Testseek.com have collected 51 expert reviews of the Seagate 3.5 inch SkyHawk Surveillance SATA600 ST-VX Series and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate 3.5 inch SkyHawk Surveillance SATA600 ST-VX Series.
May 2021
(85%)
51 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(81%)
359 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
85010051
The editors liked
Build Quality
Very Good Performance (For Such A Drive)
Idle3 Spin Control Technology (Power Save)
Power
Build Quality (180TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF)
Near-Excellent Performance (SATA)
256MB Cache
10TB's Capacity
Temperatures / Power
Highest capacity surveillance drive currently shipping
Strongest sequential write performance
Large bump in iSCSI performance over prior generation
Designed to work with most surveillance equipment
250MBps sustained transfer rates
AI version carries a 5-year warranty
Sensors help compensate for the vibration from other hard drives in an array
The editors didn't like
None
Price (For Some)
Falls behind WD Purple in iSCSI sequential transfers
Abstract: In the beginning there was Storage and the Gods of the IT department liked it. There was no choice. There was no worrying over what was best for what server. It was Storage and all was right in the garden of Eden. Then Adam and st/Eve ate of the Apple of...
Abstract: What's the most critical component of any computer system?Right: the drive that contains YOUR data! And yet we give so little attention to which company we entrust our digital life to and to preserve it.I've had countless hard drives and SSDs fail in work...
250MBps sustained transfer rates, AI version carries a 5-year warranty, Sensors help compensate for the vibration from other hard drives in an array
Not as fast in our tests as the IronWolf, Not much cheaper than the Barracuda or IronWolf
The SkyHawk is an excellent hard drive, and all things being otherwise equal, the 14TB drive I'd likely put in a single drive or mirrored NVR. But its siblings the IronWolf and the Barracuda, and for that matter, WD's Gold and Purple (another surveillance...
Seagate once again proves why it has been a leader in storage solutions for nearly 40 years and shows no signs of slowing down. While Seagate has done application specific drives for a long time, the new Guardian families make it incredibly simple to get...
Build Quality (180TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF), Near-Excellent Performance (SATA), 256MB Cache, 10TB's Capacity, Temperatures / Power
Price (For Some),
Having the ability to choose from a wide selection of hard disk drives tailored for specific uses is never a bad thing so it's no wonder the Guardian Series by Seagate has been welcomed by millions of people around the world. Still although Se...
Highest capacity surveillance drive currently shipping, Strongest sequential write performance, large bump in iSCSI performance over prior generation, Designed to work with most surveillance equipment
Falls behind WD Purple in iSCSI sequential transfers
The Seagate SkyHawk is a drive designed to work specifically in surveillance; the drive has a massive 10TB capacity and great performance for this targeted use case...
Published: 2016-10-10, Author: Victor , review by: Bjorn3d.com
Abstract: Seagate has recently announced their Guardian Series of hard drives that delivers storage capacity up to 10TB, that is 10,000 GB! It is crazy to even think about what to do with that much storage space. We believe that fora typical household, if you conso...
Build Quality, Very Good Performance (For Such A Drive), Idle3 Spin Control Technology (Power Save), Power
None
Having just recently reviewed the latest Enterprise Capacity V4 6TB SATA III drives by Seagate (6-12Gb/s SAS model review coming soon) which are simply put the fastest mechanical drives to date is reason enough for both us and you to think that the Survei...
Abstract: Video surveillance has been around for years. Grainy gas station cameras are giving way to higher-end 1080p-capable IP cameras, and storage is evolving to meet the needs of these ever-expanding solutions. Today we look at two new entries into the market. ...
10 TB of storage, Great read speeds for a HDD even in random IO, Low power usage for a 7200 RPM drive, Perfect for backup storage or surveillance
Slightly slower singlestream write speeds compared to reads, Even with faster speeds, recovering in a RAID array will take time
I think at this point it is clear that the Seagate SkyHawk is a force to be contended with. It's bigger, faster, and more durable than its predecessors, while at the same time using less power. Granted, this is no SSD, but for bulk storage it's hard to ar...
