
Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance
$99.00
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Specification: Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance
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8 reviews for Seagate SkyHawk 4TB Surveillance
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Charles C. –
Pros: Huge capacity 7200 rpm Giant cache Cons: Missing two mounting holes Overall Review: This behemoth hard drive from Seagate specifically targets the video surveillance user. Seagate’s new “Guardian Series” drives feature high MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), RVS (Rotational Vibration Sensors), huge amounts of cache, 7200 rpm spindle speed, and high workload ratings. The SkyHawk in particular also boasts enhanced ImagePerfect™ firmware. The series overall seems aimed at home or small…
john m. –
Pros: The Seagate Skyhawk 6TB Is meant for DVR Applications, Where the drive will be writing data constantly. It seems to be a well made drive, It has some weight to it, It weighs in at 24.9oz, It has a 256MB Cache, Which is important for those situations where you need to copy data off of your DVR at the same time it has to continue recording. I first installed this Drive in my desktop pc so i could perform benchmarks on it. And it performed well. Maximum HD Tune Read speed of 208MB/s &…
Aaron B. –
Pros: That the drive is optimized for 24/7 operation is reassuring. I have only used the drive a short while, but it is doing duty recording 4 video sources, mixed between mpeg2 and mp4 with no hiccups at all. The 4TB size is a constraint on my current system, so this drive is perfect. (You may have a similar constraint, so check your system before buying larger version) I’ve noted also, that transferring large files to the drive is snappy — so this drive may be also be a good choice for a…
Clayton P. –
Pros: What I noticed immediately about this hard drive is that I heard nothing. It is absolutely the quietest hard drive I’ve owned. In the 20+ days in service, I’ve experienced no issues. That is typical of Seagate drives that I’ve used over the years, with my only failures occurring out of the box, or around the 3-year mark. My failures have all been with desktop models, not server/nas or surveillance models. With any given build, the intellectual capital available should never be spent…
Craig B. –
Pros: – This Skyhawk is probably one of the quietest drives I have ever used. – While they will work just fine in desktop computers, they are optimized for high-performance continuous write operations vs. reads. – With some testing this drive has sustained throughput of 239MB/s write and 240MB/s read for me. – The drive was extremely cool while running in the PC, so it confirmed to me that it does use NAS ball bearings and motors. – I tried this out in my pc, in my macbook pro, in a dvr, &…
Matthew H. –
Pros: I’m using in a stand-alone system with four 3-megapixel IP cameras recording at 1080p at 30fps. No motion detection so it’s guzzling a lot of HD footage at once. I used to have only a single 1TB hard drive in it and would hold only about a week of footage (at most). Now this 8TB drive has been installed for 2 weeks and it’s ~30% full. Giant, fat, 8TB drive optimized for DVR. Should work well in things like TiVo in addition to standard surveillance systems. Plays back fast. I can seek,…
Dustin H. –
Pros: Comes packaged as a bare drive, I can’t imagine somebody who is buying a surveillance drive, but doesn’t already have a chassis for the drive, or a spare sata cable, so this just means it’s less packaging for me to throw away. +1 Crystal disk mark results were better than I anticipated for a drive that is focused on surveillance 185 MB/s read/write for sequential, and .53 read, and 1.88 write for 4k. I added this drive to my existing storage pool (windows 10 storage spaces) for media…
Michael B. –
Pros: Sequential performance is good. I measured (sequential Read/Write aka Verify) of: ~190 MB/sec (Outside Diameter – empty), ~155 MB/sec (Middle Diameter – half full), ~85 MB/sec (Inside Diameter – full). The ST3000VX010 is the 3TB capacity point of this series of Seagate drives. I also own the 1TB version (ST1000VX005). Capacity points of: 2TB (ST2000VX008), 4TB (ST4000VX007), 6TB (ST6000VX0023), and 8TB (ST8000VX0022) are also available. The device internally has three Disks and five…