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Seagate SkyHawk 2TB

This one's for camera recorders. Seagate sells it as a surveillance drive, and the ratings on its datasheet are written with CCTV in mind.

Capacity
2 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
5,400 rpm
Warranty
3 years
Workload
180 TB/yr
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • A CCTV recorder (NVR or DVR)

Not for

  • A NAS (Seagate gives it no NAS rating)
  • Heavy daily writes (180 TB a year rating)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Is the SkyHawk 2 TB right for you?

Got a CCTV box to fill? That's its home. It turns up when you sort everything by price per TB, which is why it's labelled here. In a NAS you'd be running it outside what Seagate rates it for, and for an array you want a drive that's rated for one.

Watch out for

Seagate doesn't rate it for NAS use at all, which rules it out for an array as far as we're concerned.

There's no Backblaze data worth quoting here. Seagate's datasheet puts it at 23 dB idle and 27 dB seeking. Power draw is 2.5 W idle and 3.7 W working on Seagate's figures, or 22 kWh a year if it spends the whole year idling.

Specifications

Each value links to the Seagate page or datasheet it came from.

Seagate SkyHawk 2TB specifications
Drive type Surveillance source for Drive type (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Capacity 2 TB source for Capacity (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Spindle speed 5,400 rpm source for Spindle speed (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Recording technology CMR source for Recording technology (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Cache 256 MB source for Cache (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Interface SATA 6Gb/s source for Interface (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Form factor 3.5in source for Form factor (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Max sustained transfer 180 MB/s source for Max sustained transfer (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Workload rating 180 TB/yr source for Workload rating (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
MTBF / MTTF 1,000,000 hours source for MTBF / MTTF (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Maker's rated AFR 0.87% source for Maker's rated AFR (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Warranty 3 years source for Warranty (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Power at idle 2.5 W source for Power at idle (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Power in use 3.7 W source for Power in use (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Noise at idle 23 dB source for Noise at idle (seagate.com, opens in new tab)
Noise when seeking 27 dB source for Noise when seeking (seagate.com, opens in new tab)

Sources: seagate.com