Seagate Releases Surveillance Specific Storage
Seagate Releases Surveillance Specific Storage
March 1, 2006: Increasingly sophisticated software used in digital video surveillance is making big brother hungry for storage. Seagate has announced that it is stepping up to satisfy this hunger with its new SV35 hard drive.
J.P. Freeman and Co. estimate that the worldwide market for digital video surveillance hardware is US$4.5B at the factory level, and is increasing at an average compound rate of 42%. This heavy growth is accelerating the evolution of video security software, and in turn the storage hardware required to support it.
Reviewing recorded footage used to be a completely manual process taking which could take hours, days or even months to discover useful information. Digital video security systems are now able to automatically preview and flag security events in seconds. This is helped by high-resolution image capture, however detailed footage requires vast amounts of digital video data.
With capacities of 160GB, 250GB and 500GB and up to 23 days continuous recording, Seagate says its SV35 offers not only the storage required for digital video surveillance, but also the fast access and review of recorded video that is impossible on legacy tape based systems.
To support this, Seagate says it has implemented a unique combination of features to improve performance, power management and reliability. These include the ATA 7 command set, which enables tuning of the read/write profile specifically for digital video and power management features such as a low start-up current that enables the design of efficient, low cost power supplies.
Seagate says that the SV35 will begin shipping in April 2006.
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