"The Seagate Skyhawk AI family consists of 8 GB and 10 TB models"
I imagine 8 TB* was meant, as later in the article... "By contrast, the original SkyHawk 8 TB and 10 TB featured up to 210 MB/s maximum sustained transfer".
Seems kind of odd to advertise a hard drive of having AI capabilities, but in reality the differences to their other 10TB and 8TB drive offerings is a retooled caching priority and vibration tolerances for 8 ~ 16 bay enclosures.
Just slap these in a RAID 0 configuration inside Linux. I have 2x 4TB WD Purple drives in RAID 0 for my NVR that work marvelously. Camera recording is a mainly sequential write process. Also, most HD camera recordings are 1080p now.
They didn't specify frame rate, I suspect they will manage one frame per second ;)
Once again, we see a faddy gimmick supposedly addressing something that is already easily solvable. A good surveillance system will encode and buffer optimum sized chunks of data before writing them to disk.
You can have decent quality 1080p h264 video as low as 8 mbits/s which is 1 mb. So technically, a 200+ MB hdd could service 200 of those streams.
However, an actually HDD will not be able to handle anywhere nearly that if data is continuously streamed in finely grained chunks, because seeking overhead will overwhelm the drive.
But if you apply proper buffering seeking can be reduced to a non-issue. Throwing a gig of ram at buffering will easily allow to achieve the theoretical maximum. No "special AI fad firmware" needed, just a barely-adequate bit of software running on the client machine.
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JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
"The Seagate Skyhawk AI family consists of 8 GB and 10 TB models"I imagine 8 TB* was meant, as later in the article... "By contrast, the original SkyHawk 8 TB and 10 TB featured up to 210 MB/s maximum sustained transfer".
Seems kind of odd to advertise a hard drive of having AI capabilities, but in reality the differences to their other 10TB and 8TB drive offerings is a retooled caching priority and vibration tolerances for 8 ~ 16 bay enclosures.
peevee - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
Everything AI now, even when 0 intelligence is present. Marketoids must be summarily shot.ddriver - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 - link
Ai ai ai....Riding the fad to the max.
Put some RGB LEDs on it FFS. Because comic hero product names are not lame enough already.
Visual - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
"simultaneously record footage from dozens of HD cameras""Peak Sustained Transfer Rate 214 MB/s"
Hahahahaha nice joke.
MrSpadge - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
With HD they surely mean the low resolution of 1360x768, which was considered "high" in the TV world a few years ago.willis936 - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Surely your NVRs are configured for 1 Mbps h.264 streams.Ninhalem - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Just slap these in a RAID 0 configuration inside Linux. I have 2x 4TB WD Purple drives in RAID 0 for my NVR that work marvelously. Camera recording is a mainly sequential write process. Also, most HD camera recordings are 1080p now.ddriver - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
They didn't specify frame rate, I suspect they will manage one frame per second ;)Once again, we see a faddy gimmick supposedly addressing something that is already easily solvable. A good surveillance system will encode and buffer optimum sized chunks of data before writing them to disk.
You can have decent quality 1080p h264 video as low as 8 mbits/s which is 1 mb. So technically, a 200+ MB hdd could service 200 of those streams.
However, an actually HDD will not be able to handle anywhere nearly that if data is continuously streamed in finely grained chunks, because seeking overhead will overwhelm the drive.
But if you apply proper buffering seeking can be reduced to a non-issue. Throwing a gig of ram at buffering will easily allow to achieve the theoretical maximum. No "special AI fad firmware" needed, just a barely-adequate bit of software running on the client machine.