Product Description & Specifications
Based on Seagate’s product listings and multiple reputable retailers, here’s what you can expect from the Seagate SkyHawk 8 TB surveillance drive:
ImagePerfect™ Firmware for smooth 24×7 video recording with no dropped frames. Optimized for recording surveillance footage (~90% recording, ~10% playback) 
SkyHawk Health Management and RV sensors help protect data integrity and maintain performance in multi-drive environments (like RAID or NVR systems) 
Supports up to 64 HD camera streams simultaneously .
Workload rating of up to 180 TB/year, approximately 3× higher than desktop-class hard drives .
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) around 1 million hours (or even 2 million hours for AI series) .
Cache: 256 MB.
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s.
Tolerance: Built for air-cooled environments with tarnish-resistant materials, rated for continuous power-on hours per year (8,760 hr).
Designed with AI-capable processing, especially in the SkyHawk AI variant (up to 32 AI streams, rapid RAID rebuild).