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SkyHawk AI is ideal for intensive computational workloads that typically accompany AI work streams, as its high throughput and enhanced caching deliver low latency and excellent random read performance to quickly locate and deliver video images and footage analysis. This enables on-the-edge decision making, eliminating the latency of exchanging cloud-based data and processing. Equipped with Seagate ImagePerfect™ AI firmware, the drive reliably records high quality, sharp video footage with no dropped frames, while simultaneously facilitating AI-enabled NVR analytics – ensuring that intelligence gathered through video surveillance footage is not lost.
meerkt wrote:What a load of crap:
https://www.seagate.com/about-seagate/n ... master-pr/
I want an HDD optimized for rickrolling. I suggest calling it RickHawk Platinum. The drive motor could be made to avoid rotating in harmonics related to the song, and so improve average performance while rickrolling.
Acidicheartburn wrote:Wouldn't the sort people/businesses who need this sort of low latency random reads for sophisticated AI be able to afford large capacity solid state storage anyhow? Jeez.
Acidicheartburn wrote:Wouldn't the sort people/businesses who need this sort of low latency random reads for sophisticated AI be able to afford large capacity solid state storage anyhow? Jeez.
strangerguy wrote:AI / machine learning is the new IoT / cloud buzzword fad.
MileageMayVary wrote:Large capacity solid state at the enterprise level is stupid expensive.
curtisb wrote:I thought the ones making the decisions would be at least as savvy as your average DIY home computer assembler.Unfortunately, a lot of people in the position to make the decision about the storage behind their surveillance software will be the ones wowed by all the buzz words.
the wrote:I don't want it on no stinking floppy drives. I want it on 16TB 15kRPM HDDs!
meerkt wrote:curtisb wrote:Unfortunately, a lot of people in the position to make the decision about the storage behind their surveillance software will be the ones wowed by all the buzz words.
I thought the ones making the decisions would be at least as savvy as your average DIY home computer assembler.
curtisb wrote:MileageMayVary wrote:Large capacity solid state at the enterprise level is stupid expensive.
Never has a truer statement been made. Enterprise storage in general is stupid expensive. If you need high capacity, you're definitely still going for spinning disks. Using SSD's as caching drives still makes for some pretty impressive I/O. Most enterprise-level SANs these days do data tiering...meaning that files/blocks that are accessed often are placed on faster storage like SSD's, while other files are stored down on spinning disks. They will even taken into account the rotational speed and RAID level. For example, 15K RPM drives in RAID 10 would be favored over 15K RPM drives in RAID 6. There's a lot of *ahem* analytics involved in figuring out what goes where.
meerkt wrote:curtisb wrote:I thought the ones making the decisions would be at least as savvy as your average DIY home computer assembler.Unfortunately, a lot of people in the position to make the decision about the storage behind their surveillance software will be the ones wowed by all the buzz words.
MileageMayVary wrote:(And in my job before that one at a small company, the "IT manager"* actually was adding storage by plugging external USB drives into the back of servers.)
meerkt wrote:Like some of you, I was remiss in not reading the press release carefully. Here are more hilites:
"unprecedented bandwidth and processing power" (translated: HDDs with moar coarz?)
"enabled more than 5X increase in exabytes" (translated: we, uh... sold drives)
"efficiently manage data storage and processing challenges" (translated: the new HDDs can store data)curtisb wrote:I thought the ones making the decisions would be at least as savvy as your average DIY home computer assembler.Unfortunately, a lot of people in the position to make the decision about the storage behind their surveillance software will be the ones wowed by all the buzz words.the wrote:I don't want it on no stinking floppy drives. I want it on 16TB 15kRPM HDDs!
MileageMayVary wrote:(And in my job before that one at a small company, the "IT manager"* actually was adding storage by plugging external USB drives into the back of servers.)
*neither word actually fit him
just brew it! wrote:Please tell me he wasn't adding them in RAID-0 pairs to improve performance.
(On second thought, that would just make the story better.)
MileageMayVary wrote:just brew it! wrote:Please tell me he wasn't adding them in RAID-0 pairs to improve performance.
(On second thought, that would just make the story better.)
I don't think he knew what RAID was, other than maybe a bug spray. This was the guy who very explicitly pointed out to me that he wrote TOP on the top side of the VGA cables in the projector bags so that no one would plug them in upside down... which would require a mallet to accomplish.
The only reason I could see to raid 0 two external USB hard drives would be: For Science!
meerkt wrote:I thought the ones making the decisions would be at least as savvy as your average DIY home computer assembler.
just brew it! wrote:I could imagine a thought process that goes, "Hey these USB drives seem kind of slow. I saw on some web site that you can improve hard drive performance by using something called RAID. Let's give that a try..."