Seagate® SkyHawk™ AI 18 TB 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× faster volume rebuilds.
Higher reliability with 2M hours MTBF and a 550 TB/year workload rate for more than 3× 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.

Capacity
8TB

Interface
SATA 6 Gb/s

Recording Technology
CMR

Drive Design
Air

Features and Performance
Drive Bays Supported
16+

AI Channels
32

AI Real Time Capture Events/Sec
Up to 120

AI Real Time Compare Events/Sec
Up to 96

HD Cameras Supported
Up to 64

RV Sensors
Yes

Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s)
235MB/s

Cache (MB)
256

Reliability/Data Integrity
Tarnish Resistant
Yes

Load/Unload Cycles
300,000

Non-recoverable Read Errors Rate, Max
1 per 10E15

Power-On Hours per year
8,760

Workload Rate Limit (WRL)
550

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) (hours)
2,000,000 hr

Rescue Data Recovery Services (years)
3

Power Management
Startup Current, Typical (12V, A)
1.8

Average Operating Power (W)
8.73 W

Idling Average (W)
7.5 W

Standby Mode/Sleep Mode, Typical (W)
0.96/0.96

Voltage Tolerance (5 V)
+10%/-5%

Voltage Tolerance (12 V)
+/-10%

Environmental/Temperature
Operating (ambient, min ^oC)
5

Operating (drive case, max ^oC)
70

Non-operating (ambient, min ^oC)
-40

Item Dimension (L inchxW inchxH inch)
6 x 5 x 2

Weight
1.58 lb

Warranty Information
Limited 5 years warranty