Seagate SkyHawk 14TB hard drive review: Fast, surveillance-optimized storage
Ever in the pursuit of top performance, Seagate has recently released the $510 SkyHawk and announced the SkyHawk AI 14TB drives. These employ the same basic technology found on the the IronWolf, IronWolf Pro, Barracuda, and Barracuda Pro, but are optimized for heavy-duty surveillance work where multiple cameras (up to a whopping 64, though frame rates weren't mentioned) are streaming to the hard drive. The goal being to drop nary a frame. One would hope.
Design, specs, and AI
The SkyHawk is a 3.5-inch, SATA 3 (6Gbps) hard drive with eight spinning platters and the accompanying read-write heads. It uses parallel magnetic recording and sports 256MB of DRAM cache. The plain version is warrantied for three years of full 24/7 use, while the AI version is guaranteed for five years.