1TB / 2TB / 3TB / 4TB Hikvision Seagate Skyhawk Surveillance Security HDD 24/7 durable designed for CCTV Hikvision DVR Recorder Recording 5900RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5' HDD
RM209.99
- Seagate and Hikvision – collaborating for a solutionBased on the feedback of Hikvision and other surveillance manufacturers, Seagate saw the need for a unique hard drive that would meet the demands of the rapidly growing surveillance market. With Hikvision’s help, the data storage company took on the challenge of creating a specialised product to accommodate surveillance applications. Thus, the collaborative relationship between Seagate and Hikvision began.With the hope of designing the best possible product, Seagate sent a dedicated sales and engineering team to Hikvision in 2005. By establishing a technical relationship with Hikvision, which continues today, Seagate has gained a clear understanding of their system needs and the requirements of surveillance applications in general.“Hikvision’s experiences revealed the performance and durability gaps of desktop drives within a surveillance environment,” confirmed John Fenstermaker, Director of Firmware R&D at Seagate and one of the founders of the first surveillance drive. “It’s in our best interest at Seagate to make sure things work as well as possible for our customers.”“First and foremost, desktop drives were not built to operate all day, every day while recording from multiple cameras,” said Fenstermaker. “Drives designed for PC applications support lighter workloads, like that of your personal computer, which you might use for a few hours a day to browse the Internet, create a presentation or view family photos. Workloads like this consist of a less predictable set of actions but overall, they’re fairly light commands for the drive to support.”In addition to always-on operation, the large streaming workloads from multiple video cameras proved too much for desktop drives, often resulting in lost video frames – an unacceptable issue for anyone in the surveillance space.Furthermore, the desktop drives lacked specific power management features critical to minimising power consumption and heat emission in multi-drive systems, both of which help enhance overall system reliability. “We needed a storage solution that could withstand a variety of temperature ranges to record reliably,” said Eric Shen, Product Manager at Hikvision. “Think about where you’d store a surveillance system. Typically it’s hidden in a closet, or maybe even placed outdoors, but not often within a temperature-controlled environment with good air circulation.”Yet another challenge for desktop drives involved the multi-drive architectures common to surveillance applications. When more hard drives are packed into a solution, tolerance to both heat and vibration is of utmost importance. Levels of vibration emitted from the rotating hard drives can be amplified across the system and become detrimental to desktop drives.In an effort to resolve these issues, Seagate and Hikvision underwent the collaborative journey of developing a new hard drive – one that would fit not only Hikvision’s needs, but also the needs of other surveillance systems.
