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Seagate · Surveillance drive · ST10000VE001

Seagate SkyHawk AI 10TB

A surveillance drive, made for CCTV recorders that write video all day, and Seagate gives it no NAS bay rating.

Capacity
10 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
5 years
Workload
550 TB/yr
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • A CCTV recorder (NVR or DVR)
  • 5 years' warranty

Not for

  • A NAS (Seagate gives it no NAS rating)
  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Should you buy the SkyHawk AI 10 TB?

If you're filling a camera recorder, this is what it's made for. 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. Seagate backs it for five years, which is a long time in drive terms.

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. Being 7,200 rpm, it's in the noisier, warmer class of drive, and you'll want it somewhere you don't sit.

Backblaze doesn't run enough of these for a failure rate we'd publish. Seagate's datasheet puts it at 28 dB idle and 32 dB seeking. Power draw is 7.4 W idle and 9 W working on Seagate's figures, or 65 kWh a year if it spends the whole year idling.