For years, storage has been the predictable part of video surveillance. You sized up the recorder, set your retention period, and forgot about it. If the system was recording, everything seemed fine.

Though not as fast in our tests as Seagate’s IronWolf Pro, the SkyHawk is still a very fast hard drive, tuned for surveillance purposes. Seagate says it’s optimized for use in NVRs. The AI version is ...