speeds up the performance, mostly random performance, to better aide AI with analytics. Seagate also updated its caching algorithms to also better accommodate heavy workloads and increase random seek performance. Similar to the company’s NAS line of drives (IronWolf and IronWolf Pro), the new SkyHawk AI HDDs have higher reliability and longer warranties, 3-year limited in this case.

The new larger capacities work well for the always-on large workload in an AI enabled NVR systems. With 18TB each, the HDDS can accommodate recording and analyzing footage simultaneously from multiple cameras.

Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB key specifications

Capacity	18T B	16T B	14T B	12T B	10T B
Standard Model Numbers	ST 18000VE002	ST 16000VE002	ST 14000VE0008	ST 12000VE001	ST 10000VE0008
Interface	SATA 6Gb/s	SATA 6Gb/s	SATA 6Gb/s	SATA 6Gb/s	SATA 6Gb/s
Recording Technology	CMR	CMR	CMR	CMR	CMR
Drive Design	H elium	H elium	H elium	H elium	H elium
Features and Performance
Drive Bays Supported	16+	16+	16+	16+	16+
AI Channels	32	32	32	32	32
AI Real Time Capture Events/Sec	Up to 120	Up to 120	Up to 120	Up to 120	Up to 120
AI Real Time Compare Events/Sec	Up to 96	Up to 96	Up to 96	Up to 96	Up to 96
HD Cameras Supported	Up to 64	Up to 64	Up to 64	Up to 64	Up to 64
RV Sensors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s)	260MB/s	250MB/s	250MB/s	250MB/s	250MB/s
Cache (MB)	256	256	256	256	256
Reliability/Data Integrity
Tarnish Resistant	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Load/Unload Cycles	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000
Nonrecoverable Read Errors Rate, Max	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15
Power-On Hours per year	8760	8760	8760	8760	8760
Workload Rate Limit (WRL)	550	550	550	550	550
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) (hours)	2,000,000hr	2,000,000hr	2,000,000hr	2,000,000hr	2,000,000hr
Warranty, Limited (years)	3	3	3	3	3
Rescue Data Recovery Services (years)	3	3	—	3	3
Power Management
Startup Current, Typical (12V, A)	2.0	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8
Average Operating Power (W)	8.0W	6.71W	6.9W	6.9W	6.9W
Idle Average (W)	5.3W	5.1W	4.9W	4.9W	4.9W
Standby Mode/Sleep Mode, Typical (W)	1.3/1.3	1.05/1.05	1.2/1.2	1.2/1.2	1.2/1.2
Voltage Tolerance (5V)	±5%	±5%	±5%	±5%	±5%
Voltage Tolerance (12V)	±10%	±10%	±10%	±10%	±10%
Environmental/Temperature
Operating (ambient, min °C)	0	5	5	5	5
Operating (drive case, max °C)	65	70	70	70	70
Nonoperating (ambient, min °C)	-40	-40	-40	-40	-40
Physical
Height (mm/in, max)	26.11mm/1.028in	26.11mm/1.028in	26.11mm/1.028in	26.11mm/1.028in	26.11mm/1.028in
Width (mm/in, max)	101.85mm/4.01in	101.85mm/4.01in	101.85mm/4.01in	101.85mm/4.01in	101.85mm/4.01in
Depth (mm/in, max)	146.99mm/5.787in	146.99mm/5.787in	146.99mm/5.787in	146.99mm/5.787in	146.99mm/5.787in
Weight (g/lb, typical)	670g/1.477lb	670g/1.477lb	690g/1.521lb	690g/1.521lb	690g/1.521lb

Availability and Pricing

The Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB is out now and comes with a MSRP of $510.85.

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